My Seahorse Tank

[Mark J]

As you may know, im in the process of setting up a little seahorse tank.
Tank is 36x18x15, no sump, no chemistry lab hidden in the stand etc :rolleyes:

At the moment, the tank is full and salted up with a layer of Aragmax sugerfine sand on the base (be clever to have it on the rear glass thats for sure! :D)
I have got 1 small lump of LR donated from my mate to help kickstart the cycle and to get a few bits of life in there.
Already have spotted a few pods, tiny bristles, and a few tiny snails happily writing thier names on the glass (can see where theyve been because of the thin film of sand dust thats settled on the glass etc)

Just ordered some Indonesian LR which should be here on Tuesday, so once that is in and the resulting dust cloud has settled from disturbing the sand bed etc, i'll get some piccies on the go ;)

Mark.

[Tetley]

Hi Mark,

Nice project, pictures are required as always please. :D

ATB

[Tangman]

Come on Mark get them pics up we want to see your new project m8. By the way are you coming to our Reef Meet at Macca's on the 4 April, i hope you can make it its ages since i last saw you at Steve Cs at Hull. :D Eric

[Gillybaby]

Oooo, imo this is the most exciting part of a tank build. All those possibilities. And a nice simple tank to boot. You don't need all the gizmos to have a great looking balanced tank :D

[TerraC]

if you need any sand or cheato to kick it off m8 just gimme a shout. :D

[celtic fish]

hmm i eagerly await how you get on:D

[Mark J]

Come on Mark get them pics up we want to see your new project m8. By the way are you coming to our Reef Meet at Macca's on the 4 April, i hope you can make it its ages since i last saw you at Steve Cs at Hull. :D Eric

Would love to Eric, but will no doubt be hard at work on that day! (shame as I could have picked up some snails n crabs while there as I do intend to be ordering some in a few weeks once the new LR gets here and has settled a bit etc.)


if you need any sand or cheato to kick it off m8 just gimme a shout. TerraC

Anything that has got pods n stuff in is always welcome Ray, give us a shout if your over this side of the Willy Wonka chocolate river :D Maybe you'll be over here when im not working lol!

Piccies coming soon guys (will prob put one up later this evening even though theres not much to see lol!)

Mark

[Mark J]

Ok guys, heres the first piccy of my upcoming seahorse tank.

Ignore the Prizm skimmer, thats only there while it will be cycling and main reason is not for skimming as such, but ive just used it to wedge a lump of filter wool into one of the compartments to polish the water as the suger fine sand turns the tank to milk when first put in and the wool cleared it up with a day or so.
Only got 1 Maxijet 600 Ph in the tank, and for seahorses that will be more than enough by the looks of it as it had the nozzle mod done to it when I had my old reef tank.

The little solitary lump of LR has done what I wanted it to in that it has brought in some needed life, just waiting now to get the rest of my LR so I can get it nicely aquascaped (nice to be able to be able to rearrange it to get it how I want it without worrying any fish or risking squashing snails or crabs etc lol!)

Also, fingers crossed, my Luminaire light unit will be here this week too! so then I can get some light in there.


http://homepage.ntlworld.com/reef-junky/seahorse/sh-tank1.jpg

Mark.

[TerraC]

great start m8. i'll check works itinery m8 and see if I can get over your way in the next week or so. if not i'll get you some in the post..

[Mark J]

great start m8. i'll check works itinery m8 and see if I can get over your way in the next week or so. if not i'll get you some in the post..

Cool That will be great :) It's been way to long since I had any fishy visitors lol!!!! Will seem strange though when you walk in and DONT see the big reef tank when you walk through the door lol! I know it took me AGES to get used to it NOT been there :(

Mark.

[Mark J]

Ok, got my LR the other day :D
So time for a piccy (scuse crap quality and the idiot in the reflection ;))
Also added some black trim around the top and bottom to tidy the notso nice areas up too :)

[oakwell]

i dont think the tank is big enough to house the person in the tank ..reckon he will quickly out grow it!!

Seriously looking good keep the piccys coming mate

[stevieh]

looking good mark, keep the pics comeing. stevie

[callum_parsons]

very nice mate;)
dont forget to keep us updated

[Mark J]

Ordered a dozen micro blue legs and 30 small astrea's (12 for me, 18 for my mate) from the parent website to this forum, so am now itching to get them so we've got something to watch lol! (pods n the like are ok for a while) wish it was earlier in the week as then wouoldnt have to wait until at least tuesday for them to arrive (as with it been late in the week and I didnt notice he had the snails in stock until JUST before 5pm sob sob lol)

[mousehunter22]

looks realy nice cant wait to see it with stock in!!

[Gillybaby]

Its amazing how excited you can get over some tiny little critters ;)

Like the liverock you got, great shapes. Its gonna look awesome once you get the horses :D

[Mark J]

Finally got my lights this week so can actually see into the tank easily now :)

the light unit is a 2 tube T5 unit (Arcadia) which I got (inc tubes) for £35 inc postage from fleabay :D

Also good excuse for a bit better quality pic compared to the previous one lol!

[Tangman]

Hi Mark thats looking good now m8y i cant wait to see the Seahorses in there swimming about:D Eric

[Tetley]

Hi Mark,

Looks really nice, love the rocks you have, some seriously nice shapes. :) :)

ATB

[Kev]

Can't wait to see stock piccies!

[Mark J]

Hi Mark thats looking good now m8y i cant wait to see the Seahorses in there swimming about:D Eric

you and me both lol! should look really nice.

In the process of looking for someone who has some Halmida (sp??) and some other nice Macro's to start stocking in the tank, Seen some on fleabay and online here n there but holy hell! some of the prices are mad especially as its just macro algae lol!

[Mark J]

Hi Mark,

Looks really nice, love the rocks you have, some seriously nice shapes. :) :)

ATB

the one on the right is really nice, a large natural cave shape with a small exit arch at the back, even spotted a nice little Xmas tree fan wormy thing on it too the other day.

[Mark J]

Can't wait to see stock piccies!

yeah, planning on possibly having a shrimp/goby pairing too as theyre not gonna be too boisterous in a seahorse tank.

Hopefully, Mtec will have the mega deal on the peppermints again in the future as a pair of them will go nicely too (also poss pair cleaner shrimp) as when they breed etc, its lots of free yummy food for the horses :)

[Mark J]

Ok guys,

popped into our LFS yesterday JUST FOR A LOOK :rolleyes: and came away with these :D

[stegoodall]

looking very nice, i'm sure they will be happy in your tank, it looks great!

[Tetley]

Hi Mark,

Looking seriously nice. :)

Has feeding been a issue?, just thought little and often was recommended, and I would suspect work will get in the way ?

ATB

[Tangman]

Looking good there Mark, you need some sea grass in for the horses to hang on to so they dont float about.:D Eric

[Kev]

Lovely looking creatures and nice photo's too.

[TerraC]

looking good m8. nice to see some livestock in there :D

[Archer]

Fantastic looking creatures:)

[boshank23]

lovely looking tank that bud! i think thats my next venture.....the world of sea horses!

[Zeus]

Looking good there Mark, you need some sea grass in for the horses to hang on to so they dont float about.:D Eric

Echo that Mark. I have read that they can get stressed if they can't hang on to something.

Great setup and some lovely animals as well.

Campbell

[Blue]

Lookin good, keep up the good work, they should be very happy in there :)

[Mark J]

Thanks guys,
I did try to post a reply the other day but got disconnected b4 it sent (ARGH! lol)

as for feeding, theyre doing well, as our LFS wlil not sell them unless they are feeding on frozen Mysys and theyre having no probs finding pods and the like in the tank as its teeming with them.

Will be gettin more stuff for them to hang onto as soon as I can find anything etc, but bit sparse around here unfortunately, but they have plenty of places to hook onto as got some nice shaped bits of rock etc.

will post some more pics when I get some more macro's etc.

Will definately have to plan a trip over to see you at MT sometime soon as I was wishing I could have popped in wheile we were working in Hull last week, but we were soooo busy and also it wasnt our van so couldnt really get the builder to stop off etc.

[Mark J]

Slight update.

Ive taken the seahorses back to the lfs as to be honest, they looked lost in the tank (only a 3 foot tank too!!!) so were going to be swapping them for a larger species that wont be as lost in the tank.

Will be picking the new ones up on Tuesday (well, Suz will as i'll be at work taking down the large conservatory at the Winter Gardens as its going to be all flattened so one of Cleethorpes's more well known buildings will be gone! Apparently, was a well known venue for the northern soul stuff and during the punk era I believe the Sex Pistols even played there along with many a well known singers/groups over the years !)

Anyhows, will post some pics of the new residents once we get them and theyre settled in :)

[moorish]

looking good mark,keep us all updated.derek

[Archer]

Slight update.

Ive taken the seahorses back to the lfs as to be honest, they looked lost in the tank (only a 3 foot tank too!!!) so were going to be swapping them for a larger species that wont be as lost in the tank.

Will be picking the new ones up on Tuesday (well, Suz will as i'll be at work taking down the large conservatory at the Winter Gardens as its going to be all flattened so one of Cleethorpes's more well known buildings will be gone! Apparently, was a well known venue for the northern soul stuff and during the punk era I believe the Sex Pistols even played there along with many a well known singers/groups over the years !)

Anyhows, will post some pics of the new residents once we get them and theyre settled in :)

What species were they and what ones are you getting? They look like Fuscus??

[Mark J]

now youve got me! our lfs has told me a few times what species they are etc, but old age has made my brain give up on remembering the bloody names lol!

I WILL get the species name of the new ones AND I will be writing it in stone lol!

[Mark J]

YAY!!! Got the new seahorses and theyre MUCH better!

A lot more active than the other ones (well, the old male was a right lazy git, spent 23 out of the 24 hours asleep)

Will grab some pics of them later as got to put them on my pc, then over to the lappy to upload (as not got Internet sorted yet)

[callum_parsons]

wow looking cool nice pics

[Blue]

Nice 1 , will wait to see then :) :) :)