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.




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.