Up until last year, I had my 48x 18x 15 set up as a reef with a sump. I kept chaeto in the sump and lit it 24 hours to help with nutrient export. Fish included royal gramma, coral beauty, banggai cardinals, green chromis, yellow tang, firefish and percula clowns.


























Over 300 pictures of this project on my website detailing the set up from start to finish. I now have a nano, I will post details of that another day.

Mark

This post has been edited by Marksfish: Apr 23 2008, 03:57 PM

Very nice mark.. and great photography skills lol

Maybe one of these days, ill try out a salt water tank

Btw welcome to the site

Thank you for the welcome.
Photography skills? Don't forget corals stay almost still

Mark

I've been to saltwater for 8 years. I only kept fishes though not corals although it's really my dream to have that kind of setup. It's just too costly to maintain that's why I finally backed-out after losing my last salwater fish.

I found the most expensive part of the hobby was the electricity!! I had a 150w halide on 10 hours per day with two actinics, 4 powerheads in the main tank for flow, return pump and two 300w heaters. That was to keep low light loving corals too, although I think I could have got away with T5 lighting for what I have. My nano only has the supplied compact T5, but I don't have many corals in there, only my clowns and a leather now.

Mark

Beautiful beautiful beautiful. I've been thinking about getting out of FHs to get a nice reef setup.... but i guess it'll be a while.

I like Mandarin Gobies. Your setup's quite established. I guess they can survive in there? Yay?



This post has been edited by naminator: Apr 24 2008, 11:39 AM

My set up was about 18 months old before I stripped it down, with about 25kgs of live rock in total. I never had a mandarin as I had heard they can be difficult to get to feed, although I know others who culture their own copepods to feed regularly. Beautiful fish though.

Mark