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[joey]

hey guys

got my actinic globes today from iquatics online and thought id take a video for anyone who can stand my bad filming skills haha



BIG thanks to Simon for this marine tank
tomorrow im going to give it a full blown clean, and aquascape it better (hopefully). ill put a picture up tomorrow night for anyone interested

cheers
Joe

Edited by joey, 19 November 2011 - 06:23 PM.

[Riggers]

Looking really nice mate, don't clean too much you don't want to get rid of any good stuff that's a lovely coral banded shrimp too, good job ey

Cheers
Nick

[CBS CRS RCS]

looks beautiful

[joey]

cheers guys

[joey]

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just a quick update, cleaned the tank, scrubbed a few rocks and changed the layout.

cheers
Joe

[Riggers]

Hey Joe have a look at the bbcode for the correct way to embed a YouTube video

Cheers
Nick

[klass]

I'm jelly! looks great mate. Marine tanks are so interesting, got to read up and start one, one day. Teach me!! Lol I here MASA is the place to start? (Correct me if i'm wrong)

Cheers

[joey]

masa is a great place to start, theres like a sub forum in masa called MASWA. <<< its west australian based

this is something ive learned. Dont let the fear of something being hard stop you from doing it, marine tanks are actually easily maintained if your well organised

Edited by joey, 18 October 2011 - 12:00 AM.

[Riggers]

To true Joe I was a bit daunted by marine tanks to start with purely because I didn't know enough to start one confidently, I've had marine for around 18 months now and I find the key is research but even this gets hard as we still have so much to learn about the ocean did you know in the last few years 6000 new species have been catalogued in Australian waters alone!! And some of these species were found in places were people frequent like shallow reef areas I'll find the article and post some excerpts up for ya

Cheers
Nick

[joey]

sweet that sounds good,
yeh theres definitely not as much information on keeping marine tanks as there is freshwater.
I guess thats what makes it fun haha, i bet theres alot of things you learn on your own.

[Riggers]

Yeah Joe the majority of what I have learnt so far is from setting up a tank and observing things in different conditions I have heaps of time on my hands for the next few months if you ever want to pop in and play tanks I'd be grateful for the company and we can do some experimenting too lol

[joey]

ill just get these last few exams out of the road and ill come round

i get my license at the very start of feb so ill be way more mobile in a few months

[Riggers]

nice one joe

[Gareth]

Looking good mate, What have u got running on it, (filters, lights) etc...

Any idea how much it has cost u to get it to the stage its at?

Gareth

[joey]

its got a sump running with the skimmer in the sump, not really sure what skimmer it is though.
its got 4 HOT5 lights, 2 actinic blue and 2 just white.
other than the electricity bill, its all been free ,

Joe

[Riggers]

Wait till you get a beast marine tank and synergy remove your liver to cover the bill hahaha

[joey]

hahahaha

[joey]

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update,
changed a few things in the tank around. Added some more rock and corals.
excuse the algae haha, pretty hard to get on top of at the moment. Invested in a mini clean up crew (snails) from Nick to try help with the algae.
other than that its all going well.

Joe

[Gareth]

Thats pimping Joey...Looks the goods mate

[Riggers]

Lookin good mate Vinnie has a couple of MH's for sale ey, if you wanna have a look into upgrading your lights.