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Perth Local Species Tank

Started by Riggers, Jul 18 2011 03:26 AM

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#1 Riggers

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 03:26 AM

This is my weekend project

its just starting to clear up so i thought i would share a pic, all the fish you can find in perth local waters....

Fish...
Stripey Butterfly, Colony of 8 Adults
Yellow Tail King Fish, School of 12 juveniles
2 Silver Cardinals and im not sure what the red one is

Edit.... Added Stock Info

Edited by Riggertron, 18 July 2011 - 01:50 PM.

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#2 kinh

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 08:15 AM

Looks the goods!

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#3 Bowdy

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 09:12 AM

Looks great mate. What's in there.

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#4 aussiemcgee

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 10:55 AM

Perth waters??? but I cant see any hordes of hungry blowies!

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#5 Riggers

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 01:52 PM

Hahaha ill have to do a tank filled with seaweed and blowies ey mcgee

real Perth style...

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#6 waxy

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 03:41 PM

Im pretty sure those yellowtails are not juvy yellowtail kings but are a different species of yellowtail which only grow to about 250mm.
Would make good kingy live bait tho. We use them all the time.
The tank looks great man well done.

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#7 Riggers

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 04:25 PM

Aw cool cheers waxy

I'm really keen to learn more about the local species of Perth so any more info would be awesome

Thanks guys

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#8 Junglefish

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 04:41 PM

Niiiiiice

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#9 choombies

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 06:35 PM

Ive seen 40 kg yellow tail kings in a tank

Good on the chew!!

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#10 Peckoltia

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 07:27 PM

They are yellow tail scads. Great live bait.

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#11 MONSTAF1SH

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 07:45 PM

Cool!
I like it...

Why no sand?

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#12 Arcturus

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 08:52 PM

That's just awesome

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#13 CCA001

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 09:05 PM

Looking good M8

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#14 Niz

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Posted 19 July 2011 - 10:27 AM

The red fish looks like what we called as kids 'gobbly guts', heaps of them around the jetties in Claremont when I used to fish there around 1990.

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#15 Tarpon

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Posted 19 July 2011 - 01:13 PM

QUOTE (Niz @ Jul 19 2011, 12:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The red fish looks like what we called as kids 'gobbly guts', heaps of them around the jetties in Claremont when I used to fish there around 1990.

Red Fish is a Bullseye, short grey fish are Gobbleguts

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#16 Sarah Jayne

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Posted 19 July 2011 - 04:04 PM

Nice tank Nick. Looks really 'clean' & simple. What size tank is it? I'd be keen to see more pictures & close-ups.

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#17 Riggers

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Posted 19 July 2011 - 04:52 PM

Ita a standard 4x14x18, I now have a skimmer running as well and another piece of rock

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#18 Riggers

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Posted 19 July 2011 - 10:17 PM

QUOTE (MONSTAF1SH @ Jul 18 2011, 07:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Cool!
I like it...

Why no sand?

I dont have any sand because ive never kept a bare bottom tank before and im kinda liking the clean look with a little scattered sand

The aim of the tank is to see if i can keep a basic marine tank with minimal hardware and low running costs

so far this is everything
180lts salt water
3 pieces of live rock
500lt/hr 10W needle wheel protein skimmer
1000lt/hr 15W powerhead
2x54W T5 tubes 1x Coral Blue 1x sunlight white

Stock
Ive given a bunch of fish away to some mates and lost a couple of yellow tail so now its currently
5x Yellow Tail
5x Stripey Butterfly
3x Other fish haha
millions x Boxer Shrimp

Its nice and clear now and running smooth, the butterflys like to eat mysis and brine shrimp and "love" the marine green and the yellow tail get krill and prawn pieces, im not too sure really what the YT eat but they seems to like it