Also posted in uk forum cos I don’t know which one uk reefers are watching

Jimbhoy13 · May 25, 2020

Hi UK reefers. Hope everyone is keeping well in these troubled times.
Not much discussion from our side of the world so I thought I would check in to see how you all are.
Really hoping we can get a bit of a chat going to open the UK forums a little more. Myself I’m a bit jealous of what seems to be the massive tanks a lot have in the US.
How about we make a start with what we are working with? Or what we would like
I have a modest AquaOne 180 (about 40 gallons) which has been a great start to the salty world but I would love to move up to maybe a Waterbox Reef 130.4.
Cheers all
Jim

SPR1968 · Jun 11, 2020

Hi Jim

ive got a couple of relatively large tanks, but we can’t seem to get much activity on the specific UK forums, I think many including myself are involved in R2R in general.

Mark Bradley · Jun 15, 2020

Hi - relatively new to the Marine side hobby with a Reefer 170. Only just heard about the UK forum - seems to be hard to get us, on this side of the pond, using forums - swing has been towards social media sites like FB

attiland · Jul 22, 2020

Jimbhoy13 said:
Hi UK reefers. Hope everyone is keeping well in these troubled times.
Not much discussion from our side of the world so I thought I would check in to see how you all are.
Really hoping we can get a bit of a chat going to open the UK forums a little more. Myself I’m a bit jealous of what seems to be the massive tanks a lot have in the US.
How about we make a start with what we are working with? Or what we would like
I have a modest AquaOne 180 (about 40 gallons) which has been a great start to the salty world but I would love to move up to maybe a Waterbox Reef 130.4.
Cheers all
Jim

About 3 months ago I have started to converting the same aquarium to saltwater too. I have started with dry rock and live sand + dr Tim’s live bacteria. I have now got 6 little fish some snails and hermit crabs there. Waiting for new light units. Doing well so fare.

SPR1968 · Jul 22, 2020

attiland said:
About 3 months ago I have started to converting the same aquarium to saltwater too. I have started with dry rock and live sand + dr Tim’s live bacteria. I have now got 6 little fish some snails and hermit crabs there. Waiting for new light units. Doing well so fare.

Looks good so far, very nice!

Jimbhoy13 · Jul 22, 2020

Good to hear from people from uk. I’ve finally got my Waterbox 130.4. Build thread has been started. Comments, advice, constructive criticism welcome.

attiland · Jul 22, 2020

Something to watch then. I am following their advice and so fare it didn’t let me down. https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/video/category/5-minute-saltwater-aquarium-guide
I am sure will make my mistake(s) as it is really hard to wait for so many months for the first corals etc.

Jimbhoy13 · Jul 22, 2020

Mark Bradley said:
Hi - relatively new to the Marine side hobby with a Reefer 170. Only just heard about the UK forum - seems to be hard to get us, on this side of the pond, using forums - swing has been towards social media sites like FB

Yes it’s a shame. We don’t seem to have the big shows and competitions that America has. Or the massive choices of corals.

Jimbhoy13 · Jul 22, 2020

SPR1968 said:
Hi Jim

ive got a couple of relatively large tanks, but we can’t seem to get much activity on the specific UK forums, I think many including myself are involved in R2R in general.

Yeh. I would like it if we had the big aquarium shows like America has. Would love it if we had something like Magna here.