My First Marine Tank (Deep Dive)

[Ducks]

Here is my first dip into the marine aquarium world. I have had a couple of freshwater tanks before but always was scared off doing a marine. It's been a pretty fun ride thus far and seems to have gone really well. Below are some pics. Goes against what most will say about doing things too quickly, but it's worked out for my tank thus far.

Really looking forward to next looking while!

Peninsula 650
AI HD52 (3)
Maxspec Gyre 250 (2 - 1 horizontal, one vertical)
Refugium with an eBay grow light and caeto
NYOS Quantum 220 skimmer
1kg of carbon in filter bag
100 micron filter socks (felt)

Damsel
Powder Brown Tang
Sailfin Tang
Pufferfish
Scopus Tang
coral banded shrimp (2)
Chromis (4)
Cleaner wrasse
Copperband butterfly

3 torch corals
1 frogspawn
Pink Goni
Ultra Goni
Pink Hammer
Elegance coral
Mixed SPS frags
Xenia
Fungias

1.025 gravity
8.3 PH
25 temp
149ppm Alk
460 Calc
1300 Mag
2ppm Nitrates
O.000 phosphates


What it looks like as at yesterday Dec 28

Nov 14

Dec 2

Dec 4

Dec 10

Dec 20

Dec 28 - obligatory actinic tank shot [emoji3]

Test kits etc

Under Tank

 

[Leslie Tabor]

Beautiful tank!

 

[Ducks]

Beautiful tank!

Thanks Leslie [emoji3] it was a few months of planning and then a few months of waiting for the tank and equipment to arrive. Cycled with Dr Tim's (best thing ever) and a lot of support from my LFS Gallery Aquatica (best corals in Brisbane)

 

[justinm]

Things look great! Love the aquascape!

 

[Mal11224]

Great looking tank.

 

[Ducks]

Things look great! Love the aquascape!

Thanks [emoji3] spent several weeks whilst waiting for the tank putting together base rock and real reef rock pieces . It's 4 sections of rock put together [emoji3]

 

[Big G]

Welcome to R2R! Beautiful slice of the sea.

 

[Ducks]

Welcome to R2R! Beautiful slice of the sea.

Thanks G, good to be here [emoji3]

 

[NY_Caveman]

Agreed. Great aquascape. Love seeing both long sides.

 

[Sfplaya1]

Very beautiful aquascape!

 

[Paleozoic_reefer]

Excellent job on the aquascaping!!

 

[Ducks]

Agreed. Great aquascape. Love seeing both long sides.

Thanks Caveman, still have to put corals on the other side, but firstly wanted to fit out the main viewing side. Some furniture rearranging is next on the list to make the tank the focal point for the lounge area [emoji3]

 

[Ducks]

Excellent job on the aquascaping!!

Thanks reefer! Took a few weeks and there is still room for adding more height if I needed and the scape is in 4 sections so not too difficult to move bits around. Still have a box full of real reef rock and some plates to use if I get the squascape itch!

 

[Ducks]

Very beautiful aquascape!

Thanks Playa! Wanted the branches to be off centre and it's a bit hard to see from the pics but there is a nice cove near the torch and grass (don't know what it is called) rock which adds some depth when you look at it

 

[revhtree]

It's already beautiful! Welcome!

 

[chefjpaul]

Great job!

 

[Ducks]

It's already beautiful! Welcome!

Thanks Revh!

 

[Ducks]

Great job!

Thanks Chef! Now just waiting to actually see the shrimp instead of just their antennae all the time lol

 

[NY_Caveman]

How do you like the gyre? Do you feel you get flow all through? It is so nice and open with lots of swim room.

 

[Ducks]

How do you like the gyre? Do you feel you get flow all through? It is so nice and open with lots of swim room.

Gyre is amazing. Unfortunately I don't have the experience that others have with using all different types of equipment; but it is truly phrnomenal. I have mine set to the low tide high tide cycle and top at 80% and low at 20% and there are huge amounts of water being pushed around. There is a mix of LPS and some SPS frags and the balance seems to be good for the corals and fish. Would highly recommend buying a set of you are thinking about it [emoji3]