My indo rimless 5ft reef tank the big 40 bday pressie

[fishguy242]

site is going in and out for me..you?

 

[najer]

Very nice setup.

 

[Hellybell80]

A little clip from last month.


The bright green algae on the rocks was hard not fibrous at all. Lasted a while then coraline algae started to form.

 

[Hellybell80]

that 6 line just eyeballing you

Yea he was in the old tank he decided he wanted to learn to carpet surf... unfortunately he didnt realize that the teeth of death ie my dog. Was ready to swallow whole as he landed.;Vomit

 

[Hellybell80]

site is going in and out for me..you?

My internet is playing up today. So it keeps jumping me out.

 

[fishguy242]

Yea he was in the old tank he decided he wanted to learn to carpet surf... unfortunately he didnt realize that the teeth of death ie my dog. Was ready to swallow whole as he landed.;Vomit

all of them...

 

[Hellybell80]

Ok pic heavy... stock corals and fish.

 

[Hellybell80]

all of them...

Haha

 

[fishguy242]

Ok pic heavy... stock corals and fish.

wow awesome rockin that tank

 

[Hellybell80]

wow awesome rockin that tank

Thank you. I'm happy so far. It's all kind of stable. Just sorting my mag out.
Corals just keep growing.

 

[fishguy242]

just keep on with what your doing..don't chase them numbers

 

[Hellybell80]

just keep on with what your doing..don't chase them numbers

Trust me I'm not

 

[Hellybell80]

I got the ekoral doser almost a week ago and have been running it with fauna marin light balling solutions. So far so good.
Now I'm nowhere tech savvy and it took a few blue words to set it up. Mainly because I got it wrong plus I have never used a doser before only manually added, to get it up and working.
The gent I got it from was great showed me how to set it up and keep it running.
Wow I wished I got a doser last year! So much easier when you know how to work it.

 

[Hellybell80]

To be honest the one clown came with the first tank with a little black clown. (Emmo as we called him was lost to a tank crash I had in the 100litre) he looked like a common clown but the longer he stayed and looked after my zoa garden the blacker he became .he went from this

To this

And now he has loads more black on him.

 

[Hellybell80]

When I first had the old tank it had a small amount of monti on it.
I added a few more bits to the old tank (they were dipped as they had bugs on them) then carried them over to the new one when I set it up.
They were growing ok but when the lights went out I could see a white line. At first I thought it was growth, but not was these...

Dipped again today with the fauna marin the dip. Not much came off in the dip though I did pick a load off.
Of course putting them back on the rock work with putty was a pain.. more pink putty rocks.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

So here I was walking around my local fish store back in Febuary, and there it was the indo rimless aquarium. The store had several set up with fresh and salt water. Not a brand I had heard of before,, but the store has a partnership with a company called cleair.
Now i couldn't find much information about these aquariums apart from what the store was advertising. The tanks on the shop floor all looked like a good build, and I started to visually move all my living room around to fit the 5ft tank in .

My son was with me and took pity.... I made sure I was making puppy dog eyes.... it worked haha he bought me the aquarium. Isnt that what grown up kids are for? Giving you something back after years of looking after them ;Woot;Woot ha.

Now I have had a small 2ft marine tank for a year. Only about 100 litres give or take, so I had a little experience with a marine aquarium. Some good alot bad. The small volume wasnt the easiest and the guy I bought it off had no end of problems with the rocks and the livestock I had off of him as a whole unit. So I was hoping a larger volume of water would help somewhat.

The company I dealt with were quite helpful, even offered to set it up in my home plumbing it in and fill it for me with natural sea water (bonus no mixing litres of salt water at home). So naturally I took that deal, save my back and all that with lifting a 5ft tank.
The tank in store obviously set up for fresh water display

So the tank had to be ordered and was arriving in a week or so.
I ordered a return pump, skimmer, heaters and one TMC wave machine as I wanted to attach a RFG to the return.
Then ordered my rocks... purse was getting lighter..

Looks great and so does the aquarium, neat how it's raised on one side

 

[Sleeping Giant]

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Ok so the big day came ;Happy;Happy
The lads that delivered it were quite efficient. Got it through the house and in place with no issues.
Wished I had paid a little more attention to them actually plumbing it in though. But looking at it afterwards it dosnt look a complicated plumb.
I wanted to get my rocks in first before the water but they had another set up to get to , so they added the water before my sand and rocks.

I used live sand... it was all they had. Two bags covered it though and I didnt want it too deep.
Not enough rock though so my finger slipped on the buy button of more marco rock.

I created loads of caves, a safe haven for fish. Wasnt happy with the left hand rock as it was a little high. But kept with it for now.

Looks better in your living room, good scaping

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Ok pic heavy... stock corals and fish.

Great job, everything looks good... loving the zoa colonies

 

[Hellybell80]

Great job, everything looks good... loving the zoa colonies

Thank you. Since transferring the ones I already had and the additional they are all growing really well. But always room for more over time

 

[Hellybell80]

Coral frag pics.
Jac o lantern.

My sun coral just starting to poke out to feed.