The Adrine Project

Lasse · Aug 9, 2019

She have seen it but does not know that she will have it later on. She lives in the south of Sweden - not up here so much.

Sincerely Lasse

Lasse · Aug 10, 2019

With this thread I want to show an easy way to start a small and simple reef aquarium without too much hocus pocus, It is in line with the methods for larger aquarium outlined in this post by @Sallstrom. The secret is the amount of food you put in and that you have CUC already from the beginning. Using sand and rocks from an old aquarium give you the bacterial start culture you need and to use some old water give you a better water from a biological point of view - it is not so pure chemical that 100% newly done salt water is. As you can see in my posts - the ugly phase has been very short - if any.

I start the first week with some, very, very few, frozen artemia every third day, second week - the same amount every second day and now every day slowly arising the amount.

Sincerely Lasse

najer · Aug 10, 2019

Late to the party as always, my s tank (52litres aio) was set up and stocked inside 24 hours, 75% water and all rocks and residents from the big tank, half saved old sand half new, love this! :)

Lasse · Aug 10, 2019

Day 20

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Lasse · Aug 13, 2019

Day 23

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Mortie31 · Aug 13, 2019

Is anyone else having trouble viewing Lasses videos on there iPad?

Lasse · Aug 13, 2019

These short videos is not on Youtube - they are uploaded direct to R2R. I can see that they sometimes stop and load too. They are .mov files - should work on Apples products. After one month or two I will do a longer video with these short videos - showing how easy it is to start a SW aquarium ;)

Sincerely Lasse

NY_Caveman · Aug 14, 2019

Mortie31 said:
Is anyone else having trouble viewing Lasses videos on there iPad?

It is a known issue. The direct loads do not work on iOS devices.

Lasse · Aug 16, 2019

Day 26

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Lasse · Aug 24, 2019

Day 34 - Youtube this time

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Lasse · Sep 13, 2019

A Youtube clip - day 60 (around)

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Lasse · Sep 13, 2019

It is early in the morning but now I think I have the right video in the right thread - but how knows :D

Sincerely Lasse

Cuzuco · Oct 10, 2019

Hi Lasse,

I am curious to know how is this tank doing after 3 months or so?

Lasse · Oct 10, 2019

Cuzuco said:
Hi Lasse,

I am curious to know how is this tank doing after 3 months or so?

For the first time in my 13 years with starting small aquariums have I run into some smaller problems with Cyanobacteria in the sand. As you can see in my video above - the sand is rather brown but not a sign of red Cyanobacteria. A week later (around Sept 20) I notice red Cyanobacteria in the sand. As usually - I add some NO3 to the water and did a water test of NO3 and PO4 a week later. It show up that I had low PO4 as well. I add some PO4 too. During this time (since I notice the red plague) I stir the sand at least once a day too.

There is two things that I have done different this time - I have used a much more effective light and no WC during this first three months. The AI Prime is very effective and I have run it for 14 hours and for 100% during at least 4 hours a day.

Four days ago I change the light to be active during only 8 hours and highest intensity for 3 hours. I also activated a long (30 days) acclimation period with start at 70% reduction of the white and 50 % for the others.

Things looks a little bit better now but I going to do a 20 % WC (using water from my other tank) this evening. Things looks much better now.

And I have got another fish too - Bathygobius meggitti

Sincerely Lasse

TheHarold · Oct 10, 2019

People will get mad that you added an anemone before 6 months! Lol

Mortie31 · Oct 10, 2019

Lasse said:
For the first time in my 13 years with starting small aquariums have I run into some smaller problems with Cyanobacteria in the sand. As you can see in my video above - the sand is rather brown but not a sign of red Cyanobacteria. A week later (around Sept 20) I notice red Cyanobacteria in the sand. As usually - I add some NO3 to the water and did a water test of NO3 and PO4 a week later. It show up that I had low PO4 as well. I add some PO4 too. During this time (since I notice the red plague) I stir the sand at least once a day too.

There is two things that I have done different this time - I have used a much more effective light and no WC during this first three months. The AI Prime is very effective and I have run it for 14 hours and for 100% during at least 4 hours a day.

Four days ago I change the light to be active during only 8 hours and highest intensity for 3 hours. I also activated a long (30 days) acclimation period with start at 70% reduction of the white and 50 % for the others.

Things looks a little bit better now but I going to do a 20 % WC (using water from my other tank) this evening. Things looks much better now.

And I have got another fish too - Bathygobius meggitti

Sincerely Lasse

Looking great Lasse, settling in so well, is that a dancing shrimp?

Lasse · Oct 10, 2019

TheHarold said:
People will get mad that you added an anemone before 6 months! Lol

Yes - and I add it after 4 days :D And at work we add 50 + anemones to a one week old system - and the funny thing is that they are probably 60 + now - after around 5 months.

Sincerely Lasse