Tank Journal Archive

[mcclown]

I spent the weekend working on the electronics, so I'd be ready to fill the tank...and yesterday I was finally ready to drop into Aquaristics and grab everything I needed.

My haul...I'm very happy that I borrowed this trolley from work!

Finally starting to look like something. Aquaristics didn't have a lot of live rock, so I'll have to pick up more, once they get more in stock. They said this chunk should be good to get the cycle started.

Here's the sump filled and ready to go ( I hadn't set the skimmer height yet, in this photo.

FTS

I'm pretty happy with how it looks so far. I'm hoping to pick up a slightly bigger piece of live rock soon before I really start aquascaping. We've got a few hitchhikers, two 1cm wide snails, a small crab, two small sea urchins and a collection of spikey tentacle things, which I'm thinking may be a bristle star...not sure how many will make it through the cycle but I've got my *fingers crossed* :)

 

[Ben Daley]

Awesome, such a good feeling to fill a new tank. :)

 

[Jacques Pels]

Looks great... good luck.

 

[Mattres]

Nice! The fun begins!

 

[mcclown]

Yeah... Hopefully :-)

I've definitely identified the tentacle monster as a brittle star, as it can out of the rock this evening. Rather than having 1 though, I seem to have 8-10 of them. Does anyone have any idea if that will be an issue? Some of them are reasonably big...They range from about 3 cm across, up to, I'd guess, 8cm. Anyone know if they'll be an issue later?

 

[Mattres]

Yeah... Hopefully :)

I've definitely identified the tentacle monster as a brittle star, as it can out of the rock this evening. Rather than having 1 though, I seem to have 8-10 of them. Does anyone have any idea if that will be an issue? Some of them are reasonably big...They range from about 3 cm across, up to, I'd guess, 8cm. Anyone know if they'll be an issue later?

The bristle stars will be fine unless of course their green. The green ones can get quite large and sometimes snack on fish.

I know you said you were gonna get more rock but I quite like the 1 rock theme you got going. Like a nice little ocean bommie! Just a thought :D

 

[mcclown]

The bristle stars will be fine unless of course their green. The green ones can get quite large and sometimes snack on fish.

I know you said you were gonna get more rock but I quite like the 1 rock theme you got going. Like a nice little ocean bommie! Just a thought :D
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I'm of two minds... We'll have to see how I feel as the tank progresses.