Welcome to my reef aquarium blog, I started keeping marines a couple of years ago after keeping tropicals for nearly 10 years.
I started off by converting my old Rekord 120 litre freshwater aquarium.I will give you some details on this to show you how I started out and got trully bitten by the bug and aim to build a 100 gallon reef tank.
Current Spec
I took a bit of work to upgrade my current tank from tropical to marines so I decided to go all the way and make it a reef tank!
Although it being small and lessening the risk of loosing loads of money,it still took time and dedication.
My tank is from my local fish store and although it has gone through many changes.
The capacity is still only 125 litres making it a Nano tank.
Using the berlin system with a small amount of sand about 25 kilo's of live rock and an Instant Ocean 800 skimmer, although i know this is overkill it was recommended by a shop, more of a quick sale from the shop as i didn't know what it even was or why I needed it but it does a great job. This skimmer had one problem, the pump in the tank, It took up loads of space so i decided to get a hang on back refugium to stick it in along with the heater.
A resun wavemaker powerhead for flow and a T5's with twin white and actinic tubes 39watts each mounted on top of the tank shining through the open flaps.
Fish
2 percula clown
2 yellow tailed damsell
1 dot dash blenny
1 Javanese damsel fish
2 chromis
Inverts
cleaner shrimp
blue legged hermits
Red legged hermit crabs
Corals
Xenia
various mushrooms
Zoanthids
Green star polyps
euphillyia
pallythoas
Feather Dusters
You can see it on the link at top of page
