Hello all, thought it was time I show my sw tank that I have at home.
This tank came about as a result of an emergency of sorts. I had a 65g homemade hackjob breeding tank that I was using to keep 4 scats that I had gotten as a rehome from a petstore. I was doing some reading up on how to get them to be a sw fish. I came home one night to find that a leaky pipe had caused the plaster roof to fall in just missing my brackish tank by 2 inches. So in a mad rush I did a fast tank flip and turned a 60g homemade tank I bought from a guy who used to use it keep pondfish in over the winter into a fast sw tank.
I took some dead live rock that I had picked up from someone elses shut down sw set up, the sand from the brackish tank and basically threw together a full salinity set up using the filter and water from the brackish tank. I thought what the heck, from what I have read scats are a hardy fish they should do the pull and I took the salinity from 1.012 to 1.022.
What surprised me was that rather than gasping these fish immediately perked up both in color and activity.
I added a magnum hob with biowheel filter to double the filter capacity, and used seachem nitrabsorb in the hob, watched the water quality and to my surprise lost noone.
Presently I have a engineer goby I got for free that is about 12 inches, 4 scats, 2 domino damsel and 2 green damsel and a real bad attitude purple lobster who has eaten 3 of my other fish. I also have some hermits and snails in there. I tried some corals but the scats ate them, feather dusters and they ate them too.
I will take a couple of better shots of the tank before and after I move it upstairs. The glass has not been kept totally clean from salt creep but I do regular water maintenance on it, when I move it upstairs.
My son shamus was totally enthralled with my brackish tank I just moved upstairs I can not wait to see his reaction when he sees this one ESPECIALLY THE ENGINEER GOBY. I will be redoing it in a black siliconed 75g tall. I will be adding a good 2-3 inches of sand to the tank to give it a depth of 4 inches
edit(the engineer goby was blind in the one eye when I got him)
This tank came about as a result of an emergency of sorts. I had a 65g homemade hackjob breeding tank that I was using to keep 4 scats that I had gotten as a rehome from a petstore. I was doing some reading up on how to get them to be a sw fish. I came home one night to find that a leaky pipe had caused the plaster roof to fall in just missing my brackish tank by 2 inches. So in a mad rush I did a fast tank flip and turned a 60g homemade tank I bought from a guy who used to use it keep pondfish in over the winter into a fast sw tank.
I took some dead live rock that I had picked up from someone elses shut down sw set up, the sand from the brackish tank and basically threw together a full salinity set up using the filter and water from the brackish tank. I thought what the heck, from what I have read scats are a hardy fish they should do the pull and I took the salinity from 1.012 to 1.022.
What surprised me was that rather than gasping these fish immediately perked up both in color and activity.
I added a magnum hob with biowheel filter to double the filter capacity, and used seachem nitrabsorb in the hob, watched the water quality and to my surprise lost noone.
Presently I have a engineer goby I got for free that is about 12 inches, 4 scats, 2 domino damsel and 2 green damsel and a real bad attitude purple lobster who has eaten 3 of my other fish. I also have some hermits and snails in there. I tried some corals but the scats ate them, feather dusters and they ate them too.
I will take a couple of better shots of the tank before and after I move it upstairs. The glass has not been kept totally clean from salt creep but I do regular water maintenance on it, when I move it upstairs.
My son shamus was totally enthralled with my brackish tank I just moved upstairs I can not wait to see his reaction when he sees this one ESPECIALLY THE ENGINEER GOBY. I will be redoing it in a black siliconed 75g tall. I will be adding a good 2-3 inches of sand to the tank to give it a depth of 4 inches
edit(the engineer goby was blind in the one eye when I got him)
