Hello fellow fish enthusiasts!
about a year ago my brother and I decided to upgrade our tank to a much bigger tank. so we decided to go with a 180 gallon saltwater set up. I have always wanted to keep sharks so that is the route we took. It has been almost a year since we have had the tank up, and things looking great! so i wanted to make a fist post on this site and share my experience.
I have 3 sharks in my tank: banded cat bamboo shark, Indian Bamboo shark, and a blue eye carpet (my favorite). Also i have a lion fish, emperor snapper, tobacco bass, fox face, blue tang, yellow tang, blue powder tang, and 2 pork fish in the tank as well.
i have about 2 and half inches of smooth sand mixed with live crushed sand. i have about 150 lb worth of texes wholly rock in the tank to give cave effect for the sharks.
filtration system includes an over flow box that take the water out of the tank and passes them through 2 filter to catch up the big stuff. then the water goes down into my sump tank which passes through another layer of filter in form of a shower effect, water then goes through bio balls. there is also a UV sterilizer, and a protein skimmer.
my regular water changes is about 20-25% bi weekly. (changing the water as i am typing this. a 5 stage RO system has been purchased to make pure water for my tank.
I had a good number of crabs and snails to keep the sand bay clean, but not much of them is left. i had them in before i added the sharks to clean up my sand. I had a serious problem with ditom grown on teh sand bay. snails, and crabs cleaned them up good, but once hte sharks came in, they all vanished one by one.
I have one problem that i would like some guidence with. keeping my sand bay clean has been tough. siphoning doesn't do much it just takes sand out since i have such fine sand...the sharks turn the sand over on hourly bases.. Is there any kind of cleaner i crew i can put in the water to clean off the sand? starfish? large crabs? snais? that sharks wont eat?
any comment is appreciated so i can better set up my environment.
cheers.
about a year ago my brother and I decided to upgrade our tank to a much bigger tank. so we decided to go with a 180 gallon saltwater set up. I have always wanted to keep sharks so that is the route we took. It has been almost a year since we have had the tank up, and things looking great! so i wanted to make a fist post on this site and share my experience.
I have 3 sharks in my tank: banded cat bamboo shark, Indian Bamboo shark, and a blue eye carpet (my favorite). Also i have a lion fish, emperor snapper, tobacco bass, fox face, blue tang, yellow tang, blue powder tang, and 2 pork fish in the tank as well.
i have about 2 and half inches of smooth sand mixed with live crushed sand. i have about 150 lb worth of texes wholly rock in the tank to give cave effect for the sharks.
filtration system includes an over flow box that take the water out of the tank and passes them through 2 filter to catch up the big stuff. then the water goes down into my sump tank which passes through another layer of filter in form of a shower effect, water then goes through bio balls. there is also a UV sterilizer, and a protein skimmer.
my regular water changes is about 20-25% bi weekly. (changing the water as i am typing this. a 5 stage RO system has been purchased to make pure water for my tank.
I had a good number of crabs and snails to keep the sand bay clean, but not much of them is left. i had them in before i added the sharks to clean up my sand. I had a serious problem with ditom grown on teh sand bay. snails, and crabs cleaned them up good, but once hte sharks came in, they all vanished one by one.
I have one problem that i would like some guidence with. keeping my sand bay clean has been tough. siphoning doesn't do much it just takes sand out since i have such fine sand...the sharks turn the sand over on hourly bases.. Is there any kind of cleaner i crew i can put in the water to clean off the sand? starfish? large crabs? snais? that sharks wont eat?
any comment is appreciated so i can better set up my environment.
cheers.
