What if a green moray ate your hand off!!!
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TheCanuck;4185765; said:3 bamboos 1 horn.. haha thanks. Everyone gave me **** about having a green eel and BB grouper then i bought this tank to upgrade. Now i am already planning the bigger one
Thanks.
Yea i know what you mean, although i have no problems with him while i clean the tank. I figure it doesn't really matter, cause if he bites, he bites. So i try to just keep my hands away from his face at all times. He loves it when you stratch his tummy, but hes been moody lately.
He goes back and forth
O funny story about the lights. I blew the outlet and made fireworks when i forgot to water proof the lights...
heres a pic with lights on though!
Got to admit you make me want a saltwater tank, but I would have to do what your doing. Go absolutely massive as I'd want sharks and a moray!
Hey I see an FX5 outlet, whats your filtration on that bad boy? Few Fx5s?
SteveR;4186780; said:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=317355
1fx5
3200gph pump running sump
90 gallon standup drawer system
55 gallon sump
skimmer
900gph refugium connected to sump 5 gallon
3642gph powerheads x2
Thanks man.
Question. For ease of building, technically could you just use like 4 Fx5s on a tank that size. I'm talking hypothetically if I couldn't be bother with sumps etc. Obviously I would have a skimmer. I'm thinking of the future when I'm not renting you see...
Question. For ease of building, technically could you just use like 4 Fx5s on a tank that size. I'm talking hypothetically if I couldn't be bother with sumps etc. Obviously I would have a skimmer. I'm thinking of the future when I'm not renting you see...
Sorry to bug you but you are just a saltwater god to me now.
See the grouper you had that died (utterly awesome creature it's colours where amazing) what type was he? I have a feeling he grows like 3 feet? You see I'm considering saltwater but I'm a freshwater person. I'm into barbs, loaches, you kno long bodied fish that grow fairly large but not like 3 feet long! What are my options? Are their any groupers I could get? I quite like the look of yours but it probably gets too big? Thanks.
See the grouper you had that died (utterly awesome creature it's colours where amazing) what type was he? I have a feeling he grows like 3 feet? You see I'm considering saltwater but I'm a freshwater person. I'm into barbs, loaches, you kno long bodied fish that grow fairly large but not like 3 feet long! What are my options? Are their any groupers I could get? I quite like the look of yours but it probably gets too big? Thanks.
SteveR;4187106; said:
Well canisters are not recommend for SW use. I mean you can use them, but many people say they have nitrate build ups and many other problems. I change mine every two weeks, to keep up with the required maintenance. If you kept up with all the fx5's yea you could use them. Personally i would just get a large skimmer some sand, and match the live rock lb/lb if i wasn't doing sharks and rays and then that would be your filtration.
SteveR;4187148; said:
Max. size: 270 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 5213); max. published weight: 400.0 kg (Ref. 26367)
Thats 9ft 881lbs
There are so many SW fish its crazy. You would just have to decide what you enjoyed most. Check out the SW section at your lfs, with intention to buy it gets so much more interesting. I use to be a FW die hard.
i wish i knew as much as some of these guys here on mfk. I still fall under the term newbie.
Lepisosteus platyrhincus;4187197; said:damn man!! what does one of those run?? I really a ]V[onster eel
cost me roughly 200-350$ I traded fish the the value is hard to say. Its not much though.
TheCanuck;4187188; said:
Give yourself credit you know more than most SW noobs. Another thing I wanted to ask. Your not much into corals? I don't see many if any in your tanks just sand and rock (which is cool don't get me wrong).
What do you mean skimmer, large rock pound for pound? I don't know much about marine but I don't get how you can call a rock alive or how it can filter? Dang i need to read more. So if I had enough live rock and a big skimmer thats it? No filter? I'm confused.
SteveR;4187337; said:
Yea the rock and sand are your filters. The sand more than anything though. In saltwater everything is alive, not like freshwater. There are millions and millions of micro organisms constantly moving the sandbed and living on the rocks, eating food and decaying matter. Bacteria plays a role in SW but there are so many micros that a tank can be filtered by live rock, live sand, and a skimmer. With some addtional flow.
