neopole Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 hi all, i got a cold saltwater tank, been going 7 or so months now, and decided that i better find out what is happening in the tank. so i bought a saltwater master test kit from jensons last week. the results. PH 8.2 AMMONIA 0ppm NITRITE 0ppm NITRATE 0ppm temp 17deg well, as you can see, perfect results. i am soo happy. the tank 5ft 270lt ( narrow tank) no sump, no skimmer, 1 homemade chiller, and 2 5ft fluro tubes. 1 fluval 403, 1 380lt and 1 700lt per hour powerheads, the 380 has a venturi pumping air into tank. the 700 runs the chiller. 4inch sand bed and lots of rocks with seaweed, the back and side glass has never been cleaned, and is "growing" nicely. inhabitants lots of cockles and pipes, a few oysters. many anenomes of different colours. lots of catseyes and turbo snails 30 odd crabs ranging from hermits to blue filter to orange grazers to yellow hunters. 3 starfish, a handfull of snapping shrimp 3 fish ...rockhopper thingamejigs that change colour. hundreds of worms and other weird things that i have never seen before. most of the above are breeding to. i have had trouble with mussles...they have all died. feeding 1 mussles and bits of frozen shrimp every 4 days. cleaning 100lt waterchange every month or so when i siffon the crap out. last time cleaned about 5 weeks ago. i think i might just recycle the water instead of putting in new seawater, because my parameters a good. budget $350 for tank, stand, lights, main filter. powerheads $ 60 chiller $60 testkit $72 power ..lights 100watts 12 hours, pumps 40watts 24hours = not much live stock and rocks and sand free. enjoyment priceless neopole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben19185074 Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 what chiller is it? $60 only!?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 That sounds like a really cool tank Neopole. Any chance of us seeing a photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neopole Posted November 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 the chiller is homemade, there is a link further back with instructions. thread is "homemade chiller" i havent got a digital cam yet, but hope to get 1 soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianemone Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 any sea horses?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 water chemistry is probably helped by such a large clean up crew and few fish. Add some decent fish to it and she'll probably go downhill faster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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