rsdino
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Hello everyone reading
my name is Aaron Deane
I am an Ozzy living in Germany
I have been dreaming of a salt water aquarium for years now.
I have finally decided it is time.
I started this thread on the general discusion but i thought it best fits here.
Enough talking time for business.
Im looking at a half cylinder tank as i wrote in the title.
Approximately 60 cm in radius thats 24inches and either 60 or 70 high.
Im pretty sure im going to need a mix from Metal Halides and T5's cos i would love to have an aquarium with a DSB or Deep Sand Bed of around 10 cm or what 4 inches, 100% living rock.
The website that i have talked about in my other thread is a guy in Austria whilst the most of you probably won't be able to read what he writes there are some wicked pickies. thats www.hausriff.ch - check it out - thats a good goal for my coral i think
The form of the tank is a little out of the ordinary well its not a box - most lighting is set up for boxes, so im a little unsure just how at the moment
im considering a 36 inch set of 4 T5's with two Metal Halides in the middle probably 175w - i dont want the heat, then another 24 inch set of 4 T5's with a single Metal Halide also 175w, a few LED's for the ol moon effect and to allow the corals to better feed.
Under the tank i am considering the Via Aqua from O2manyfish skimmer comparison cos the price and it seems to work good and be more of a set and mostly forget, or the new one i have found thanks to skimmerwhisperer is the ATI bobble master 200 which is a little more expensive
At the moment i am looking at the live sand and live rock as being my biological filter the skimmer in the sump and . .. .
now im getting a little stumped im unsure as to what the difference is between lime water kalk water and a calcium reactor are - im pretty sure they all do a similar thing and thats supply the tank with the calcium it needs
which one im unsure of at the moment
Co2 how do you do - no idea
gotta tell the truth when i dunno what im speaking about
the other thing is the tank i am trying to find someone with a big enough over to bend the front acrylic im looking at polycarbonate from bayer makrolon i think its called except i think it only goes as thick as 12mm or approx 1/2 an inch
is that thick enough cos i live upstairs and the last thing i want is for this to split on me leaving me with approx 500 liters of water dropping through the roof to downstairs. the roof im pretty sure is ok its all concrete
it holds a piano it should hold the aquarium
ok enough gotta go spend some time with my girls
my name is Aaron Deane
I am an Ozzy living in Germany
I have been dreaming of a salt water aquarium for years now.
I have finally decided it is time.
I started this thread on the general discusion but i thought it best fits here.
Enough talking time for business.
Im looking at a half cylinder tank as i wrote in the title.
Approximately 60 cm in radius thats 24inches and either 60 or 70 high.
Im pretty sure im going to need a mix from Metal Halides and T5's cos i would love to have an aquarium with a DSB or Deep Sand Bed of around 10 cm or what 4 inches, 100% living rock.
The website that i have talked about in my other thread is a guy in Austria whilst the most of you probably won't be able to read what he writes there are some wicked pickies. thats www.hausriff.ch - check it out - thats a good goal for my coral i think
The form of the tank is a little out of the ordinary well its not a box - most lighting is set up for boxes, so im a little unsure just how at the moment
im considering a 36 inch set of 4 T5's with two Metal Halides in the middle probably 175w - i dont want the heat, then another 24 inch set of 4 T5's with a single Metal Halide also 175w, a few LED's for the ol moon effect and to allow the corals to better feed.
Under the tank i am considering the Via Aqua from O2manyfish skimmer comparison cos the price and it seems to work good and be more of a set and mostly forget, or the new one i have found thanks to skimmerwhisperer is the ATI bobble master 200 which is a little more expensive
At the moment i am looking at the live sand and live rock as being my biological filter the skimmer in the sump and . .. .
now im getting a little stumped im unsure as to what the difference is between lime water kalk water and a calcium reactor are - im pretty sure they all do a similar thing and thats supply the tank with the calcium it needs
which one im unsure of at the moment
Co2 how do you do - no idea
gotta tell the truth when i dunno what im speaking about
the other thing is the tank i am trying to find someone with a big enough over to bend the front acrylic im looking at polycarbonate from bayer makrolon i think its called except i think it only goes as thick as 12mm or approx 1/2 an inch
is that thick enough cos i live upstairs and the last thing i want is for this to split on me leaving me with approx 500 liters of water dropping through the roof to downstairs. the roof im pretty sure is ok its all concrete
it holds a piano it should hold the aquarium
ok enough gotta go spend some time with my girls
