My fascination with fish started with my annual 2 week trips to my Dad's place in the Tropical north of Western Australia. My father owns a pet store (freshwater only) and i really loved watching and looking after the fish while I was there.
After a few years I decided that I wanted to have some fish at home and bought a small Jebo 338 tank (about 30L) for my 2 bedroom apartment. I quickly got a good tropical tank started and acquired a second same size tank for the bedroom and started another tropical tank.
My girlfriends sister got married and when her husband moved into their new home he sold me his Aqua One 155L tank which after moving things around in the lounge room, I combined the 2 small tropical tanks into the one tank.
This worked find for a while, but I started to wonder if I could give marine a try. After looking longingly at different marine fish in numerous stores I decided to give it a go.
I resurrected the Jebo 338 tank and started with the live rock on marble chip (size 0, now size 00). After much trial and many errors we have our tank with a Male Mandarin, Female Dragon-net and 2 seahorses (one large one small). We know the large one is a male (gave birth), we think the small one is a female. We have change the standard powerhead to include a combination water chiller and heater to keep the seahorses comfortable during the Sydney summers. This setup has been going for about 12months.
We also set up the other 30L tank to mix freshwater with salt and keep it heated for when we do our water changes, and now have a timer on the tank lights to ensure they get sleep (so i don't forget)
We have been feeding our residents on a rotating diet of frozen brine and mysis shrimp and when we can get them they get a treat of live brine shrimp.
A week or so ago the seahorses stopped eating, although it appeared as though they were attempting to eat but the suction just wasn't working. After looking through the Internet we found a couple of articles on freshwater dipping, which we did and they are now eating, but the suction is still not working as well as it used to. A couple of days ago we noticed that the Dragon-net isn't interested in the food, she just sits on the bottom of the tank, so now not sure if there is something wrong.
I know the tank I am using is very small and it would be better to moving things to a larger size, but unfortunately the small unit is a limiting factor. I have read through some of the postings here and noticed a lot of talk about pods?? but I am not sure if we can get those things over here in Sydney.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
After a few years I decided that I wanted to have some fish at home and bought a small Jebo 338 tank (about 30L) for my 2 bedroom apartment. I quickly got a good tropical tank started and acquired a second same size tank for the bedroom and started another tropical tank.
My girlfriends sister got married and when her husband moved into their new home he sold me his Aqua One 155L tank which after moving things around in the lounge room, I combined the 2 small tropical tanks into the one tank.
This worked find for a while, but I started to wonder if I could give marine a try. After looking longingly at different marine fish in numerous stores I decided to give it a go.
I resurrected the Jebo 338 tank and started with the live rock on marble chip (size 0, now size 00). After much trial and many errors we have our tank with a Male Mandarin, Female Dragon-net and 2 seahorses (one large one small). We know the large one is a male (gave birth), we think the small one is a female. We have change the standard powerhead to include a combination water chiller and heater to keep the seahorses comfortable during the Sydney summers. This setup has been going for about 12months.
We also set up the other 30L tank to mix freshwater with salt and keep it heated for when we do our water changes, and now have a timer on the tank lights to ensure they get sleep (so i don't forget)
We have been feeding our residents on a rotating diet of frozen brine and mysis shrimp and when we can get them they get a treat of live brine shrimp.
A week or so ago the seahorses stopped eating, although it appeared as though they were attempting to eat but the suction just wasn't working. After looking through the Internet we found a couple of articles on freshwater dipping, which we did and they are now eating, but the suction is still not working as well as it used to. A couple of days ago we noticed that the Dragon-net isn't interested in the food, she just sits on the bottom of the tank, so now not sure if there is something wrong.
I know the tank I am using is very small and it would be better to moving things to a larger size, but unfortunately the small unit is a limiting factor. I have read through some of the postings here and noticed a lot of talk about pods?? but I am not sure if we can get those things over here in Sydney.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
