CrustyCrab's Profile

Native Marine Aquarium
Eheim. Karat 200. 200x60x60 740 liters
Lighting 4x Aquabeam 600. 2x t5 38w light tubes
Filtration 2 x Eheim 2080. 2 x Tunze 6055 with Controller 7092
Red Sea Prizm Hang on Skimmer
Replacing with Tunze
No heating.

West Africian Tank
Trigon 350 Planted
Juwel Filter Removed.
Lighting 2x Aquabeam 500 + original light bars
Filtration Eheim 2073 with surface skimmer
Heating Eheim 200
Livestock Pelvicachromis taeniatus

80L Cube - Empty

Mbuna Tank
Eheim Karat 200
1x Eheim 2080 1x Eheim 2180
Lighting t5 x 8 (4x double units) Standard with tank.
Tank Empty
To be stocked with
pseudotropheus polit Lions cove F1

Nice big tanks Crusty!

Love to see pics of your native marine tank if you could put up a few.

Native Marine Tank

That's a lovely native marine setup. I do a fair bit of Scuba Diving and your tank looks spot on, just like what I'd see under water...

J.

Your native tanks reminds me of paddling tru rock pools as a child

I must set-up a native marine tank one day just to give me an excuse to do more walking over rock pools.
There are some super species available.

ian

Very very nice tank Crusty, someday I would love to venture down the marine route

How about a pic of your pelvicachromis taeniatus. I just have regular old Kribs myself and they are really light shy, but will come out from their "hidie hole " when the overhead light is out. I'm using a four foot double tube florescent fixture with two T8 verilus bulbs running temp of 6500k.
I've put a folded piece of news paper directly above the flower pot shards (on top of the tank) where the fish hang out during the "day" to cut down on the light hitting their area and it seems to help some. I have no dither fish in the tank and intend to use it as a "grow out" tank for young killifish if the Kribs aren't too aggressive. I had this pair of kribs for a years now and they have not spawned (to my great disappointment).