My other money pit

[bear2249]

Just thought id post some pics of the other things that pennies
These are done with the phone so not too good. Ive got a feeling the Mrs has put the camera some where safe

[cl0wn]

I feel your pain, have a perc 90 reef tank. Can't upload pics on my nexus.

[bear2249]

I used to have a nice reef but time and money made me go FOWLR.

Then i upgraded to 88"x35"x30" and im back to square one icon_shoppingm

[a1laserboy]

I've never really liked tropical fish but a marine one seems tempting. Is it a bad money pit?

[bear2249]

If you keep it small its like most things its expensive as the things you want to keep.

Mine at the mo costs around £150 a month for salt,electric and food etc.

To keep a succesfull reef its more about time to check and clean things on a regular basis to keep the paramiters stable for the corals to survive.

[Bluefish]

That seems very steep bear, how often are you changing the water? a bucket of salt used to be about 50 quid and that would last a few months.

[bear2249]

The salt i use is £70 a bucket and i do 200-300 litre change a week. Its a 2000 litre system.

[Bluefish]

Nov 10, 2013 8:51:11 GMT bear2249 said:

The salt i use is £70 a bucket and i do 200-300 litre change a week. Its a 2000 litre system.

Aha, ok I'll let you off 2000ltrs got any pics of the whole tank?

[bear2249]

No. The tank fills the room so i cant get far enough away to get the full tank and cant afford a wide angle lens

Some where ive got some pics that show the full tank in 3 pics. Ill post shortly

[bear2249]

About the best full tank view i can get



A view from the end

[Bluefish]

Bleedin mahoosive, your corals growing ok? I go to one old boys house and his tank is about that size, his fish and corals are massive, he's had them for donkeys years. We might get a tropical tank again soon, as soon as stepdaughter finds a new home for the corn snake, which isn't easy lol snake is in the place a tank would go.

[bear2249]

I dont keep corals any more. I got into salt water due to loving the look of some of the larger angelfish.
However most of them like having coral for lunch. So when work started taking most of my time up the corals went and the angelfish came.

It doesnt look as good as a reef tank but the fish make up for it.

[cl0wn]

Afraid my tank has become a bit neglected since I found vaping. You gotta love those flipper magnets, theyre great. Do I know you from RCUK? We have a member from Selby on there?

[bear2249]

Nov 10, 2013 20:06:33 GMT cl0wn said:

Afraid my tank has become a bit neglected since I found vaping. You gotta love those flipper magnets, theyre great. Do I know you from RCUK? We have a member from Selby on there?

The only site i go on at tje mo us Ultimate Reef. Ye the flipper is a good bit of kit. Makes getting to the bottom of a 30" tank a lot easier to clean

[cl0wn]

Am a member on there, but dont get chance to go on much, or rc. Nice tank BTW!