A New Adventure !!!!

Hello every one,

to start with bit of intro, I am Jaival Parikh, business man from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. in am new here but keeping a track of this forum and peeking around quite long now and its excellent, very helpful.

I am in hobby since quite long and specially into planted tanks since 2 years, but now want to keep marines, thought this will be the best platform to get help.

Its been a long since I had a desire to keep a marine tank and now i finally have started to cycle one


would appericiate your help in my marine tank preparation, now experts jump in and answer the queries please

it has now been more than 4 months that i am working on my tank and reading, then one fine day my friend introduced me to this forum.

i will try to upload a pictorial tour of the tank from day one

old tank, which is now sump and rocks in making



stand comes and the old tank goes down in the bottom with the rocks for cycling



did shopping for marines when i was in US for Business trip



Partition of the Sump



Trunk load of stuff from LFS



new tank came and staff for cleaning



Rocks going in for cycling



Plumbing



spray bar



found few leaks in the plumbing soo again have to wait for quite long and then start with the plumbing again.

Durso pipe as the intake was making noise.



The skimmer is set and working



Water level maintained



Did the test for the first time after making water, test kit used is API
And all the water parameters are positive. And very near to 0ppm





Water has been cleared and now is crystal clear

Here goes a night shot





Now waiting for reefractometer to come.

Problem : still the FW algae is not cleaning up... What to do ??

Thanks for reading and watching. Critics are welcome and appreciated.

 

Welcome to 3reef Jaival.


You have done an excellent job. I really like the scape.

In the last images of the tank it looks pretty clean.

What is your water source? Do you have a phosphate test?

 

Beautiful aquascape and a nice sized tank as well. What are the dimensions of the tank?

 

Nice start Jaival! Looks like you're on the right track. I love rimless tanks....

Welcome to 3reef.

 

thank you very much, appericiate it

my water source is regular tape water, i.e. municipal/corporation water. i dont have phosphate test kit. have ordered it from Saltwater and Reef Aquarium Supplies - Bulk Reef Supply but they dont deliver internationally its at my friends place so will have to wait till he comes back to india. may be few more weeks to go.

thank you bro, sorry missed out the tank size 72X27X24 (LXBXH)

thank you very much

 

hee comes an update

4 days back got 2 pieces of live rock, not the stuff i was expecting but it was not bad as well. cleaned them thoroughly and placed them in sump right now with no lights. planning to make ATS in the middle chamber aswell so was thinking on the lights.

soo here is the plan.

option 1 ) either go with santamonica's design ATS or to make a simple small and cheap ATS and give light such a way that it helps ATS aswell as live rock and cheatos to grow in

option 2 ) go with 10W LED in the sump for cheatos and LR and then when time permits make ATS that ll go in first chamber.

now let me know what do you guys think ....... ?? inputs are important.

here goes the pics







today went to city to get myself drum for the water change.



i also want suggestion here. to leave the drums as it is on the side and pump out water from the drum to the tank
OR to drill in the hole and rise the drum and make it permanent so i just need to press the switch on and everything done ??

Thanks for having a look.

 

i am back with update

the buckets that i bought are washed and now ready to use for water change.

since last 1 week checked the water parameters for 3 times and everything was perfect. no ammonia, nitrite, nitrate everything was near to 0 on the API test kits. then what was it i was waiting for ??

i was waiting for reefractometer to check the gravity and finally it came tonight before few hours.



the SG is also perfect 1.023-1.024 so this makes my tank is ready to get the fishes.....

soo experts and friends can this be said that the cycling process is over ?? can i introduce a fish or two ??
if yes then what should i introduce ?? a couple of blue-green chromis or a pair of clown ??

thanks for reading.

 

hA, going old school with the spray bar!! Looking great! Keep the updates coming.

 

Is your tank being kept outside?

 

I love the tank! However, if possible, I would use an RO/DI unit. It will save you a lot of trouble in the long run