PLanted Marine Tanks.

Does anyone keep a planted marine tank? If so please post pics and tell us what your experience is with them? Easier to keep or more difficult?
personally i would imagine easier and cheaper.................

 

Hi Phoenix heights - did some searching for you and found only this thread from the past that might help
http://www.3reef.com/forums/show-off-your-fish-tanks/my-marine-plant-tank-58811.html


anyone else with planted salt water set up?

Steve

 

i dont have one besides the ball of chaeto in my ten gallon lol. but heres one
http://www.3reef.com/forums/show-off-your-fish-tanks/just-fooling-around-64611.html
also john maloney has one i believe

 

I kept a a hex tank a few years back with some rock weed like that first pic in the first link... it was rather hard... some of those plants are actually quite demanding. Like halmedia requires a lot of calcium for instance.


I like this tank:
http://www.3reef.com/forums/general-reef-topics/japanese-marine-plant-tank-48824.html

 

Much easier! I have one.

Do I have to post pics on here or can I link to my picture thread on another place?

 

I think either is OK and Phoenix heights has been around recently so please do

Steve

 

Here it is!

Here's my Mack Tank!

 

hey micstarz thats cool! I noticed you don;t have a skimmer (i assume you wouldnt need one anyway). What are your parameters like? Do you have to do water changes with tap water to get excess nutrients into the tank??

 

Thanks. I actually don't use my test kits much, but judging by appearance my tank was pretty stable until it crashed yesterday (broken HOB filter overheated water to 45 degrees celsius) The macroalgae survived but the pipefish and porgie juvenile didn't. My P. ciliata is missing, presumed dead and my G. glabrous tore it's right raptorial appendage out.

I top off daily with undechlorinated tapwater with no problems. I guess I have a very high nutrient input because all those breeder boxes contain dozens of feeder animals that are gutloaded daily with pellets, as well as the pipefish which had to be fed BBS every day (most of the BBS died and rotted, but the tank was still algae free).

 

Oh thats a shame about the tank crash!!