This year I’m heading into my fourth year of keeping a salt water aquarium and I thought this would be a nice moment to look back at what happened and share those experiences in a couple of posts.
I will start off with this general piece followed by in depth experiences and information on all inhabitants I have at this moment.
Haven’t had many bad experiences, except for little things like anemone plagues, Planaria outbreak and some switches in water values. The Red Sea Max 250, my first salt water aquarium, has had all these plagues but has been mostly stable for three years now. It has been rebuilt once in that entire period, but maybe a second rebuilt is coming up…who knows.
Since a year or so I have a small tank which I use for coral frags and crabs. This aquarium gave me more problems getting stable, this was mostly because of small budget and lack of patience. However it seems to be stable right now, even though I am experimenting quite somewhat on it.
And then the latest plan that is currently running is the building of an entirely new crab tank that will also have some room for frags but will focus less on that. Also it’s yet unsure if there will be a small aquarium below it to support more room for frags and maybe a mantis in the future.
I haven’t spent much time yet on the technique, I will be focusing a bit more on this now. The Red Sea Max is of course pretty much complete, was no real need to look for lighting or anything since it was all there. But with the upcoming aquarium I will try to get an energy efficient and well running system, testing several options for lights etc.
The series will start with the Fish, followed by Corals and Invertebrates. After all inhabitants have been covered I will do some articles on some technique I have been using as well as issues and plagues I have had in the last three years.
I’m aiming for an update each week, so stay tuned.
