Marine fish tank setup help

markf1fan · 05-01-2012, 07:18 PM

Hi all
Does any one on here have and run a marine fish tank, i have a 400L tropical tank which i want to setup into a marines. i have had and breed discus before so have ro units. i also have 2x eheim 2028 filters that i could use but have no idea on protien skimmers and what else i will need to get started.
so any help on here or through pm would be great.

mark

freddy · 06-01-2012, 11:12 AM

Hiya Mark.

I can't really help you with your question. You say it's 400l? What are the actual dimensions? The reason I ask is because I was once considering having a marine set-up, but it seems that for SOME fish, the tank needs to be at least 4ft in length, and so I gave up on the idea, as I only had 3ft to spare.

Cheers...Freddy.

markf1fan · 06-01-2012, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by freddy

Hiya Mark.

I can't really help you with your question. You say it's 400l? What are the actual dimensions? The reason I ask is because I was once considering having a marine set-up, but it seems that for SOME fish, the tank needs to be at least 4ft in length, and so I gave up on the idea, as I only had 3ft to spare.

Cheers...Freddy.

hi Freddy

My tank i have is 58" x 24" x 18" so its a big tank. its 400 litres

freddy · 06-01-2012, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by markf1fan

hi Freddy

My tank i have is 58" x 24" x 18" so its a big tank. its 400 litres

Sounds good

hihat · 07-04-2012, 04:40 AM

Did you ever get any help with the marine tank?

I only joined about a month ago so had missed this post

I'm currently running a 60x30x36" tank and have been keeping marines about 8 years.

Jim

markf1fan · 07-04-2012, 06:10 AM

hi Jim

i gave up on the marine tank in the end and went back to keeping discus in my tank. the cost of setting a marine tank up was way to much for me at the time. mark

chagoi2 · 08-04-2012, 11:01 PM

Just being nosy ......is it the rio 400 you have ?

Awesome tank i used to have one and looked into marines but also found it to much coin to switch .

Any more info on what stock you have in there and how many discus etc ..

I,ve got a 240 ltr tank with tetras and i,m thinking of adding discus , my water is ultra soft

pondy · 09-04-2012, 07:05 PM

Mark have you followed this up yet? what type of marine set up did you want.. fish only... inverts only or both?

markf1fan · 09-04-2012, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by chagoi2

Just being nosy ......is it the rio 400 you have ?

Awesome tank i used to have one and looked into marines but also found it to much coin to switch .

Any more info on what stock you have in there and how many discus etc ..

I,ve got a 240 ltr tank with tetras and i,m thinking of adding discus , my water is ultra soft

Hi Chagoi2
the tank i have is 400 Litres and i had it made to my size. i buy all my discus from chens discus in harrow,london. he has some of the best discus in the uk, and is a greaat guy to deal with.i have 10 discus at moment. blue diamonds, cobolts, leopards, and blue turks. they are all young fish at moment but will in time pair up. before i built my pond i use to breed them as a hobbie and spent 1000s on building a fish house of which i had 15x 4 foot tanks running and 6x breeding tanks with 6x breeding pairs. it was dame hard work but great to see the fry feeding from the parents skin. have always liked keeping discus.

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Originally Posted by pondy

Mark have you followed this up yet? what type of marine set up did you want.. fish only... inverts only or both?

Hi Pondy nice to see you on the forum again, no i never followed it up as to set up from new and fresh was going to cost well over £2000 for what i wanted and i just could not warrant paying that out now i have my pond. so i went back to keeping discus fish.

markf1fan · 09-04-2012, 07:34 PM

this is the fish house i built.