Aup

[surferjoe86]

Hey I've been keeping marines for just over 18months now and loving it. I have a 240liter tank with a few hermit crabs 2 peppermint shrimp 1 fire shrimp 5 green chromis 1 toby 2 xenia 1 leather 1 mushroom 1 kenya tree.
Move house recently and lost most of my livestock in the process (4 cleaner shrimp, 1 yellow tang, 1 mandarin)

Done lots of DIY projects due to lack of funding...
Phosphate reactor
overflow
auto top off
auto salt water change

Just starting to go down the SPS route so buying LED's very soon

any advice on keeping SPS would be great
I'm living in the Dearne area if anyones close and wants to swap frags that would be great.

cheers Joe

[steve]

Welcome to SYRG Joe
Pop over to our next meet
10th dec at 4pm
You can discuss frag swops there or even on here and exchange frags on the night

We like to get new faces in and regulars may even get a SYRG t shirt

[saltylass]

hi joe and welcome! love to know more about your DIY overflow.

steve, didnt know you lot was planning a meet, lol. where will this be at?

[steve]

We have a meeting every month at A57 aquatics (where your clowns came from)
This months meet is at 4pm on Saturday the 10th

[saltylass]

oh right, i'll aim to be there. many ppl go?

[steve]

Usually around 10 or 12 but numbers and interest are picking up

[surferjoe86]

how longs the meet for? whats is a57 aquatics? I'll see if I can get time off work to come.

I've made 2 overflows in my fantastic 18months of reef keeping:

1: siphon overflow made from acrylic. pretty much custom made it to fit whren i needed it. (the whole tank was DIY) used a check valve on the top of the siphon area incase any air tried to get itself involved, I just used a airline tube on the check valve to suck up the water level if it had dropped. It very hard to explain the setup of it in words I'd have to do a drawing. It's long gone now
2:
as I now have fluval roma 240 setup with pre cut holes in the bottom. I used the fittings it came with, then used 50mm drain tubes (2 of in black) I stuck them down around each hole. so its a weir (how ever it's spelt) one is higher than the other so I have a backup incase the lower one gets blocked. I had a clown jump down one so I've meshed them both at the top. other than that I've no trouble at all with it. compaired to the siphon that needed checking everyother day and priming every 2 to 3 weeks. But never had a clown fish stuck in it! (the clown survived, I just blocked the flow into my sump causing the 50mm tube to fill up and with abit of encouragment the clown jumped back out)

Cheers joe

[ian]

Hi Joe,

Welcome to to club.

Maybe see you at the next meeting.

Cheers Ian.