Malta Aquarist Society

Hi everyone
August 2008 I bought a 120 litre tank. My aim being to have a small reef tank with only a couple of fish and some easy soft corals.

My setup is:-

hang on protain skimmer
circulation pum(4600l/h)
1500l/h internal filter
 chiller for 200Ltr
live sand
Local Live Rock
 120l aquarium complete with 2 t5 and cabinet
5 extra t5s with separate ballast (155w in all)

This is my first picture I took

and this is a picture of a week ago.

Keep it up friend very nice,what about some fish?

 Wow the improvement is amazing !! Well done . 

I have 5 fish in it and  I think that is all as it is very difficult to keep nitrate and nitrite and amonia low. so I better keep it like that

Hi matt very nice tank indeed! I like marine setups very much but from what I read on magazines and other forums it's a bit more difficult then fresh water setups.

Whats the difference between soft and hard corals? If you want you can use examples from your tank....

Welcome to The Forum matt1976.

Your tank is very beautiful & what a difference in 8 months. Well done & hope to see more interesting pictures (close ups) of those corals.

 Nice shots of a very nice tank , keep it up buddy.  When buying corals , you 'just' put them in the tank and they grow and flourish or is there any other thing one must do.  Can you tell us more please about your setup etc , thanks

 Very nice tank mate, keep it up ... and keep the pics coming.

Any breeding behaviour reported of the clowns/cardinals?

So in my case and I restate in my case I just buy them and put them in the water and they live. The most difficult part for me is placing them as they keep falling off the first week or so. But after that it is only discipline .I do a water change every Saturday of 10% I use a very good salt and that is it basically. as regards the tank it is very good and handy ,it is only 120lt with a small internal filter of 1000lt/h a hang on protein skimmer,a couple of wave makers  and about  175w of t5s.Apart from that I have no magic wands or miracle boxes ,All I have is some basic day steps to follow and weekly steps too and that is it .And btw the hole setup is only 200w  excluding the chiller

Impressively nice. Does the chiller consume a lot? I really like nemo fish 

well it is a small one so it is only 200w .and it is not on every time .I summer it is on 20minutes from every 60minutes and that is when the light are on at night it is even less