My British ReefTank

Hi all

I've been keeping this tank for about 18 months after 10 years of tropical reefkeeping

Hello and welcome!

That's what I like to see. Tell us about your tank. Is it all collected yourself?

Michael Milligan wrote:Hello and welcome!

That's what I like to see. Tell us about your tank. Is it all collected yourself?

+1

I love the contrast between green a purple you have in your tank as well.

Wow great tank! I'm loving it!

Michael Milligan wrote:Hello and welcome!

That's what I like to see. Tell us about your tank. Is it all collected yourself?

Thanks Michael

Luckily I have 3 kids and a wife who love rockpooling and between us we catch a lot of stuff - only a very selct few make it into the tank these days though. I recycle the livestock fairly frequently, releasing animals as they grow larger.

I've been keeping a blog on my tank over the last few weeks just to remind myself what I was up to at a given time. I look back over the last 10 years or so of reefkeeping and wish I had a record of why I did stuff. This particular tank is 18 months old and for the last 3 months I've been concentrating on creating a British reef aquaria reflecting the local kind of biotope - specifically Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset. I've released my larger fish and crabs, cut right back on the bioload and watched everything burst back into life!

Gary

Pufferfreak wrote:I love the contrast between green a purple you have in your tank as well.

The coralline algaes are doing well, balancing salinity, temperature and lighting is paying off. I'm also getting decent new macro-algae growth. Its nowhere near as pretty as the wild thing yet - but its getting there.

~ocean wrote:Wow great tank! I'm loving it!

ta very much

I'm very impressed! I think it looks very natural and like the wild!

+1.

What's you get some big leafy macros in there it will look even greater .