Dawn's 56 gallon tribute seahorse tank

vlangel said:
I had not heard of that Jaime, do you have a link of a tiled tank?
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The King of DIY on youtube did it in his fresh water tank. That is where I got the idea. Then I heard of people talking about using ceramic tile and travertine tile for mounting coral frags. I will use white unglazed ceramic bisque tiles.

So I'm putting the two together and going to line the bottom of my tank in white ceramic tiles. It will give the benefits of bare bottom but will also give me surface for growing out frags. Then I can always switch out the tiles as I harvest the fully grown out coral tiles.
 
JaimeAdams said:
The King of DIY on youtube did it in his fresh water tank. That is where I got the idea. Then I heard of people talking about using ceramic tile and travertine tile for mounting coral frags. I will use white unglazed ceramic bisque tiles.

So I'm putting the two together and going to line the bottom of my tank in white ceramic tiles. It will give the benefits of bare bottom but will also give me surface for growing out frags. Then I can always switch out the tiles as I harvest the fully grown out coral tiles.
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That is interesting. I hope you keep us all informed in a thread about how it works out.
 

This is the first pic of my new pair of ponies. They are recovering from shipping stress in a 10g QT. The little girl is settling in faster while the little boy is rather reclusive. I have added live brine shrimp and amphipods to hopefully elicit a feeding response.
 

Here is a better pic of my new babies. I got a shipment of ghost shrimp in and they are smaller than normal but perfect for these guys. Boaz sucked one in the size of his head. Ruth prefers to snap them in half and try to eat both parts before Boaz cashes in on her kill. It is rather brutal but I am so glad to see it!
 

New scape! I added a powerhead to the lower left to help keep particles in suspension but I had to cover it up with rock, coral and dragon's breath so it was not distractingbfrom the rest of the tank.
 
Very nice. I see your water flow is up a lot higher then I would have expected does it ramp up and down though out the day or is it always that high? I assumed it would be lower.
 
loui said:
Very nice. I see your water flow is up a lot higher then I would have expected does it ramp up and down though out the day or is it always that high? I assumed it would be lower.
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Nope, its always that high except when I feed the ponies and I turn off both powerheads. Seahorses are not powerful swimmers and because of that folks used to think that they needed to be in low flow tanks. That is not the case, in fact they do best in tanks with areas of high, medium and low flow. The high flow, especially on the bottom of the tank helps keep detritus and uneatten food in suspension so that it can be filtered out. If it collects anywhere, pathogenic bacteria can get a foothold and seahorses are very vulnerable to bacteria.
 
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