My 50Gal Low-tech FOWL(without sump)

[sanjaypills55]

Would love to have suggestions & comments

Since i am new-bie..be a bit soft with you critiques.

Now i know how hard it is to take fish pix......

Fishes:

Yellow Tang, Blue Tang, Flame Angel, Long Nose Hawk, Maroon Crown & Spotted Mandrin

Inverts:

2 Skunk Shrimps, 1 Fire Shrimp & 1 Bali Sea Star

[Earth]

Would love to have suggestions & comments

Since i am new-bie..be a bit soft with you critiques.

Now i know how hard it is to take fish pix......

Fishes:

Yellow Tang, Blue Tang, Flame Angel, Long Nose Hawk, Maroon Crown & Spotted Mandrin

Inverts:

2 Skunk Shrimps, 1 Fire Shrimp & 1 Bali Sea Star

you forgot your copperband no skimmer?

[sanjaypills55]

Opps... yeah forgot about the copper band

Using a reef octopus DNW-110, upgraded from Wiepro 2011 abt 2 months back!

No chiller, no high end equipments..

Just using a 36W X 2 PL lights & fan for cooling!!

[FreeWillie]

Hi Sanjaypills55,

Your Copperband beautiful.

Can show some shots of your spotted mandarin?

& Cheers....!

[sanjaypills55]

Thanks FreeWillie,

Will take some more picture in the weekend!!

[Morpheous]

Your fish are healthy.

How often is the husbandry?

[sanjaypills55]

My fishes are healthy except lately a bit of white spots cause i introduced a blue tang last week!

It should disappear in 1 or 2 weeks hopefully.

i used to feed 2 cubes of frozen food.. one in the morning & one at night. & some pellets for tangs & angel

Do 5% water changes weekly.

but because of that my nitrates was about 40-60ppm.. so cant keep any corals except mushrooms.

Last 2 weeks i have cut down feeding by half... half cube morning & balance half at night.

& increased water change to 10% weekly.

will wait few weeks before testing the nitrates again.

[sanjaypills55]

Took some more pix.

Hope i can hear some comments & suggestion!

Spotted Mandarin (so hard to take picture of this guy!)

Bali Sea Star

Long Nose Hawk Fish

Distant View Of My Low Tech setup

My Overflow Chamber

[sanjaypills55]

upz

[cdckjn]

It is god to see low-tech tanks like yours doing so well. It seems that I am not the only one would prefer simple low-tech "low-maintance low-cost" approach to keeping marine fishes. My simple 2ft tank with the sump. The setup similar to yours except that my marine tank is at the top and then a DIY overflow to the bottom tank which is a sump then have a pump to pump water up back to the top. Well, I am lazy so that don't do regular water changes at all, my tank is mature alright at least 3 years old. I did a 50% water change just beginning of year - when suddenly all my fishes just died lkike that. Other than that I just top up water.

You remind me that I should at least keep up the routine of doing at least some water change - 10% per month. Well Done on the fishes and good luck with the ich that the blue tang has introduced. Cheers.

[sanjaypills55]

It is god to see low-tech tanks like yours doing so well. It seems that I am not the only one would prefer simple low-tech "low-maintance low-cost" approach to keeping marine fishes. My simple 2ft tank with the sump. The setup similar to yours except that my marine tank is at the top and then a DIY overflow to the bottom tank which is a sump then have a pump to pump water up back to the top. Well, I am lazy so that don't do regular water changes at all, my tank is mature alright at least 3 years old. I did a 50% water change just beginning of year - when suddenly all my fishes just died lkike that. Other than that I just top up water.

You remind me that I should at least keep up the routine of doing at least some water change - 10% per month. Well Done on the fishes and good luck with the ich that the blue tang has introduced. Cheers.

Thanks for ur reply..

My itch problem seems to be better now.. still not fully recovered.

What fishes do you keep? Would love to see ur setup?

Why don't you post some pictures!!

Cheers

Sanjay

[sanjaypills55]

Added 2 cheap coral bought from Ah Beng

[Firestarter]

Is your yellow tang pale? Try feeding it more veggie stuff, like nori to get its colour back.

[sanjaypills55]

Is your yellow tang pale? Try feeding it more veggie stuff, like nori to get its colour back.

Yeah didn't realized until you said it!

Need to start feeding seaweed..

[stevenkoh08]

OR YOU CAN feed it with Ocean nutrietion fomula 1 & 2 pellet mix together it works for me and the colour looks just great even i keep the SG at 1.015 feeding greedy look at thisyellow tang

[szekwang]

HI Bros,

I also would like to share my low-tech FOWL.

Fish - 5 chromis, 2 warsse, 3 tang, 1 clown, 2 angel

COmment welcome : )

[shanshine]

Added 2 cheap coral bought from Ah Beng

hey bro,

do u ahve any fiter pumps other than ur skimmer? anyway where do u invest ur stuff at? and do u have any idea where to get affordable custom makers for tanks and also equipments? thanks.

[sanjaypills55]

hey bro,

do u ahve any fiter pumps other than ur skimmer? anyway where do u invest ur stuff at? and do u have any idea where to get affordable custom makers for tanks and also equipments? thanks.

Hi Shanshine,

My Filter is just the overflow compartments.... It contains filter wool for pre-filter, 2 kgs of Biohome Plus , some chaetos & Atman 105 to pump water back to the tank.

No idea about custom tank makers cause my tank is just a simple fresh water tank, which my friend gave it to me.

[sanjaypills55]

My Tank is slowing turning from a FOLWR to a reef...lol

Uploaded a vid hope u guys like it!

[nwyk153]

my 2yr old fowlr also consider low tech lol.

[Fuzzy]

My Tank is slowing turning from a FOLWR to a reef...lol

Uploaded a vid hope u guys like it!

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[sanjaypills55]

Nice vid! looking good, but it seems like its getting very crowded in there, you might want to slow down on adding more livestock to that tank.

Also if you intend to try keeping more corals you might seriously want to consider getting a 2nd hand chiller.

Hi Fuzzy,

You are right, a bit too crowded there, will be careful not to add anything more!!

Can't afford the electricity bill for chiller! Once your reefing goes beyond the budget, it starts becoming a very expensive hobby!

That's why i try to keep it as simple as possible!

Anyway satisfied with cooling fan, just have to keep up with the water topup!

[pokmingsheng]

your blue tang looks abit too big for the tank.. haha...

it has grown since the last photos u posted in may...

[sanjaypills55]

your blue tang looks abit too big for the tank.. haha...

it has grown since the last photos u posted in may...

Yeah that fish has kept me worrying.. eats like a pig...

But is extreme hyper splashes water around..

Saw it biting my super sun i bough few weeks ago!

Don't know what todo!

[benjamintse]

do u wan to rearrange ur rocks to a more bigger rock rather than clampin all the small rock together.then ur tang can hide in it