Forbesey
New Member
Hi to all
Not used to posting well except a letter in a mailbox. I have been keeping livestock for a great number of years now all sorts and even reached the heady heights of being a judge. I then took up fish keeping which I have been doing for the past 10 years or so. I have kept all sorts and along with my son breed Guppies I know but they do have a certain charm. Now after boring you all I will get to the nitty gritty. After much research I have decided to have a go at Marine and have purchased an ex display Red Sea Max from my L.F.S. took me a while to work out what LFS meant not stupid but of mature years. You can imagine my delight when I stumbled across this site and the forum for RSM see I am even doing it now abbreviating I mean.
Rights I intend to keep everybody informed on my progress.If I can work out how to include pictures I will. First off all here are some questions to begin with.
The tank was emptied of water and left in the shop before I purchased it.
No rock was left in but the sand was still there.
It then stood in my garage for some time as I was to busy to start.
When I opened the lid it smelt something awful
I managed to wet vac all the crud out of the bottom and it now smells off the sea or saltwater
I am nearly ready to go to the next stage but first I need to know the following
I would really like to clean it how do I go about that and what do I use
I have not even looked in the back as yet but I believe that it's still as it was in the shop all of the filter requirements still in place
Should I change all of them or just clean them or leave them but I am sure after this amount of time all the good stuff will be long gone.
The back of the tank has small crustations if that's what they are on the surface should I clean them off or leave
My plan was first off all take it in to the garden whilst the good weather in the UK is still with us and fill it up and switch everything on to see if its works and learn how it works Good idea or not please tell me
And finally for now this is a great site as I have just read the posts from I think her name is Lucy from Hemel Hempstead very good. If that's not your name then sorry but I did not want to go out of this to find your name as I was terrified I would lose all this info. Computers not my strong point. I live up near Oxford but have a daughter in Hatfield
I hope this gets on as I have not a clue what all the other things mean Trackback, Tags ETC Last thing is there a spellcheck on here if not then sorry for any spelling errors
Thanks Forbesey
Not used to posting well except a letter in a mailbox. I have been keeping livestock for a great number of years now all sorts and even reached the heady heights of being a judge. I then took up fish keeping which I have been doing for the past 10 years or so. I have kept all sorts and along with my son breed Guppies I know but they do have a certain charm. Now after boring you all I will get to the nitty gritty. After much research I have decided to have a go at Marine and have purchased an ex display Red Sea Max from my L.F.S. took me a while to work out what LFS meant not stupid but of mature years. You can imagine my delight when I stumbled across this site and the forum for RSM see I am even doing it now abbreviating I mean.
Rights I intend to keep everybody informed on my progress.If I can work out how to include pictures I will. First off all here are some questions to begin with.
The tank was emptied of water and left in the shop before I purchased it.
No rock was left in but the sand was still there.
It then stood in my garage for some time as I was to busy to start.
When I opened the lid it smelt something awful
I managed to wet vac all the crud out of the bottom and it now smells off the sea or saltwater
I am nearly ready to go to the next stage but first I need to know the following
I would really like to clean it how do I go about that and what do I use
I have not even looked in the back as yet but I believe that it's still as it was in the shop all of the filter requirements still in place
Should I change all of them or just clean them or leave them but I am sure after this amount of time all the good stuff will be long gone.
The back of the tank has small crustations if that's what they are on the surface should I clean them off or leave
My plan was first off all take it in to the garden whilst the good weather in the UK is still with us and fill it up and switch everything on to see if its works and learn how it works Good idea or not please tell me
And finally for now this is a great site as I have just read the posts from I think her name is Lucy from Hemel Hempstead very good. If that's not your name then sorry but I did not want to go out of this to find your name as I was terrified I would lose all this info. Computers not my strong point. I live up near Oxford but have a daughter in Hatfield
I hope this gets on as I have not a clue what all the other things mean Trackback, Tags ETC Last thing is there a spellcheck on here if not then sorry for any spelling errors
Thanks Forbesey
VE your new adventure into saltwater, you got a good tank & lots of members here to cheer you along! I too started out with guppies as a child 
