Hi everyone!
This is my first post so I will provide a quick introduction of myself.
I live in Dubai and have just traded in my Juwel Vision 260 freshwater tank for my first ever marine tank.
I believe this is the first E260 in Dubai so I ordered it purely from internet research.
As I am a total noob at saltwater, I was really keen on the plug and play nature of the Max systems and when the E series came out with the LED lighting, I was hooked.
My experience with the system so far (5 days) has been really good. It was easy to build and set up. The tank itself looks great and the lights are amazing. I have some photos of the whole process:
I went for a coarse grain substrate so it wouldn't blow around in the turbulence and added about 30kg of cured live rock.
My local fish store said that I didn't need to use RO/DI water which surprised me but when I saw their tanks that were using bottled water, I went for that. RO/DI units are really hard to get here and bottled water is cheap but I hope I don't regret this decision!
The water became crystal clear in less that 2 days which was impressive and now I am just tinkering with the salinity level and getting the hang of using the multiple test kits that I now have! I did my first set of tests today with the following results:
Salinity: 1.024
PH: 8.2
Kh: 3.75 (10.5 dKh)
Calcium: 430
Ammonia: 0.0154 ppm (Not sure if I did the maths right on this one)
Nitrate: 10
My main concern is that the temperature is stable at 30 degrees, even in the air conditioned house. I would be very appreciative of any advice on whether I should just spring for a chiller straight away or whether I can focus on hardy fish and corals (which was the plan anyway) and leave it at 30.
I have also ordered a Tunze osmolator and have a 60 litre tub under the tank. If anybody has fitted one of these to a E series, I would appreciate a photo of where you put it.
So there you have it, I'm really excited to finally have a marine tank in the house and can't wait to start populating it!
Cheers
DT
This is my first post so I will provide a quick introduction of myself.
I live in Dubai and have just traded in my Juwel Vision 260 freshwater tank for my first ever marine tank.
I believe this is the first E260 in Dubai so I ordered it purely from internet research.
As I am a total noob at saltwater, I was really keen on the plug and play nature of the Max systems and when the E series came out with the LED lighting, I was hooked.
My experience with the system so far (5 days) has been really good. It was easy to build and set up. The tank itself looks great and the lights are amazing. I have some photos of the whole process:
I went for a coarse grain substrate so it wouldn't blow around in the turbulence and added about 30kg of cured live rock.
My local fish store said that I didn't need to use RO/DI water which surprised me but when I saw their tanks that were using bottled water, I went for that. RO/DI units are really hard to get here and bottled water is cheap but I hope I don't regret this decision!
The water became crystal clear in less that 2 days which was impressive and now I am just tinkering with the salinity level and getting the hang of using the multiple test kits that I now have! I did my first set of tests today with the following results:
Salinity: 1.024
PH: 8.2
Kh: 3.75 (10.5 dKh)
Calcium: 430
Ammonia: 0.0154 ppm (Not sure if I did the maths right on this one)
Nitrate: 10
My main concern is that the temperature is stable at 30 degrees, even in the air conditioned house. I would be very appreciative of any advice on whether I should just spring for a chiller straight away or whether I can focus on hardy fish and corals (which was the plan anyway) and leave it at 30.
I have also ordered a Tunze osmolator and have a 60 litre tub under the tank. If anybody has fitted one of these to a E series, I would appreciate a photo of where you put it.
So there you have it, I'm really excited to finally have a marine tank in the house and can't wait to start populating it!
Cheers
DT