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Today I setup my Anemone tank. 50% water from an established tank. Specification as follows:

Tank Size: 45 X 30 X 30 cm

Light: 36 watt PLL (I will add some blue LEDs within next week)

Substrate: Aragonite

Rocks: MMLR

Water Circulation 300 liter per hour

Filtration: HOB filter (500 liter per hour)

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what is MMLR?

juanico wrote:what is MMLR?

yes, what is it? one of the biggest challenge in this hobby for me has been keeping up with the abbreviations, HM, HC, HMPK, HOB, PLL, BB, LR, RCS, FTS,

Nice anemone there... I will keep a close eye on this thread as I want to setup a small one myself.

MMLR is man made live rock
@ rajeevji congrats on the marine welcome to the beautiful side of marine hobby and plus expensive lol

Lighting is not enough for the anemone plus is the tank cycled ??
Why does the tank looks soo cloudy in the pic ?

Is the substrate new ??

jack wrote:MMLR is man made live rock
@ rajeevji congrats on the marine welcome to the beautiful side of marine hobby and plus expensive lol
Lighting is not enough for the anemone plus is the tank cycled ??
Why does the tank looks soo cloudy in the pic ?
Is the substrate new ??

thanks for the explanation.
but man made LR is a contradiction itself. LR's are dead coral rocks, highly porose, full of micro organisms...the actual filter in a marine tank.
the micro organisms can be only developed in months-years long soaking in the sea or a matured marine tank...everything else has no filtration effect and is NO LR...just a rock.
an anemone requires a matured tank with good LR filtration...i think it is a very hard job to keep it alive for more than just a few months long.

juanico wrote:

jack wrote:MMLR is man made live rock
@ rajeevji congrats on the marine welcome to the beautiful side of marine hobby and plus expensive lol
Lighting is not enough for the anemone plus is the tank cycled ??
Why does the tank looks soo cloudy in the pic ?
Is the substrate new ??

thanks for the explanation.
but man made LR is a contradiction itself. LR's are dead coral rocks, highly porose, full of micro organisms...the actual filter in a marine tank.
the micro organisms can be only developed in months-years long soaking in the sea or a matured marine tank...everything else has no filtration effect and is NO LR...just a rock.
an anemone requires a matured tank with good LR filtration...i think it is a very hard job to keep it alive for more than just a few months long.

Except unless you feed it regularly and use very high lighting. Plus its too early to put in an anemone in a new tank.

Thanks to all for their suggestion and advice.

All the material is old.Even water was also from old tank. So no problem of cycling.

@Jack, I am not new in the marine side of hobby. In past, successfully kept a low tech marine tank for two years.

Due to disturbance in substrate, water was cloudy.

Next week, I will add more light and a HOB skimmer. I am also planning to add a pair of mollies so that Anemone can get live food occasionally. I have also 3 watt blue LEDs but not able to joint those so planning a ready made lighting from Lajpat Rai market. I will dose with iodine and other required additives.

waiting more updates.

keeping eye on this topic for updates.

SCORPIO wrote:Thanks to all for their suggestion and advice.

All the material is old.Even water was also from old tank. So no problem of cycling.

@Jack, I am not new in the marine side of hobby. In past, successfully kept a low tech marine tank for two years.

Due to disturbance in substrate, water was cloudy.

Next week, I will add more light and a HOB skimmer. I am also planning to add a pair of mollies so that Anemone can get live food occasionally. I have also 3 watt blue LEDs but not able to joint those so planning a ready made lighting from Lajpat Rai market. I will dose with iodine and other required additives.

if possible as early as possible
sooner the better else green carpet ll loose its charm and need time to recover