Native British Temperate Saltwater Marine Rockpool Aquarium Home Fishtank
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- Опубликовано: 1 янв 2015
- My Native British Temperate Saltwater Marine Rockpool Aquarium Home Fishtank. This I ran for around five years with various residents all caught by myself either in drop nets, push nets, pots or on rod and line. At various times I had cockle, mussel, clam, periwinkle, whelk, dahlia, plumose and beadlet anemone, shrimp, prawn, shore crab, edible crab, hermit crab, lobster, sprat, goby, tompot blenny, shanny, mullet, bass, dab, turbot, whiting, smelt, ballan, corkwing, goldsinny, wrasse, eel, sandeel, sea scorpion, turbot, sole, dogfish, cod, barrel jellyfish, brittlestar, sunstar and common starfish with varying degrees of success. This was laid on a thick bed of sand for biological filtration with regular water changes from the sea near my home. I ran an oversized air filter and oversized protein skimmer and the main diet was chopped frozen prawn from the supermarket. It was a beautiful and easy tank to run except for struggling in the heat of summer when the ttemperature rose inside the house - ideally a chiller unit is required for stability year-round. I removed it after a tank-crash as it had damaged the plaster on the wall of my lounge due to evaporation and splashing (I had no lid for the tank) Welcome to my channel, I hope you enjoy watching all the kayak fishing around the UK, mostly in the North Sea - in the sea and river, fishing for cod, bass, tope, dogfish, smoothound, thornback ray, whiting, wrasse and anything else I can target There's scuba diving off the North Norfolk Coast and Suffolk, wreck diving, reef diving, river diving, even Cenote Diving, in the Red Sea off Egypt, the Mediterranean off Malta and Gozo and in Mexico, Brazil, Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Pembrokeshire in Wales, Swanage and Plymouth and of course the diving with sharks in South Africa. There's kayaking too, including surfing sailing and touring in the UK and abroad and a bit of snorkelling, Plenty of videos too of me fiddling with and driving my classic car, a 1973 Triumph Spitfire and other cars get a look in too. There's cooking, eating, travelling around various cities in Europe - Berlin in Germany, Naples and Rome in Italy, plus the Vatican; Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv and elsewhere in Bulgaria; Lefkosia / Nicosia and much of Cyprus, Krakow in Poland, there's Malta too. Istanbul in Turkey just outside Europe too, and Egypt around Hurghada. Further afield there's a bit of South Africa and Latin America with the Mayan Riviera of Mexico and Rio de Janeiro, Paraty and Isla Grande in Brazil. There's even a bit of Northern Ireland and parts of England mixed in with the nonsense of East Anglia in a camper van with my daughters! If you enjoy one video please watch another and consider subscribing so you don't miss future uploads however crap they might be! Thanks and regards, Mark
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This tank is amazing! I love rockpooling and really want to know how to create something like this!
You can do it! A deep sand bed for biological filtration, a selection of stone and rock, a good filter and air pump, a protein skimmer and a selection of creatures - small ones! Some from rockpools, some from pushnets, dropnets, traps or fishing really light and see what works and what doesnt!
The flat guys and sea stars are so cute 💕
They really are lovely aren't they!
You live near such a good rockpooling beach! I use heysham for rockpooling since half moon bay is next to a power plant so it is very good
Heysham in Lancashire? My grandfather was there on the anti aircraft defences during the war for a while. I slept overnight in my campervan there last month
The sea sticklebacks are amazing! In mating season they have red bellies and blue eyes
Yeah, they are a stunning fish for sure!
Cool tank mate! Subbed
Cheers
It's funny to see them how they behave, it also helps you learn a lil, I have a sea water tank, with wild crabs, shrimp, and one star fish, some of the shrimp got eaten by the crabs but i mean, in the wild it's the same, anyway loved this vid 😄
Yes, they probably survive longer in the tank than the wild mostly
sooo beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
Absolutely fabulous, and so many species, thank you for putting it on for us. What are the flatties?
Dabs and turbot. I have had sole from time to time too, they are great as they stick themselves to the side and you can see through them!
Fantastic, absolutely brilliant. I usually make wild freshwater tanks the same way using a net to catch little minnows and other freeshwater aquatic life including plants and live rock. I am interested in trying the same thing with the marine environment and I know the organisms that inhabit rock pools are more malleable as they are used to temperature and salinity "jumps" during the day as the tide goes up and down...
I was wondering if you just kept it at "home temperature" or if you use a heater/cooler. Thanks and again "complimenti".
+Alessandro Busetti Hi yes it's just at room temperature. I don't have my house heated too much, I set it to kick in at around 18 degrees in winter so that's the minimum, summertime obviously it warms a little but it's never that bad though I don't have a thermometer in there. I just moved the tank yesterday to my new house and into a room in the shady side of the house which I think will be slightly cooler. I can't grow plants though (need more light?) and shellfish struggle in the warmer montsh.
Its a great thing to do, Ive done it but sadly im not near a very good rockpooling beach, On holiday i found some little sand eels but i odnt have a battery pump so couldnt bring them home
One of my favourites in your tank is the shanny. But unfortunately they eat everything even barnacles
I loved them! They would come to the front and dance when they saw me. I don't recall them eating anything that I didn't put on as food (chopped prawn mostly). The bass killed off my gobies and the turbot went for everything and anything!
Is it a "room temperature"? or do you use a cooler/heater??? Thanx and amazing setup!
Room temperature
What was that eel looking thing? And what was the anemone eating?
Nice tank!
It was an eel. It survived for years until a tank-crash when I was on holiday. Grew from 10cm or so to about 40cm. The beadlet anemone is eating a goby
awesome tank, do you think a small huss would survive, as i sometimes pick them up about 6" long, think they would look well cool in a tank, until they got too big....
Try it! I've tried twice with small dogfish but neither survived very long as they didn't seem to feed but it's possible that the temperature, salinity or food wasn't to their liking. All tanks seem to be different - I can't grow seaweeds but others can, same with starfish, don't survive in my set up
That is really cool where do you get the fish and stuff from.?
some are caught on hooks, some in kids shrimp nets, some in drop nets, some in pushnets, some in collapsible pots and some in a throw net and the eels by turning rocks at low water. I just play about and the inhabitants change from time to time.
I just lift rocks at heysham beach (a beach part of the Irish Sea)and I catch flatfish,hermits,pollack,gobies,prawn,shrimp,anemones and more
@@tigerreefz966 i will go there
Hi mate, love this tank!! I’m in the process of setting a little one up myself, and if successful I will upsize considerably. What temperature is the water kept at? And do you think a average size prawn and a baby Ballan wrasse in the same tank will work? Thanks
this one was 30x30x120cm, that's the bare minimum size you can use for a temperate marine I reckon. I ran it at room temperature, it did struggle in the height of summer though, once it got above 20 degrees in the house I started to lose some fish. Prawns are absolutely fine with anything - inc ballan, corkwing etc - until they moult. Then they''re gone. Shrimps are attacked the moment they go into the tank by everything and those that make it into the sand bed to hide are rooted out within a day or two.
Codbotherer topman, appreciate the response. What size tank are you running now?
@@gavsgonefishing6751 I'm not. I shut it down last summer as it caused a lot of condensation (I had no lid) and took a large batch of plaster off my wall. Also,, the only place I could have it in my new place was in the lounge and the noise from the protein skimmer meant I had to turn the TV up too high so I decided the two things combined weren't worth continuing with. In general though - and I had it running 5 or 6 years I guess - it wasn't a lot of work. Put a decent sand bed down (5cm or so) and some good rocky reefs and your biological filtration is pretty much sorted. Run a skimmer and plenty of air through and it will remove most of the remaining crap. I used proper sea water and either topped up as needed or replaced large quantities every now and then (by which I mean maybe a month or two between changes) as it pretty much self regulated. Despite all claims to the contrary it was a very easy tank to run,
The bigger the tank the better by the way.
Codbotherer ah damn I can imagine that would get annoying after some time. Ok Brilliant thanks for all the tips man I shall take them with me 🤟🏼all the best, g
I love it! I live 1km from the sea, how often and how much do u change the water??
I used to do a coupe of gallons a week maybe. That said, it didn't 'need' it very often due to the effectiveness of the sand, filters and protein skimmer, the latter two being oversized for the size of tank. Biggest problem was evaporation as I didn't have a lid.
@@Codbotherer ok, thanks for the information 👍
That's fantastic mate. The flatfish swimming across the black background is almost surreal.
They really are!
Very nice aquarium, can you please tell me how many litters? do you have another video with the global view for all the aquarium ?
There's plenty of videos of it on my channel. Not sure if you can see the whole setup. I no longer have it though. It was around 30x40x120 from memory
@@Codbotherer thank you for your feedback, i have seen all of them and download them exept the realease of Pancake ! ;-)
Poor pancake! Evil bugger! Are everything he did
I had the tank for a few years but unfortunately we had a really hot summer and my fish started dying off.
@@Codbotherer you are right with climate change summers became more hot and without chiller or oversized fan it's not easy to keep sea cold water fishs
where did you find the small flounders? been looking into a british rockpool aquarium, but cant seem to find any around the north wales area.
omg UR from north Wales too!!!!!!!
i found loads at talybont beach near barmouth
Luckytudee they are very common on the south coast : Cornwall , Dorset , Hampshire , Sussex , Isle of Wight etc
try dragging a net on a sandy bottom beach, preferably sheltered, i catch many this way, almost any flatfish you want. This works on SW Wales anyway.
@@lucyhughes5802 me too !
Where is the place you got those from? I cant find any rockpooling beaches good as that
None of these are from rockpools. It's all dropnets, pushnetts and fishing with small hooks and baits in the harbour
It looks like a lot of your stock is on the Menu
Are they all eating one another?
A lot did. The little silver fish and the shrimps would just get obliterated.
What are the fish at the start ive caught them in the wild but i do not know what they are
Shanny - also known as common blenny
How did you get the anemones?
Just picked them from rocks at low tide
U can use a credit card or card to get them off but I wouldn't recommend it
I want to setup a tank like this where i am, What kind of Blennnies and shrimp?
Common rock goby,sole,flounder,common prawn and shrimp,velvet swimming crabs,shore crabs,edible crabs,brittle stars and things like that are what he use sin there,not sure about the fish Doe,best place to catch these where I live is half moon bay at low tide,lift rocks and you get stuff
Shanny. Common shrimp. Common prawn.
what does it need, just a filter and sea water?
And protein skimmer
Please tell us how to look after the water environment
Protein skimmer, air pump and filter, water changes here and there and a decent sand bed for biological filtation
@@Codbotherer can you please tell me the type and the Brand of the Protein Skimmer and the Filter ? Thank you in advance
Thick sand bed, protein skimmer, air filter and water changes
Sorry, I don't remember now.
@@Codbotherer Thank you for your feedback and it's realy sad that you gave up on aquarium keeping. you have success to run a nice and easy interesting salt aquarium very low cost except the Skimmer price i guess
Great looking tank, i'm setting up my 1000 litre aquarium as a native marine tank at the moment using sand, rocks and water from my local beach. What species do you find adapt best to aquarium life? Have you managed to keep any seaweed alive? Would love to try and keep a dogfish but not sure how well they would adapt to aquairum life, especially since I won't be using a chiller and temperatures will get to 19c..
Shanny, Ballan, corkwing, rock goby, bass, eel all did really well. Dogfish failed. Turbot were great but killed everything. Dabs were good too seaweed I couldn't keep alive. So long ago, this question, sorry. How was your tank?
What kind fish are in your tank
shanny, eel, goby, dab, turbot
size of the aquarium please
30x30x120cm approximately.
What kind of shrimp?
I (think) these are either Common Prawns or Palaemon elegans (Rockpool Prawns)
I catch the same shrimp as you’ve got and let me see I think you have common prawn yeah
Native English saltwater common Shrimp
Wildcaught
Yes
You had to of caught all off them
Yes I did, with hook and line, push net, dropnet and collapsible pots and always ensured variety - and it wasn't possible to replicate this from a shop. Great fun
Me and my dad are gonna do a tropical marine,cold water marine,cold water fresh,tropical fresh
That's going to be a nice selection!
Codbotherer yeah!we already have tropical marine and cold marine,my cold marine is a nano tank with 2 small filters,decent lighting,fish:shannies,shore crabs,swimming crabs,1 goby,1 blenny and we r also complete stocking the tank with anemones,we also have some oysters to filterfeed,prawn,we might try and get flatfish and we have clams to,that’s all!we are gonna try get our hands on some live baby flatfish so it can sorta “circle of life” The tank out a little
A bit cramped, but hey, I suppose that’s the nature of the rockpool.
certainly is
how many gallons?
also how is this sports?
look at the category
+Lucy Hughes dunno, 25 gallons maybe? 30cm x 30cm x 120cm approx. It continually evolves, currently housing 2 bass, 2 corkwing, 1 ballan, 1 eel, all larger than those shown on here - bass have been resident well over a year.
+Lucy Hughes No idea, probably the usual setting for my channel. Mind you, the fish go swimming quite a lot...
+Codbotherer cool thx it is because I am thinking of setting up one and I just ADORE the fish and I want something like yours
+Lucy Hughes the big issue is gathering them. get a large tank and it'll be more stable. Use sand as a bed, use rocks and don't overcrowd it. Protein skimmer is vital, large filter/pump is vital, plenty of light makes a difference. I use slate on the back wall, it has plenty of space for stuff to grow. Prawns are fine with smaller fish until they moult. Shrimps get eaten very quickly. Flat fish are awesome, need clear patches of sand. a chiller is required for many species.
Couldn't believe the fish got away from the flat fish at 05:12!
In the process of setting one up myself.
It's incredible! That turbot had to be released in the end, it was vicious!
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