200l Native Marine Irish Rockpool Aquarium (Status January 2014)
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2014
- Checkout my blog on irishrockpoolaquarium.com/ for more detailed info and pictures and collection trips reports etc
First video of my rockpool tank. Quality of the video is not great unfortunately, the camera is struggling to get a sharp picture from the aquarium for some reason.
Some of the featured species are...
Corkwing Wrasse (my favourite)
Common Blenny
Common Goby
Two Spotted Goby
Three Spined Sticklebacks
Fifteen Spined Stickleback
Hermit Crabs
Common Prawns
Humpback Prawns (various types)
Periwinkles
Flat Topshell
Clams
common Mussels
Various coloured Beadlet Anemones
Snakelocks Anemones
Dhalia Anemone
and many more...
Filmed with SD21 Pro
I haven't seen such a unique tank in such a long time. Absolutely amazing and refreshing to see something so different than the normal reef tank. I love it.
Thanks a lot Victor! It has been an amazing adventure and I am going to set it up again very soon and it will be even more amazing I think :-)
Beautiful tank! Great job! I have been running a 'rockpool' tank in a Fluval nano for 3 years now and have found it to be much easier than tropical marine. I collect water from the sea and keep it in 20 litre water carriers. 20% water changes every 2 weeks and regular fresh water top ups (for evaporation) and that's it as far as maintenance goes. One large piece of live rock takes care of filtration (no skimmer) I have several anenomes; beadlet, snakelock and strawberry plus a small edible crab and 2 small gobies. All from local rockpools. No fatalities except for some shrimps which lost their battle with the snakelocks. I have 2 observations to make from the experience of keeping this tank 1) Rock pool species are incredibly hardy. They can survive a temperature range from 12 - 26 degrees and sudden temperature changes don't seem to affect them at all. They are also very tolerant of changes to water salinity 2) Life is brutal in a rockpool! These creatures fight for their space, even the anenomes will defend their rock from other anenomes. The gobies are truly ferocious and they will eat whatever will fit in their mouths. I have seen 2 tiny gobies destroy a rag worm which found its way into the tank, they literally ripped it apart! If there was such a thing as a 2 meter goby no-one would swim in the sea! Now I'm going to have to come to Ireland to find some of those sticklebacks...
You can find Sticklebacks all over the place. In America as well, for sure in New England, but also I believe I have heard of them in a formerly polluted lake out west, possibly Washington state?
That is really interesting. I know this comment is 6 years old now, but was that really IT for maintenance then? 'Cause I was considering doing similar for my Fluval but can't really afford to shell out for a skimmer. Was the filter and filter media that came with the tank sufficient enough then? I was under the impression you would need more equipment for marine, but like you, my plan was to top up the water fortnightly direct from the sea anyway.
Very nice! Have to say it's the best looking native tank on youtube. I have just set a 4ft tank up for british marines with couple blennies etc to get going, I love the seaweed growth you have and hope to do similar. Kept trop marines, time to do local! Keep up the good work!
Thanks Andy for your kind words! Setting up that native tank is something you will never regret! Amazing whats going on and also great to explore the shores. Seaweed wise I think its very much lighting (6500k, LED, 54W) related and lots of flow (I have total around 12000lph). Checkout my blog, link in description, have a post and a page related to technical stuff. Might be of help. Good luck and let me know how you get on, Cheers.
I'm so glad to see others who try this... What temperatures do you have in your aquarium/how do you maintain them? Do all the plants survive despite hermit crabs and others? How often/how much water do you change? Do you take it from the sea?
+blacksea and others hej man, sorry just back from hols. I sync my temps and daylight times with what we have here naturally at the west coast of Ireland so right now the temp is as low as i can go without condensation at 12degrees. I use a D-D 750 Chiller. In the summer (september) the temp will be highest at around 17degrees.
Plants are not easy to keep (I dont spend enough time with it lately) but they are seasonal and come and go also heavily depends on light spectrum IMO. I had some massive growth of Codium without me adding any this year which was great. hermits here dont really eat plants in large portions its more snails.
I cant remember when I last changed the water, over a year, all values very stable, dont have many pelagic fish at the moment. yes I take it straight from the sea.
I want to spend more time with it during the winter (summer is for fishing/kayaking) and try to make a more recent video and change water more as it introduces more new plankton etc. All the best with your own projects and thanks for the comment and Happy new year :-)
nice setup, well done.
Thanks Toby. It's over a year now and things don't look as clean anymore ;-) have to make a new video
that anemone is so beautiful
Wonderful. I think tanks like these are so much more interesting that your standard tropical reef tank. I have some wild collected snail shells I picked up in Romania I want to incorporate into a small tank. I did plant to make it a mangrove display but now I'm thinking something like this. Hmmm.
Thanks, yes go ahead! Native marine is the most interesting in my opinion. And the collection and returning part from the shore is a great and very exciting part too. Good luck
very colorful even without corals...
Cheers. I will forward your compliments to mother nature hahaha ;-) Check out my newer videos, much better quality and more mature system.
Hmmm...hard to answer. If you dont overdo it with livestock like me then I would say it is easier to maintain than tropical marine as the animals are very hardy and you can find everything on your shore as well as the water but still a lot more work than with a freshwater tank I would say. Really depends on the filtration and skimming which has to be well oversized and the deep sand bed. A sump obviously also helps greatly as your adding watervolume and gives space to house the oversized skimmer. You need a good bit more gear to set it up compared to freshwater but then all the livestock, rocks and seaweed is free :-) Have a look on the "The Build" page and an early post about the setup irishrockpoolaquarium.com/2013/10/28/the-plan/ to give you an idea. Sorry but I cant really answer your question that easily. What species do you want to keep?
Sorry Cillian I forgot the most important part. If you dont have a cold place to put the aquarium or during the warmer months you need to consider a chiller to keep the temperature down especially if you dont use LED lighting.
Any updates on this tank? Just realized how old this video is. Would love to see how it has changed.
Hi Victor not sure if you have seen it already but I have a blog with all my journey on this native marine adventure. However due to moving house etc I had to take it down and am currently working on getting it back with DIY liverock background and different stocking in the next few weeks/months as I really enjoyed this project. Checkout my blog and you will see many updates and more pictures and videos also tons of tech details www.irishrockpoolaquarium.com . Currently I am mainly working on my indoor aquaponics project indooraquaponicsdiy.blog/ but I really want to get back into native marine again. Happy browsing ;-)
Are all three-spined sticklebacks euryhaline or do you have to catch them from the sea?
Good question. I do not know. I caught mine in a rockpool at the sea
Looks great Marius. I wish I could press the thumbs up button :-)
Thanks David, use the mouse ;-)
Amazing tank, so did u capture everything inside it ? Wish u went for a more relaxing music this one feels like smth bad is about to happen XP
Thanks yes all caught from local shores at the west coast of ireland. Checkout my newer videos with better quality. something bad is always happening for somebody in a rockpool. Its a dog-eat-dog world hahaha.
curious if a 6 foot rockpool community with 5 bearded rockling, longspined sea scorpion, corkwing wrasse, sand goby, rock goby, shannies, montagues blenny, some juvenile mullet and others would work
That would be very interesting but to be honest it sounds more like a gladiator fighting pit 😅 Especially sea scorpion, shannies and blennies are voracious predators. Also seen a Gobie pull out a hermit crab from its shell. They will certainly devastate anything smaller than them but I would assume they are okay with each other if similar size.
It would be a very different ecosystem like mine. I tried to keep a balance and very minimal predators (they usually went back after a few weeks) I like when small things show up as hitchhikers etc and thrive.
That obviously wont work in such a predator tank. I actually had a predator tank at some stage in another tank with Velvet crab, sea scorpion and Montagues Blenny. But like I said its very different you cannot have a "cleanup crew" or at least not for more than one night 😅 So it becomes hard to manage and you need a very beefy filter, its cool as those predators are also very interesting to watch but its more a species tank for the predators rather than an idyllic rockpool ecosystem if that makes sense.
Of course it depends highly on the size of the tank and amount of hiding spaces etc. 6 foot sounds big but all depends on depth and height and structures inside.
Sorry for the long non-answer 😅 hope it helps make a decision. If your goal is to have those predators then I would say go with either a full ecosystem with cleanup crew etc and then add predators slowly once its established a bit and see how it goes. Or go with a predator fighting pit from the beginning and know you wont be able to sustain much else than the predators, but its very fun to watch them feed 😅
Also some others i didnt mention from your question.
- 5 beared rockling is cool but might not be very active during the day/light, will get fairly big, might be hard to feed, unless you feed at night
- Corkwing is super cool to watch, should be safe enough from the other pedators, i had one most of the time in my tank you should see it in some of the videos. Very active and very interesting to watch them. (I think this is be species I would advise the most to keep)
- Mullet should be alright as they are swimming in the water column, will probably get eaten by the sea scorpion though unless they are larger than its mouth or stomach rather
@@mariusaquaticus3102 thank you for your response. this was something i was pondering after i came back from my holiday in a cornish beach but unfortunately this tank will not happen unless i manage to move to somewhere near the coast [ likely not going to happen ]. if i did move near the coast i would like to try several different coldwater native setups including some for specialist tanks and others for peaceful invert tanks
@@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030 well sorry to hear but I hope you will one day move closer and get to setup some native tanks
@@mariusaquaticus3102 yea in all honesty despite me being a freshwater aquarist i am super passionate about the ocean creatures found in places like the uk. interestingly native marines were relatively popular a decent while back but nowadays hardly anyone keeps them. maybe bc the tropical freshwater and marine hobbies overshadow this aspect of fishkeeping but it may be for the best as too many people collecting creatures would be bad for the enviroment
@@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030 same here totally agree, however the native marine hobby brings awareness too and with it comes (hopefully) more respect for nature. But yeah if it was super popular you would surely have some exploit it and sell the animals from the wild etc.
Did you catch the fish from the sea as well?
yes 100% of all you see in this tank is caught from the wild rockpools along the local shoreline with greatest respect :-)
@@mariusaquaticus3102 did the tank itself cost much?
@@netanelelias7073 highly depends what you want in terms of size, cheapest is usually if you buy a standard size from a shop unless you go into bigger than 200L i would say. This one is 200L with low iron front and sides. Also it was a very custom size as I wanted it to be deep and wide on the side so it was custom made. 800x500x500 i think it was around 350€
@@mariusaquaticus3102 that is an amazing price
Is an aquarium like this easy to set up and maintain??
That's wonderful! Takes a lot of work & set^up, nice result.
surethingsfly Thanks a lot! its does but the reward of observing our native species is well worth it :-)
Hi Cillian, think I made a mess with the commenting not sure if you can see my replies on your question?
What beach did you go to
all sorts of places between Grafton Beach (surprisingly good) in Galway town, Furbo beach, Tra Mor near Spiddal and my favourite Coral Beach in Carraroe. To be honest almost every beach will have plenty of life to checkout. It all depends if there is plenty of rocks and rockpools at the low tide mark. Just be respectful, try not to dmagae ecosystems and put rocks back the way they where ;-)
What’s the yellow one?
Which yellow one LOL? You probably mean the big fish? Thats a 15 spined Stickleback (Spinachia spinachia). Or you mean the Cockle? the Snails? The seaweed? The Anemones? maybe tell me the timestamp of the video then it would be easier ;-)
@@mariusaquaticus3102 Haha sorry! Middle of the screen on 22 seconds?
@@kalinkakid Yeah that long skinny fish is a 15 spined Stickleback (Spinachia spinachia) Honestly wouldnt recommend to keep this unless you are willing to catch or breed Mysis shrimp as it didnt eat anything else but live Mysis shrimp. Its mouth is perfect for that ;-) Ended up respectfully returning it to the Ocean where I got it as it was getting skinnier. But certainly a cool fish. In case you mean the yellowish Anemone in the background thats a common enough Beadlet Anemone just a rare-ish yellow color variation, mostly they are red here.
Name of song please mates 🙏
I will try and find it and post it here, "Nebula"-something ;-) cant remember
What is the name of the long yellowish fish at the top of the tank at the beginning of the video?
Sorry missed your comment, better late than never its a 15spined stickleback. Very hard to feed. Only fed well on live mysis shrimp.
@@mariusaquaticus3102 Gammurus work well too, quite easy to collect on a low tide, fucus serratus over sand, lift it and they'll all be one the sand, use a net to seperate them form the sand in water.
@@seatrust4102 yes good idea. Very easy to catch also under rocks so you dont even need to get wet ;-)
the snakelocks (4.20) . . do they live for ever? here's one ripping itself in two. . .so no concept of old and young? www.seashoreantics.com/sea-anemone-tears-itself-into-2-over-12-hours-1min-timelapsed/
Very interesting question, but sorry I dont know. They do split multiple times, I believe offsplits will split again themselves from my observations but I have no proof of that. I started with about 4 and ended up with 17 within a few months!
from 4 to 17, that's interesting, thanks for info. . . tank looks neat btw
Thanks. It started to be a bit of a plaque to be honest ;-) one of them the oral disc was about 7cm diameter it was massive, never seen one this size in the rockpools, I thought it might be sort of the "mother" and all the others came from it but could also be that it was just in a very good location to catch lots of snails. There was quite the snail shell graveyard under it ;-)
btw in case you havent noticed this video is quite old and was the tank in its infancy, checkout my blog for more "recent" stuff and more videos and tons of pictures www.irishrockpoolaquarium.com
made a note, thanks
I feel like the Marine side of the hobby is lagging behind the Freshwater side. People are constantly pushing the envelope in Freshwater, with blackwater, Biotopes, coldwater, new aquascaping styles, new materials, no filter, hell even self-sustaining tanks which you don't have to feed. But when it comes to saltwater, all I see is mostly same-looking reefs, all built the same, with the same color lighting, and almost none of it is remotely natural looking.
All in all, saltwater has so much potential, but it never seems to get utilized.
100% agree. That is why I went for this approach I wanted something close to nature that doesnt need crazy amounts of equipment and maintenance. Its amazing how well this tank was balanced at times when I didnt go too crazy with the stocking. And also so much cheaper!
Reef tank actually are more limited than freshwater because corals need specific lighting and you cant just throw bunch of stuff like you would on freshwater, it has to be compatible or there would be a coral war.