Looking over the local classifieds someone got a tank from a friend and was going fresh water so needed to send the salt water stuff on its way and as always nothing was taken care of the tank had been taken down for many hours the fish was in a water pitcher, so I figured I could do better and grabbed my tank and set it up with some salt and threw the filter stuff in it and went to grab the fish with some rock, figured the rock would be able to maintain the water ok and I would make it work. Got the substrate and rock and single tomato clown and ran home, the fish was in super hot water as he had put a heater into the water pitcher, it seemed like 95+ when I felt the water, so put him in a bag to soak for 30 minutes and threw the rock, base and some of the water into the tank to mix. Well long story short here we are 3.5 days later. And the fish still lives and seems very happy to my amazement. Ordered some new salt mix (reef crystals) as my other was super old and a solid rock in the bucket but its salty. Got new bulbs on the way with a reef test kit and hopefully I will turn this into a nice little reef after sometime. Just debating if buying an ro filter setup is worth it with such a small tank, or get water from walmart or distilled water, I plan to upgrade later at some point but for now we will see. I have other tanks to keep me very busy. Hopefully the old rock and base are doing the job and I can push along with new salt mix and getting some stuff going fast as that's the fun of a tank is adding all the cool stuff, Im sure I will be asking for a little help as I have not done a salt tank for a while,
First need advice on snails and crabs to add to the tank, when do I add them? Its of course a clean tank but I can see a little old stuff on the rock like brown hair or what really thin though, of course animals that eat the stuff that grows is good.
Also a person gave me some reef stuff for the tank, should I start adding a little soon?
Here is what I have-
Reef builder
Reef buffer
Reef complete
Aiptasai kit?? What is this?
And sorry for the long wait here is the mini tank pic,
Sorry no 600 gallon salt tanks here.
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First need advice on snails and crabs to add to the tank, when do I add them? Its of course a clean tank but I can see a little old stuff on the rock like brown hair or what really thin though, of course animals that eat the stuff that grows is good.
Also a person gave me some reef stuff for the tank, should I start adding a little soon?
Here is what I have-
Reef builder
Reef buffer
Reef complete
Aiptasai kit?? What is this?
And sorry for the long wait here is the mini tank pic,
Sorry no 600 gallon salt tanks here.
Sent from my DROIDX using MonsterAquariaNetwork App