My first Saltwater Tank!

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d20monsteroscar20 said:
$1,200? on a 55? thats more than my pay check can handle. but anyways, I hope what you saying is right. cause I m not the one to give up easily so therefore I will add some mollies and cleaner shrimp in there for a lil while and see where Im at.

Again I appreciate all of you guys help! I m also working on some picts soon, but with only one digital camera in my house thats nearly iimpossible(everyone uses but cant tell me where they place it)
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I have over $5000 on my 75 gal. Reef, where as I have only about $1000 in my 120 gal fresh. When I started with a 29 gal, I had 1500 into it, then I upgraded. Oh, and if no one told you, it is not a hobby, it is an addiction. And also, reef tanks look ugly, b4 they turn to art. And if you can, build it yourself, you will save *** loads of money.

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Tanx for the pict, you made my night and now that all I will dream about. One think I was concern too was how expensive the light bill will get. my parents already were treating to kick me out because of the light bill on the cichlids one with this new adventure I think I will have to find my own place sooner than I tought. Do you have any more close shoots? (very close:D )
 
d20monsteroscar20 said:
I Have a power head that I believe is alil too strong for the 29 I had a normal Aquaclear filter in there, but thinking of replacing with a skimmer ( which is both a filter and protein skimer all in one) but thats like 50 bucks for a small one!
I have normal flourence lights in the tank. I heard that powerGlo or marineGlo are very gud for the saltwater, what do you think? does anyone uses that type of lights ?
The lights stay on for about 7 hrs but I m staring to think that, thats too long.
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Proper flow for this size of tank would be 290 gph-580 gph. If you are talking the Skilter, forget it, piece of junk, jmo. On my 29 gal I had the Penguin 350, and seaclone 100, and a powerhead that put out 170 gph. When talking salt the more current the better. you want lots of surface disruption. If you can see through the water at the top you do not have enough flow. Keep your lights in for about 12 hours a day, most of the organisms come from the tropics. Ok, your NO lights, do you have single or double tube?? IF Single, buy a bulb that is 18K you will not be keeping corals with this light fixture. If a double tube fixture is what you have, buy 6500K and 18000k. Under these lights you will be able to keep most zoanthids, and many mushrooms (excluding mainly ricordea-hairy mushrooms) And with personal experience, I only had to empty my protein skimmer once amonth on this size of tank, skip the skimmer, just do a 5 gal a week water change, should be good.
 
sw setups are broken into three categories

1. fo= fish only
2.fowlr= fish only with live rock
3.reef- live rock corals inverts compatible fishes macroalgaes ect.

you could get a fowlr or a fo going with your 29, but not for a small sum. if you wanna try out sw low budget, i would start out with a nano system. i think anything between nano, and say 55 gallons is a waste of time. options 1 and 2 just seem a bore IMO. i am currently starting my first sw project tank now, starting with the 55 that i recently broke down after getting the 125. i am assembling all the equipment to do it properly the first time around. i started out with an empty tank, stand and hood.(plus the heater and 2 emperor 400's that i wont be using) now i have aquired 260w of compact flourescent, and a skimmer. i spent about $200 and i still need to come up with a sump/refugium/bio-filter, overflow, and return pump plus all the plumbing before i can even think about making some suitable water to get it running with. all i have covered is the tank, suitable lighting(which is not needed for option one, and only somewhat necesarry for # 2.), and mechanical filtration. you could hav a stocked nano for that much........catch my drift. i dont think a any of the three types of sw tanks are anything to rush into just because you have a spare tank. you could much more easily, economically, and efficiently improve on your fw keeping skills by trying say, a species specific bio-tope, or a planted tank. seems like a rant, but just my two cents.
 
I wish. thats a local petstore new saltwater tank. I know it looks crapy and its only my fault because we moved the live rocks around so much its not funny. The funny part about that tank is that it doenst have a protein skimmer neither the best lighting, however some corals are doing better than expected. So with the live rocks I purchased I m going to have patience till my tank is done cycling.
By the way the pict of the blood parots and yellow lab are only there for those who like em species (I personally dont like blood parotts).

Picts of my tank might be posted later today. however I really dont want too untill I feel it looks nice enough for me to show yall
 
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