What Would I need to setup a basic beginners level saltwater tank for crabs, and other inverts like starfish and sea urchins, and snails, and what ever lse comes in on the live rock.
Questions on salt invert tank setup.
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Pretty easy...I had a friend do this. Go to petco, get yourself:
1 ten gallon aquarium
1 lighting system. anything you can buy will work here since you dont want to keep much...at least 15w of light I would recommend.
-If you can, go to www.aquatraders.com and buy yourself their smallest powercompact lighting system. This will probably be as cheap as anything you can buy anywhere else, and would allow you a higher quality of light in your tank, and the ability to keep some soft corals if you want to.
1 slightly oversized HOT (hang on tank) trickle filter
-I usually replace whatever they have in there with my own filter media, chemipure or purigen is what I would recommend.
1 aquarium heater
1 small powerhead for water circulation
1 hydrometer
1 bag of crushed coral
1 aquarium background...or you can paint it...use paper...do what you feel
1 bag of aquarium salt.
Some live rock
First you have to set the tank up. The salinity should be 1.023-1.024.
Run the tank with the lights, filter, heater, powerhead for a week...then add the rock you want in the tank. Run this for a couple weeks, removing dead things on the rock until there is no more dieoff and your water quality tests good. (I would say probably three weeks, with a weekly water change 25%)
You now have everything you need to have a small nano reef. You could put all sorts of small inverts in here and they would be happy. You could even have a small fish, and some hardy soft corals. Post again if you want more info.
1 ten gallon aquarium
1 lighting system. anything you can buy will work here since you dont want to keep much...at least 15w of light I would recommend.
-If you can, go to www.aquatraders.com and buy yourself their smallest powercompact lighting system. This will probably be as cheap as anything you can buy anywhere else, and would allow you a higher quality of light in your tank, and the ability to keep some soft corals if you want to.
1 slightly oversized HOT (hang on tank) trickle filter
-I usually replace whatever they have in there with my own filter media, chemipure or purigen is what I would recommend.
1 aquarium heater
1 small powerhead for water circulation
1 hydrometer
1 bag of crushed coral
1 aquarium background...or you can paint it...use paper...do what you feel
1 bag of aquarium salt.
Some live rock
First you have to set the tank up. The salinity should be 1.023-1.024.
Run the tank with the lights, filter, heater, powerhead for a week...then add the rock you want in the tank. Run this for a couple weeks, removing dead things on the rock until there is no more dieoff and your water quality tests good. (I would say probably three weeks, with a weekly water change 25%)
You now have everything you need to have a small nano reef. You could put all sorts of small inverts in here and they would be happy. You could even have a small fish, and some hardy soft corals. Post again if you want more info.