Tank setup

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monstermonkee

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Hi,

been reading on this board for a bit and haven't run across any threads regarding the set up of a ray tank. I'm a ex reefer, so i have lots of live rocks and such. I know a reef tank can be maintain on just liverocks alone depending on side but for a ray tank, do i need any thing special beside live rocks and good water movement? please educate me : ]
 
well im not much of a reefer but i do have a nano tank and i tryed to learn as much as possible before i started it took me about a year to learn all i need to know but for some education if your r goin for a natural enviroment with just live rock and good water movment and also depending on the size of your tank i would make sure u dont over stock the tank and i would at least have a protein skimmer one that can handel the waste build up and good lighting but like i said im not a experienced reefer but i have seen some tanks on the internet that are from 20 to 100 gallon with just live rock, very good water movment, and a good size protein skimmer and i would let the tank do one hell of a cycle before adding anything like fish or corals
 
hothew84;2252982; said:
well im not much of a reefer but i do have a nano tank and i tryed to learn as much as possible before i started it took me about a year to learn all i need to know but for some education if your r goin for a natural enviroment with just live rock and good water movment and also depending on the size of your tank i would make sure u dont over stock the tank and i would at least have a protein skimmer one that can handel the waste build up and good lighting but like i said im not a experienced reefer but i have seen some tanks on the internet that are from 20 to 100 gallon with just live rock, very good water movment, and a good size protein skimmer and i would let the tank do one hell of a cycle before adding anything like fish or corals
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oh no, this question was just regarding how to set up a ray tank, as i have not seen any threads about it. I want to make things as simple as possible and avoid using a sump or refugium.
 
UNKNOWN_MALONE;2253222; said:
from what I have seen, Most people used a very long and semi wide tank with sand and a hang on filter.
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for rays? where did you see this?
it's definitely possible to filter a marine tank on Live rock/sand alone. but it's hugely impractical.
 
alcohologist;2253552; said:
for rays? where did you see this?
it's definitely possible to filter a marine tank on Live rock/sand alone. but it's hugely impractical.
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so what should i do alcohologist?
 
skimmer, rock, refugium is the norm, and in my opinion the mininum. most add UV or a sand filter or both. there are loads of other filter types to choose. fluidized beds, algal scrubbers,
the problem with if you want to run your ray tank on live rock only, is it's going to have to be a BIG system. even more than you figure an elasmobranch setup will be.
 
For just SW rays, a large open bottom area, sand substrate, good lights, and lots of mechanical and biological filteration is needed.
Mechanical filter can be canister, HOB or a combo of both. Biological could be live rock, bio balls (or other plastic bio media), fluidized sand bed etc.... Sumps are great just because of the added water volume to displace the bio load of a ray.... which is much more than a similar sized fish.
 
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