pat8you
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The sand we bought is pretty fine and its getting down into our sump. Is this normal? any way to keep the sand out of the sump?
It depends. In a new tank you do want to be careful to add livestock slowly so the tank's biological filtration can catch up with the inccrease in bioload. Now is the time to get together a fish wish list. Start with one "must have" species and build the rest around that. Keeping in mind agression, reef-safe, etc. We can then offer comments once we know what you are interested in and offer advice on which order to add them.What is a good amount of fish to put in that size tank?
If you are interested in corals and other light-dependent inverts they researching lighting will by your next step...but that is a whole different thread.We were thinking about maybe adding corals later but not to many and thats down the line a bit when we know a bit more what we are doing and the tank in nice and broken in.
pat8you said:Thanks.
I will try to get together a list of stuff we wanna put in the tank.
These will be our first fish so we will not be using a QT. Thats mostly becuase we havn't gone out and bought a tank and supplies for a QT and the budget is tight after spending all the money to set up the tank. After we put our first fish in we will be waiting a while before adding anything else and will hopefully have a QT set up by then.