A Little Fishy
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I need help to get started with a reef tank my neighbors have had, I have heard different stories and noticed different things about it.
The story of what I heard from the husband is that he wanted to keep lobsters in it, grow them up, breed them then eat them, however he learned how many years it would take for him to be able to do that then he gave up..
Now the story from his wife is that,
They left for vacation and turned down the temperature too low and thus no more tank.
Now what I've noticed,
When we were bringing it over I noticed a couple bottles encased in salt in the bottom of the tank (I received the tank full of bleached rock and salt) the bottles I found were 1) water de Chlorinator 2) fish sickness bottle...
Now with that being said, I have started getting rid of the salt with some water then scooping out the hard scapes they had inside along with some substrate, is this substrate safe to use IF the fish had a sickness? Also this substrate isn't just sand, it's a mix with some jagged freshwater gravel, should I be concerned?
Secondly he's given me tubes to a canister filter..? Shouldn't it go to a sump then from the sump there is some filter as well as a protein skimmer? Or am I mistaken on how this is performed, should I purchase an overflow box then go to a sump?
Is there a used for this bleached live rock? Or I guess if the substrate is not recoverable then no.
I'm sure I'll have lots of questions and will always appreciate help, follow this thread if you are generous enough to lend a hand as I'll continue to post roadblocks of this adoption as well as the start up.
-A Little Fishy.
The story of what I heard from the husband is that he wanted to keep lobsters in it, grow them up, breed them then eat them, however he learned how many years it would take for him to be able to do that then he gave up..
Now the story from his wife is that,
They left for vacation and turned down the temperature too low and thus no more tank.
Now what I've noticed,
When we were bringing it over I noticed a couple bottles encased in salt in the bottom of the tank (I received the tank full of bleached rock and salt) the bottles I found were 1) water de Chlorinator 2) fish sickness bottle...
Now with that being said, I have started getting rid of the salt with some water then scooping out the hard scapes they had inside along with some substrate, is this substrate safe to use IF the fish had a sickness? Also this substrate isn't just sand, it's a mix with some jagged freshwater gravel, should I be concerned?
Secondly he's given me tubes to a canister filter..? Shouldn't it go to a sump then from the sump there is some filter as well as a protein skimmer? Or am I mistaken on how this is performed, should I purchase an overflow box then go to a sump?
Is there a used for this bleached live rock? Or I guess if the substrate is not recoverable then no.
I'm sure I'll have lots of questions and will always appreciate help, follow this thread if you are generous enough to lend a hand as I'll continue to post roadblocks of this adoption as well as the start up.
-A Little Fishy.