Recent content by Don424

Nice looking arrangement underneath the tank...............and it looks like an electrical fire waiting to happen.

yeah............and a lot of cash!! :drinking:

Where is the best place to get good(life like) reef replicas for for a FO tank?

Babysitting income could probably only support a 16 gallon tank in this crazy hobby. Stick with the freshwater until you have better income but you could take the 16g tank and make a small biotope/nano tank.........1 nice piece of live rock, strip light, 1 -2 small pumps, 1 inch of aragonite...

I agree with Austinsdad................your bioload is way to high

You need to determine if you want a fish, reef or mixed reef tank. Whatever way you want it, just have it so doesn't have it look like a rock pile like most of the tanks you see on these sites .

Live sand isn't needed. As to CC, ANY substrate will require maintenance........don't be fooled by anyone saying there's NO maintenance with this or that substrate. Any maintenance will be relative to the bio/fish load you have in the tank regardless if it's CC, aragonite or sand. You might look...

Your lighting is fine. If you want coraline to grow, you'll need calcium and make sure your magnesium is high enough :)

That type of maintenance would go for a canister also........correct?

Were you vaccuming your tank bottom at all?

In a FOWLR setup isn't it necessary to be maintain calcium at around 450 so coraline will grow?

dorian...........after you put the filter back together, it fills itself back up? That's great.............does it fill before you turn it on, or after? I thought you had to prime it by pouring water down a tube into it to fill it and than you can turn it on. Am I wrong? :(

75 galsalt...................what type of tank are you thinking of setting up....FO, FOWLR or mixed reef. Though it may strike you as a mundane question, it is important and I should have asked you this before. :D

I agree........bigger is better. Melosu58........how do like your excaliber skimmer?

I'd say get the XP3. I'm in the same process you are and I've been debating between the XP3 and a Fluval 404. The Rena's have been getting good reviews but I like the fact that in the Fluval, the foam pads are easily accessible on the side of the inside of the canister....therefor you don't...