Magma
Aquarium Advice Freak
So I have had FW tanks for years now and well like everyone I have talked to had mentioned, they are fun but Salt Water just seems to be more involved and fun in the long run.
So we (wife and I) after looking around picked up a Red Sea Max 130D. Its the all in one package and seemed like a great starter package, it was between the JBJ LED Nano Cube (26G) personally I wanted a little more space just in case.
I havent setup the tank yet but will be starting a cycle very soon I plan on running the cycle for probably a month just due to time constraints from work. So we need to know a few things before we start and we came here to find out.
1. Best salt to use, and how to add the salt to the water.
I know it sounds like a funny question but really how do you add the salt? premix your water and them dump into the tank? or fill the tank with fw then add the salt? and how about when you do water changes?
2. What kind of sand should I be picking up? we would like maybe white or black but so far we have only really seen a few choices and most are white.
3. What would fit best in a 33G tank for livestock? we wanted to do a shrimp or 2 and some crabs, maybe a snail
4. Live Rock....how do I know its cured? (or ready I guess) and how long should it cycle before adding cleaners/fish to the tank
5. Should I add corals before or after the fish?
What we wanted was some clowns (1 or 2), fire shrimp, crabs, starfish and probably some kind of sea anemone to start, probably some more soft corals later.
Thanks in advance we want to get some ideas from hobbyists before we went out and got all the wrong stuff or the wrong fish for our tank.
So we (wife and I) after looking around picked up a Red Sea Max 130D. Its the all in one package and seemed like a great starter package, it was between the JBJ LED Nano Cube (26G) personally I wanted a little more space just in case.
I havent setup the tank yet but will be starting a cycle very soon I plan on running the cycle for probably a month just due to time constraints from work. So we need to know a few things before we start and we came here to find out.
1. Best salt to use, and how to add the salt to the water.
I know it sounds like a funny question but really how do you add the salt? premix your water and them dump into the tank? or fill the tank with fw then add the salt? and how about when you do water changes?
2. What kind of sand should I be picking up? we would like maybe white or black but so far we have only really seen a few choices and most are white.
3. What would fit best in a 33G tank for livestock? we wanted to do a shrimp or 2 and some crabs, maybe a snail
4. Live Rock....how do I know its cured? (or ready I guess) and how long should it cycle before adding cleaners/fish to the tank
5. Should I add corals before or after the fish?
What we wanted was some clowns (1 or 2), fire shrimp, crabs, starfish and probably some kind of sea anemone to start, probably some more soft corals later.
Thanks in advance we want to get some ideas from hobbyists before we went out and got all the wrong stuff or the wrong fish for our tank.