Recently got back into the aquarium hobby and have become super interested. Got my community tank running and now my puffer tank almost cycled. Starting to think now that owning oh marine tank can become a realist for me. Have done a lot of reading and going over what I need to buy and what it will cost. If I do it, I wanna do it right.
Plan is to get a tank size between 30 & 40g. Don't want to have to get a sump tank. So I guess limit might be 30g.
Just making a list if what I need. Let me know if I am missing anything
Light strong enough to eventually get lower light corals
Protein skimmer. (Do I need for a 30g)
Heater
POwer head for flow
About 30-40 lbs of rock. What percent of that needs to be Live rock.
30lbs of marine sAnd
Test kit
Salt
Do I need a RO machine or since a smaller tank just buy when I need to do water changes
And of course stock
Am I missing anything? About how much what this setup cost before I stock. Just trying to put a bit of money away each month so I can afford to do this soon.
Ty for all answers
Wanna make it a FOWLR but have the ability to upgrade at some point to lower light corals.
Plan is to get a tank size between 30 & 40g. Don't want to have to get a sump tank. So I guess limit might be 30g.
Just making a list if what I need. Let me know if I am missing anything
Light strong enough to eventually get lower light corals
Protein skimmer. (Do I need for a 30g)
Heater
POwer head for flow
About 30-40 lbs of rock. What percent of that needs to be Live rock.
30lbs of marine sAnd
Test kit
Salt
Do I need a RO machine or since a smaller tank just buy when I need to do water changes
And of course stock
Am I missing anything? About how much what this setup cost before I stock. Just trying to put a bit of money away each month so I can afford to do this soon.
Ty for all answers
Wanna make it a FOWLR but have the ability to upgrade at some point to lower light corals.