musho3210 Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 Hello, well a bit about how i started first. On december 2006 my mom and i went to petsmart to buy dog stuff. As a joke i said "how about i get a fish tank for christmas" she very quickly said no. Well after the joke i thought about it and more and more i really did want a fish tank. So i brought up the topic a lot. We went to petsmart again another day and i was able to convince my mom to buy a fish tank. Oh boy was i excited, i planned freshwater of course. I bought a top-fin starter kit and a tank stand. The top fin kit included a top-fin 20 power filter, NO (normal output) fluorescent lights, and an all glass aquarium heater. I got all the equipment i needed including a book. I then joined a forum. Learning a lot of things i ended up buying more stuff for my tank since the original things i bought were no use. Mainly leaving the top-fin area for the more popular seachem and aquarium pharmacueticals etc. I upgraded my heater to a visi-therm stealth, i upgraded my filter to a bio-wheel, but i kept the lights. I upgraded my test strips to liquid tests. Not really paying attention i accidentally bought a reef test kit. Upon realising this at home i felt really bad since i felt that i wasted my moms money after all she had spent on me to start a new hobby. Very depressed i moved on without a liquid test kit. Then we got a coupon from petco where the liquid test kit was on sale and bought it then. After i bought the kit i started to want to upgrade tanks to a 55 gallon. I thought after i upgraded i would use the 20 gallon as a reef tank so that reef test kit wont go to waste. I started researching early january. I finally upgraded my freshwater tank to a 75 gallon and the 20 gallon was empty. I started buying equipment: NON-LIVESTOCK: 20H gallon tank 100w Visi-therm Heater Tunze Nano DOC skimmer 1 Maxi-jet 1200 with Flo attachment 150 watt 14,000k MH lamp (sunpod) Milwaukee instruments refractometer 25-30 pounds live rock 0-10 pounds base rock depending what would look good in my tank 20-30 pounds Carib-Sea Ooltic sugar grade aragonite sand, not live, aiming for 2.5 inches Reef Crystals Salt Melevs reef RO/DI unit Garlic Guard Omega one saltwater flake food phosban garlic guard API reef master test kit API saltwater master test kit AquaGloves Kent turbo calcium Kent marine buffer I have everything there right now and will take a group picture of it all. Here is what i plan on having as livestock LIVESTOCK: 2 O. Clownfish 10+ Blue Legged hermit crab, amount will depend on how much algae i have 6+ Astraea Conehead Snail, amount will depend on how much algae i have 6+ Nassarius Snails, amount will depend on how much algae i have 1-2 Peppermint shrimp OR Scarlet Skunk Cleaner 0-1 Emerald Crab, amount will depend on how much algae i have Mushroom corals Polyp corals Lots of LPS (want it to be an lps dominated tank) Maxima or crocea clam May include some macro algae. Various hitchhikers i will be expecting from the live rock So here is the start of my reef log, i will set up my RO filter tomorrow and my tank will get filled up tomorrow. Link to comment
musho3210 Posted July 7, 2007 Author Share Posted July 7, 2007 Installed the RO/DI filter, flushed the first 5 gallons. TDS readings are: Before RO - 187 After RO - 008 After DI - 001 Link to comment
Maco Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 Sounds like your off to a good start.. I wish my parents would have let me upgraded my freshwater tank when it started to crack. -Mac Link to comment
musho3210 Posted July 8, 2007 Author Share Posted July 8, 2007 ok i got some pictures of my equipment now: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/mus...nt=CIMG0496.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/mus...nt=CIMG0503.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/mus...nt=CIMG0498.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/mus...nt=CIMG0499.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/mus...nt=CIMG0500.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/mus...nt=CIMG0501.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/mus...nt=CIMG0502.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/mus...nt=CIMG0503.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/mus...nt=CIMG0505.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/mus...nt=CIMG0506.jpg Link to comment
musho3210 Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 Some long awaited pics... Tank and stand Protein skimmer: Tunze nano DOC 9002 Heater: Visi-therm stealth 100 watt heater Maxi-jet 1200 Light: 150 watt sunpod 24" RO/DI unit: Link to comment
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