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Hi. i am thinking of purchasing a 24 gallon nano cube and am not sure how much live rock and sand i shoule get for it ? also i am wondering do i need to get a protein skimmer or would my tank be fine about it ? i am also going to purchase a 100 watt visi-therm heater is that enough for that tank ? i am gong to be using R.O water when doing the salt mixtures would that be ok for the fish and invertabrates, also is their anything else i need to purchase for the aquarium?

Any links would be useful.

Thanks

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SaltWaterNewb

LR you want 1 - 1 1/2 pounds per gallon. Sand, you want enough to give you about an inch deep sand bed. Not sure how many pounds that would be but you should be able to eyeball it.

 

100 watt heater should be fine unless the tank will be in a cool area of the house (basement) then you might bump up to a 150 watt.

 

RO water = GOOD

 

Other things:

Test kit - API Reef and SW Master kits

Refractometer

Thermometer

Power head for additional flow

Acrylic safe mag float or similar

Water change equipment - Bucket, power head, heater

Tubing for siphoning during cleaning and water changes

 

I am sure there is more, that is just a very basic list.

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aquascaper08

Get about 20 pounds o live sand. Don't get the shelly kind but rather a good sugar sand. the particle are much smaller and help keep alge down. The rock is a tougher question. different types of rock weight differnt things. Tonga Branch is lighter the florida rock. Sort of decide what type of scape you you want and start buying rock that way. Put some in and see how it looks. As a generl rule though about 1 pound of rock per gallon of water should to ya. Remove the Bio Balls from the 2nd chamber as they attract Alge too. some people say to take ou the carbon also but mine is doing fine now with it in. If you havent already get a good API test kit because you'll need it. Add you rock 1st then the sand so that the sand holds the rock in place so you cuc wont tople it over. BE PATIENT!!! dont add a cuc or a fish untill the cycle in the tank has completed and then wait anoher week. You get a large spike in Nitratites and Nitrates (hense the testin kit) that will then go back down to zero. This is the completion of you cycle but as i advised before wait another week and test again to make sure. Use this time to research the coral you will want to put in and add it one at a time. I know it sucks but after a couple of months you'll have a healthy and beautiful tank!!

 

Welcome to the hobby :D;)

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Hi. i am thinking of purchasing a 24 gallon nano cube and am not sure how much live rock and sand i shoule get for it ? also i am wondering do i need to get a protein skimmer or would my tank be fine about it ? i am also going to purchase a 100 watt visi-therm heater is that enough for that tank ? i am gong to be using R.O water when doing the salt mixtures would that be ok for the fish and invertabrates, also is their anything else i need to purchase for the aquarium?

Any links would be useful.

Thanks

 

General rule is about 1.5 to 2lbs of rock per gallon so you're looking at roughly 48lbs give or take 5 lbs. It also depends on your aquascaping plans too.

 

I'm not sure what to tell you about the protein skimmer. Right now I'm trying to decide on getting one or not. I've been told that with my size tank (a 25 gallon) weekly water changes should be good and that's what I've been doing so far. I still think I'll end up getting a protein skimmer since my next project is a DIY sump.

 

The 100 watt visi therm heater will be fine i'm using a 75 watt visi therm on my tank and temperatures have been pretty stable.

 

I don't mix salt :)

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SaltWaterNewb

I actually asked the same question last week about when to start skimming as far as tank size is concerned and the overwhelming majority, well, 100% of the responses actually supported anything over about 10g-12g should be skimmed. Now I am not sure about factors like bioload or anything like that. I have a 10g tank that will have no fish, just coral, CUC, and a few crabs so my load will be very small. However I am thinking about upping the tank size because for me the 10g is seeming to cramped and even though at the moment my plans are going to still be no fish, I figure once I get that bigger tank I am going to be more tempted to add fish, thus I am going to need to skim. So I would say if you have fish, yes to the skimmer. No fish, 24g tank you might get by without.

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