Hi Guys,
What a great forum you have here. I've been reading for the last few days and can't wait to get the ball rolling on bringing my tank back to life. I took it out of storage today. If memory serves the tank is 65 gallons. Reef read tank by Oceanic. The filer uses bio balls. After that I am learing it all again. I read that you all like pictures so here is my tank and filter:
I am looking to have a farily simple tank set up. May be down the road I can try the whole reef thing, but would like to start slow and easy (not that maintaning any salt tank sis "easy"). So fish only, but can see that live rock has it's bio-benefits, so would like to try that out too.
I do have some questions, probably A LOT of questions...
I used dolomite the last time I had this tank in use (about a decade ago). Still a good option? I see a lot of you use sand..I like the way that looks better, but I am guessing it might be trickier to manage? I also so saw aragonite live sand at Pet Co... Looked intresting. So the question is, based on ease of management and function, what should I get for the bottom?
Is my bioball filter system god enough, or have things changed so much that I should consider updating it. Think those 10 year old balls are ok to use? ;-)
My plan is to go really slow. Clean this thing up. Get some sand/surface materials in and get salt water into the tank. That's as far as I want to plan for now...
I live in Foxboro, where are the most local/good stores? I went to the taunton/galleria mall store last night. Cool place, listening in, sounds like they know their stuff. The last time I had this tank running I lived in NY and had a GREAT shop near by. That seemed important to me, to make sure I stay on track, so any recomendations are greatly apreciated.
Thanks for having me, this forum is awesome - I know I am going to leanr a ton just reading and reading.
Jim
What a great forum you have here. I've been reading for the last few days and can't wait to get the ball rolling on bringing my tank back to life. I took it out of storage today. If memory serves the tank is 65 gallons. Reef read tank by Oceanic. The filer uses bio balls. After that I am learing it all again. I read that you all like pictures so here is my tank and filter:
I am looking to have a farily simple tank set up. May be down the road I can try the whole reef thing, but would like to start slow and easy (not that maintaning any salt tank sis "easy"). So fish only, but can see that live rock has it's bio-benefits, so would like to try that out too.
I do have some questions, probably A LOT of questions...
I used dolomite the last time I had this tank in use (about a decade ago). Still a good option? I see a lot of you use sand..I like the way that looks better, but I am guessing it might be trickier to manage? I also so saw aragonite live sand at Pet Co... Looked intresting. So the question is, based on ease of management and function, what should I get for the bottom?
Is my bioball filter system god enough, or have things changed so much that I should consider updating it. Think those 10 year old balls are ok to use? ;-)
My plan is to go really slow. Clean this thing up. Get some sand/surface materials in and get salt water into the tank. That's as far as I want to plan for now...
I live in Foxboro, where are the most local/good stores? I went to the taunton/galleria mall store last night. Cool place, listening in, sounds like they know their stuff. The last time I had this tank running I lived in NY and had a GREAT shop near by. That seemed important to me, to make sure I stay on track, so any recomendations are greatly apreciated.
Thanks for having me, this forum is awesome - I know I am going to leanr a ton just reading and reading.
Jim
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