1st reef tank, needs to be done cheap (I keep freshwater planted ecosystem aquariums)

[Camaro Show Corals]

Trust me, it wouldn’t me a waste of money. As a bundle, you get everything for a great value, probably the same cost as the supplies you’d need without the tank.
You could also use your existing tank as a cheap QT, something that I would strongly suggest! That’s what I did.

This is a great idea as you should always QT your fish and dip your corals.

 

[NoahLikesFish]

You won’t be wasting your money but you mind If we see this tank?

Ok

 

[Ricksreeefs]

Seems fairly easy to keep them, all they need is food flow and calcium from what I just read

lol it’s not!!! It’s incredibly difficult.

 

[NashobaTek]

You won’t be wasting your money but you mind If we see this tank?

Third this

 

[NoahLikesFish]

I have all My fish planned already I’m not getting a new tank

 

[Sharkbait19]

Take a look at my fluval 13.5 build as an example. I’m no expert, but I’m super happy with it, and it’s worked wonders as a first SW tank:

Fluval Evo 13.5 Build Thread

Hi, I’ve joined the site today and have been asked to about creating a build thread, and I think it would be a really fun idea! So i figured I’ll keep you all up to date with the progress! Day 1: Tank arrived! Can’t wait to fill this with water, sand, and rocks! Day 2: Sand and water are...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[NoahLikesFish]

That’s an aio

 

[NoahLikesFish]

Waste of money and it is an aio

 

[Sharkbait19]

I have all My fish planned already I’m not getting a new tank

Lol How have you planned your fish without even having planned the tank?? Besides, in a twenty you are very limited in what you can keep, so I wouldn’t have huge plans if I were you...

 

[Ricksreeefs]

Waste of money and it is an aio.

Plz explain to me how it’s a waste of money.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Waste of money and it is an aio

I would think that spending all this money for a system from scratch is more of a waste. Not to mention skipping on filtration but getting a lionfish which would die is a larger waste of money.

 

[NoahLikesFish]

I literally have a filter made for a 75 gallon tank

 

[Sharkbait19]

I literally have a filter made for a 75 gallon tank

And? You wanna vacuum your fish to death?

 

[NoahLikesFish]

Plz explain to me how it’s a waste of money.

It’s 160$ the filter is trash no heater you need a propriartery fluval heater and the light is weak

 

[NoahLikesFish]

600 gph won’t vaccum fish to death

 

[Sharkbait19]

It’s 160$ the filter is trash no heater you need a propriartery fluval heater and the light is weak

So the heater is $20 and the filter is pretty good. I’m still running my stock filter to this day, and have had not a single issue.

 

[NoahLikesFish]

I had a 400 gph powerhead in a 10 gallon tank (freshwater) with danios and they were fine

 

[Sharkbait19]

I had a 400 gph powerhead in a 10 gallon tank (freshwater) with danios and they were fine

Danios are very fast fish with little requirements. We’re talking about fish with really specific flow requirements.

 

[elorablue]

I don't know what's wrong with me but I love Noahs' threads! It's like being at Canadas Wonderland and going on every ride back to back to back to back........

BTW Noah, have you taken your Ritalin or not?

 

[NoahLikesFish]

30x turnover is too much for a reef tank??? I thought like acropora need like 60x turnover