ReefDragon
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Hi everyone!
Hubby and I are just starting in the saltwater side of things, but we are super excited to be doing it. Both of us have always wanted a marine tank, and life has finally given us the option to go for it!
We have a 75Gal tank with a fluvial 306 canister and a coralife light fixture with two T5's and two actinic. (Blue tube lights?). We weren't intending to start out with this equipment, however, we were offered it all as a secondhand package and the price was too amazing to pass up.
We also have a 300-watt heater with controller and probe, an aquatop powerhead rated at around 1300 gph, as well as 60 lbs of "fine" sand, and around 60-70 lbs of caribsea liferock.
It's only been fully set up for the last day and a half, and the temp is remaining pretty stable around 77.6-79.0 *F. Salinity is a bit harder to get into a proper zone, it's hovering around 1.028, I have heard that it can take a day or two to completely stabilize, though, So I will be monitoring that over the weekend.
Anyway, I think that is everything we've done with it so far! :) Here are a few pictures from last night.
This one is just the white lights,
And one with both sets of lights.
And to answer a few questions I'm sure will be coming:
Hubby and I are just starting in the saltwater side of things, but we are super excited to be doing it. Both of us have always wanted a marine tank, and life has finally given us the option to go for it!
We have a 75Gal tank with a fluvial 306 canister and a coralife light fixture with two T5's and two actinic. (Blue tube lights?). We weren't intending to start out with this equipment, however, we were offered it all as a secondhand package and the price was too amazing to pass up.
We also have a 300-watt heater with controller and probe, an aquatop powerhead rated at around 1300 gph, as well as 60 lbs of "fine" sand, and around 60-70 lbs of caribsea liferock.
It's only been fully set up for the last day and a half, and the temp is remaining pretty stable around 77.6-79.0 *F. Salinity is a bit harder to get into a proper zone, it's hovering around 1.028, I have heard that it can take a day or two to completely stabilize, though, So I will be monitoring that over the weekend.
Anyway, I think that is everything we've done with it so far! :) Here are a few pictures from last night.
This one is just the white lights,
And one with both sets of lights.
And to answer a few questions I'm sure will be coming:
- We are planning on getting a sump with a refugium, somewhere in the 25-35 gallon range. Our stand is a little small, so a custom might be our only option.
- Skimmer is on the "soon to buy" list, but we would like to save up a bit first and get a higher quality one instead of skimping on the price. We also want to have it in the sump, so a HOB would be a bit tedious.
