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Hello Neighbor,
How's it going? Kind of excited to announce my wife and I's first reef tank. What I present to you is our new (to us) tacticle-sized reef tank. It's a Lifeguard 7 gallon with built in back filtration chambers that my wife and I picked up second hand from Facebook marketplace. We brought it home, cleaned it up and did a little rearranging in the filter back and decided to try our hand at a reef tank. We picked up about 9 pounds of rock, a mixture of live and dry, and 5 pounds of marine sand. We live in a tiny little town in Iowa that surprisingly has, and I guess has had, a pretty famous LFS in it for years. So, we have been buying locally trying to support them. I picked up a bag of reef crystals and bought RO water from them since we don't have a unit yet (15 cents a gallon!) and set it up in our living room. I turned the light on for the photos and have it off while the tank is cycling. I'm picking up a master test kit on Wednesday and will see how well the filter is working and hope to have a couple tiny snowflake clowns in it in a couple weeks. I appreciate any advice, tips, pictures, or constructive criticism people have! Thanks for checking it out!
How's it going? Kind of excited to announce my wife and I's first reef tank. What I present to you is our new (to us) tacticle-sized reef tank. It's a Lifeguard 7 gallon with built in back filtration chambers that my wife and I picked up second hand from Facebook marketplace. We brought it home, cleaned it up and did a little rearranging in the filter back and decided to try our hand at a reef tank. We picked up about 9 pounds of rock, a mixture of live and dry, and 5 pounds of marine sand. We live in a tiny little town in Iowa that surprisingly has, and I guess has had, a pretty famous LFS in it for years. So, we have been buying locally trying to support them. I picked up a bag of reef crystals and bought RO water from them since we don't have a unit yet (15 cents a gallon!) and set it up in our living room. I turned the light on for the photos and have it off while the tank is cycling. I'm picking up a master test kit on Wednesday and will see how well the filter is working and hope to have a couple tiny snowflake clowns in it in a couple weeks. I appreciate any advice, tips, pictures, or constructive criticism people have! Thanks for checking it out!