williemcd
New Member
I'm currently keeping about 700G of freshwater, raising Discus, and breeding various Angel Fish. I support my hobby with the sale of used equipment and Angel Fish youngsters.
I've been itching to give Salt a shot and stumbled upon a questionable foray into your world with a free 20G running set-up (3 years).
I took 4 5G pails plus a cooler and saved ALL of the existing water.. The tank had been neglected for the last month so there was only about 15G in the tank... along with some home-made structures made of shells and a 1-2" sand bed. So the tank was alive and well..supporting a clown and one other 1.5" unidentified fish. Upon getting it home, reloaded I tested the water with a cheap hydromiter.. And it was off the charts at greater than 1.028 (max reading on the cheap gauge). So over the course of about 5 days added RO water from my kitchen based, 4-stage RO dispenser.
Not wanting to invest too much at first, all I've added are 6 snails: 4 hermits, Nassarius and a turbo. Also with the tank, were two internal filters, (Looks sorta like Fluval II's... heater of course, and a std florescent fixture with a GE Fresh & Salt bulb.
I have a box of power-heads so will be swapping the filters out and counting, hopefully, on the sand and existing structure to maintain the bio-load.
I've been itching to give Salt a shot and stumbled upon a questionable foray into your world with a free 20G running set-up (3 years).
I took 4 5G pails plus a cooler and saved ALL of the existing water.. The tank had been neglected for the last month so there was only about 15G in the tank... along with some home-made structures made of shells and a 1-2" sand bed. So the tank was alive and well..supporting a clown and one other 1.5" unidentified fish. Upon getting it home, reloaded I tested the water with a cheap hydromiter.. And it was off the charts at greater than 1.028 (max reading on the cheap gauge). So over the course of about 5 days added RO water from my kitchen based, 4-stage RO dispenser.
Not wanting to invest too much at first, all I've added are 6 snails: 4 hermits, Nassarius and a turbo. Also with the tank, were two internal filters, (Looks sorta like Fluval II's... heater of course, and a std florescent fixture with a GE Fresh & Salt bulb.
I have a box of power-heads so will be swapping the filters out and counting, hopefully, on the sand and existing structure to maintain the bio-load.
