Finally taking the dive into salt. According to my other half I've been talking about building a saltwater system since we first met over a decade ago. She finally go fed up with me just talking about it and started working on getting me a tank for xmas last year, but the more she found out, the more she realized that I needed to be involved to make sure it really was my tank with what I wanted in it. So after spilling the beans and telling me that I wasn't getting one because of this, I took everything she had gathered and started to dive in seriously myself, because if she had decided that it was put up or shut up time, who am I to argue with a wise woman? I spend most evenings now reading about saltwater and fish and coral husbandry, so much so that she's taken to teasing me that she's caught me looking at "coral ****" when she catches me checking out corals or fish online.
Fast forward a bit after a bunch of research and reading here and various other forums, watching videos, etc, I hit up the local PetCo during their $1/Gallon sale and bought myself some 20g tanks to setup as my QT/Hospital system, which, currently look like this mess:
Currently each of those tanks consists of:
In addition to the Red Sea Reefer 425XL (black), my parts list is currently as follows:
Fast forward a bit after a bunch of research and reading here and various other forums, watching videos, etc, I hit up the local PetCo during their $1/Gallon sale and bought myself some 20g tanks to setup as my QT/Hospital system, which, currently look like this mess:
Currently each of those tanks consists of:
- a Hydra Aquatics Sponge Filter
- a Eheim Liberty HOB Filter
- Half of a MarinePure High Performance Biofilter Media Plate
- a Seachem Laboratories Ammonia Alert
- a Tunze Osmolator Nano
- a Cobalt Aquatics 100w Heater
- a Hydor Koralia Nano Powerhead
- some PVC, because every QT tank needs PVC for things to hide in (or so they tell me)
- some Generic digital thermometers to sanity check what's in the heater
- a Aqueon Glass Lid
- 5g HDPE bucket as my ATO reserve
- a Kessil A80 for the top tank with the corals
- a Kessil H80 for the bottom tank for some display Algae I'm planning to eventually add to the main system, plus this will probably become my Fuge lighting
- Kessil Spectral Controller X (which will also run my main tank's lighting...)
- an Aqueon QuietFlow Air Pump to keep the sponge filters going
- a Seneye Reef to keep tabs on temp, PH, Ammonia etc.
- 2 44gal Brute Containers to hold my RO/DI and spare saltwater
- AquaFX Barracuda RO/DI system
- Red Sea Blue Bucket Salt
- Red Sea and Hanna Test equipment
- An Eheim Heater for heating the RO/DI or saltwater
- A Cobalt Aquatics MJ1200 to stir and pump the RO/DI and saltwater
- A small pharmacy of fish/invert medications from the various QT and disease treatment threads for "just in case" reasons.
- Various cleaning and scrubbing and wiping up things.
In addition to the Red Sea Reefer 425XL (black), my parts list is currently as follows:
- 2 Kessil A360X + mounting arms
- 2 AI Nero 5 Powerheads
- 2 Cobalt Aquatics Neotherm Heaters
- Hydor Seltz D Return Pump
- Red Sea RSK 300 Skimmer
- Reef-Pi (still under construction)
- ReVolt Aquarium Grounding Plug
- AutoAqua Smart AWC Touch