I have come for your brains! Not as a zombie but as a new forum member looking to adventure into the saltwater aquarium world! This has been in the back of my head for awhile now and for the past month or so I have done a lot of reading online about what to do. I think I have come to a conclusion of what path I would like to take. But before I start hitting the (buy) button and mixing RO/DI and saltmix I decided to sign up to this community forum for your thoughts. So here it is...
I am going to start basic with just the cycling of Live Rock...and that is it. No fish are even in the thought process at the moment. The bulk of my purchase will most likely be dry rock and probably going to my LFS and getting some live rock from them to start the cycling process of the tank. I am in no rush but I believe starting out like this and just working on turning the dry rock into live rock will give me a nice grace period to learn how to correctly take readings for the anemia, nitrite, nitrate and ph levels and also measure thesalinity correctly. I know this will be a slow process turning the dry rock into live rock but I am in no rush and will be able to continue researching while this process is taking place.
So I think this will be my first few steps..
I have a 20 gallon long tank and stand I purchased for it.
I will probably purchase play sand or pool filter sand.
Dry rock with some live rock.
2-3 Powerheads
Salt Mix & RO/DI water.
Heater
So what do you think? With the thought of not keeping any fish I am not in fear of killing anything so I feel pretty safe with this set up to test things out and play around with it. Also someday down the line I want a 50-75 gallon tank to keep fish in and having this set up early on and established would be a big benefit to that tank.
Thanks!
I am going to start basic with just the cycling of Live Rock...and that is it. No fish are even in the thought process at the moment. The bulk of my purchase will most likely be dry rock and probably going to my LFS and getting some live rock from them to start the cycling process of the tank. I am in no rush but I believe starting out like this and just working on turning the dry rock into live rock will give me a nice grace period to learn how to correctly take readings for the anemia, nitrite, nitrate and ph levels and also measure thesalinity correctly. I know this will be a slow process turning the dry rock into live rock but I am in no rush and will be able to continue researching while this process is taking place.
So I think this will be my first few steps..
I have a 20 gallon long tank and stand I purchased for it.
I will probably purchase play sand or pool filter sand.
Dry rock with some live rock.
2-3 Powerheads
Salt Mix & RO/DI water.
Heater
So what do you think? With the thought of not keeping any fish I am not in fear of killing anything so I feel pretty safe with this set up to test things out and play around with it. Also someday down the line I want a 50-75 gallon tank to keep fish in and having this set up early on and established would be a big benefit to that tank.
Thanks!