After all the stinkin questions

Solastsummer

Solastsummer

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here is my tank, its cycling right now so there is nothing in it Here is some of the specifics of it

60 G
30# fiji premium live rock
30# base rock
60# live sand (its straight from the ocean i belive)
2 powerheads putting 300 GPH each
Aquac remora pro skimmer
200 W heater

is there anything more i should add and if you have any suggestions let me know
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I had all the rock and 1/2 the sand in for about 2 weeks now, so I'm hoping not having to wait for longer than a month now
 
does anyone have feedback for me? Also i am on a small small budget, im a college student so yeah, anyways I know i should have a r/o filter, i found some on ebay but how do i know the difference between a good one and one thats crap. to me a r/o filter is just an r/o filter. I really would like to spend less than 75 dollars. And i cant get some from a LFS because im in the middle of nowhere idaho and there is no LFS
 
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You can get ro water from alot of Grocery stores now. If a store near you has ro water I would ask them how often they change their filters. Some even put a maintenance chart on the side of the machine. Heck my local hardware even sells ro water now.
As for your tank, it looks great. I like the aquascaping. And as Ace said now is the hard part, waiting. You can take this time to start figuring out what you want in the tank. And making sure that the inhabitants will co-exist together.
Rich
 
i was told by a bunch of people that if you use live rock/sand that would act as the filter as long as you had adequite circulation
 
Hmmm. Well... errrr.. ok. I have never heard that myself. Yes, it does help with filtration, but I really doubt it is enough to filter much fish waste. I would think of adding at least a hang on back filter like a Rena Smartfilter for starters. Or better yet, some kind of multi-stage canister filter. You need to have filter pads and media to remove phosphates and stuff.

I wouldn't run any tank, not even a freshwater, without a filter of some kind.
 
well i have heard do not use canister filters because they are nitrite factorys. I belive the method of using live rock/sand is called the berlin method. If thats not do-able I can easly put on a emporor 400 or something like that, but i would rather not
 
Well I can't say I am the expert on that, so I will just let others chime in with their opinions. I just don't think it would work.

Look at my tank in my sig if you haven't and see the filtration I have just for a 29G. If I were to stop the sump/refugium I am sure my tank would go south real fast. Along with my sump, fuge, Remora, 2 bags of chemi-pure, 1 bag of purigen, phosban reactor, I also have a hang on back Rena SmartFilter 30 on my tank AND I do 5g a day in water changes (which is definately excessive, I know, I wouldn't suggest others do that unless they are like me and get free saltwater from the ocean). This has taken years of work to get to the point I am at, and in the beginning I simply had a 1/2 canister hang on back filter and learned real fast during my first algae outbreak how much more filtration is really needed.
 
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