Nano first...garganto later?

i have a 10gal. which used to house a scorpion, but i froze him and mounted him. i also have a 75gal with a ball python in it...but she's boring and i want to try my hand at keeping fish, b/c i like aquariums so much. I'll sell her, i won't freeze her. :-)

I would get Live Rock for sure, b/c i know corals are expensive. I guess i will start with my 75. I will purchase everything at the end of summer when i have sufficient funds for such a project! i have been doing a considerable amount of reading and researching, and im definately excited. Because of that im getting impatient. but i'll wait.

is there anything i can get now that's easy and relatively inexpensive??
 
It might be fun to start your refugium now. You could be entertained watching all the little creatures breed and occupy it and then when you start your big tank, you'll already have a small refugium full of pods and all sorts of great stuff!
 
you know, i would rather buy one then build one. Can anyone recommend a reputable supplier? If i don't have a main tank yet, how will this little refugium get it's water source and filtration?
 
I can't offer a supplier but I was just thinking that if you are going to get a 75 gallon main tank, you might want a bit bigger of a refugium. Other's would have better advice on that than me. I'm still lusting after one for my tank.
 
bigger like a 25 gallon refugium? or a 30?

But still, i don't understand how a refugium gets water unless it is already attached to a larger, establish aquarium with its own sump and filtration system.
 
I'm no expert but I'm thinking that you could just run it "as if" it is the main tank to start with...the water starts in the tank and is cycled through whatever filter you chose...closed loop. There are a bunch of threads on refugiums in the DIY section...you'd adapt what you needed. Instead of cycling the water out to another tank, you'd just filter it just like a normal tank. Then when you add your big tank, you could add the piping to bring it up and back from the big tank. I could be talking out of my rear here but it seems like a good idea in my head.
 
well you know more about it than i do, so i will look into pricing and consider the idea of buying a SW 30 gal refugium, or building my own...Which do you think would be cheaper?
 
Waay cheaper to build your own but the issue for me is mathematics. I just can't be trusted with those **** things. Refugiums can be super simple...just a tank with sand and algae. Or you can make them really complex with different compartments, etc. You just have to make sure if you do the simple variety, you find a way to protect your pump from the sand. That's why some people add a plexiglass compartment in there...so sand doesn't gunk up their pump.
 
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