Starting a SW tank, some good advice

[Ray Pollett]

Originally posted by always learning
actually I ment for feeding of fish, crabs... but thanks anyway and do you use freeze dried or sometimes frozen for fish? if not what do you use?

thanx,
always learning.

I feed mostly flake foods. Some small pellets. Once in a while some freeze dried bloodworms or krill. I never feed the frozen foods sold for the aquarium hobby, a waste of money. About once a week I feed my anemones, some corals(like bubble corals), starfish and my crabs frozen seafood from the grocery store (Squid, scallops, fish, shrimp). The fish always grab some when I fed the seafood, so I put extra in for them to eat. I usually have on hand about 11 or 12 different flake foods.

Ray

 

[always learning]

Thanks for all your help Ray.

 

[Turbo]

First Time Marineer

 

[Gujustud]

Great post. Some awesome information!

 

[raoul]

silica sand

Originally posted by Corax
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"Most everyone on this board uses it (Southdown), as does Aqualink, Reef Central.. Southdown is the same stuff you get at the LFS for $40/bag, only with a differnt label and for $4/bag. Southdown is the holy grail of sand for us marine nerds, and unless yer from the North-East, you'll probably be using silica sand like the rest of us, myself included.. Nothing wrong with silica, it just has no buffering advantages like Southdown which is an aragonite (calcium) based sand."



I just picked up some silica sand, but I'm concerned because the fine print says that the sillica dust can cause silicosis and cancer. Is this the same silica sand that you're talking about? I've called every landscape supply house, home improvement store, nursery, and cement supplier in town, and nobody has white play sand, or aragonite. The silica sand is for sandblasting. Is it going to be safe for the fish?

Thanks for your help...

 

[JasonA]

new pics of the 80 coming tonight !!

 

[JasonA]

Almost ready to post pics of the 80.... and we're almost at the 5000 view count

 

[canzures]

I just read this post and it's very informative. kudos. I consider my self a FW veteran and currently have a 55g african cichlid tank that I want to convert to a SW tank in the near future. My question is what does the initials "RO" mean when describing water?

Also JasonA do you have any fish in your tank yet and if so pics if any and what type.

 

[gbolton]

"RO" Stands for Reverse Osmosis. This is a highly purified water and can be bought at most LFS that deal in SaltWater as well as many stores that sell drinking water.

 

[Mike87SS]

great thread

This is a great thread, and has provided me with a lot of info. This newb appreciates it