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starting new salt water tank
« Thread Started on Aug 28, 2008, 6:46am »

I will be starting a new 100g salt water tank and would like some opinions on having rock or sand, also is it hard to do the live coral? Any help would be appreciated, its been about 7 yrs since I have had a salt water tank.

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Re: starting new salt water tank
« Reply #1 on Aug 28, 2008, 7:31am »

I recently (8 months ago) started a SW tank and have had great luck. Go with live sand, nothing too fine or the bacteria won't work right. Soft corals are the easiest. you'll want a good light. I recommend ATLEAST 260 watt Power compact. and then some sort of sump/ trickle filter. Best of advice is never buy the cheapest products available, you''ll just end up replacing them. You want probably ateleast 50-75lbs. I would start with one cheap fish, test your water every week, local fish stores will do this free. After 3-4 months add a cheap soft coral like a star polyp.

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« Reply #2 on Aug 28, 2008, 7:44am »

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Re: starting new salt water tank
« Reply #3 on Sept 8, 2008, 8:37pm »

I am a complete idiot about fish, so I can't be of much help. All I can tell you for sure is to be sure and quarantine any coral you buy before you put it into your tank. A friend of mine didn't do it several years ago, and her entire tank got infested with anemones and snales! They can eat up all the good stuff in your water and put out so much waste it can be bad for the ecosystem!!!

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Re: starting new salt water tank
« Reply #4 on Sept 8, 2008, 8:37pm »

And we wanna see pics once you get it up and running!!!

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Re: starting new salt water tank
« Reply #5 on Sept 9, 2008, 3:58am »

I will be watching this thread as I have always wanted to do salt water--I might want marine hermies - I have done fresh water before but many moons ago!

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Re: starting new salt water tank
« Reply #6 on Sept 9, 2008, 7:09am »

its going to be at least a month now till I can start getting it together. Its taking longer than the contractors thought to finish our down stairs

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