i need help!

[point08]

hi, i currently have a 3ft freshwater, and would like to move on to marine tanks. can anyone tell me what is needed to set up a 2ft marine tank?

thanks!: )

[BFG]

Protein skimmer, chiller, lighting, tank with overflow and sump setup, marine salt, ro/di filter, pumps, hydrometer, test kits for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate, calcium and alkalinity, reactor for carbon and phosphate media, auto top off, kalkwasser reactor, calcium reactor, co2 tank with solenoid, ph monitor and controller, various timers, wavemakers, more money and time for your live stock.


Hope this helps!

[rainbowdarter]

1) What type of marine setup?
Fish Only With Live Rock (FOWLR) ? or Coral ?
You may also visit Singapore Reef Club for more information .
http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?

[zoothefreak]

I kept a 2ft marine tank before with success... mine was a very simple basic setup which required frequent top ups and weekly water change...

Used plenty of liverock, fine sand substrate, simple waterfall hang on filter filled with broken liverock bits, filter floss media & 1/4 bag of chemipure active carbon, a simple clip on aquarium fan & PL Lights Blue & White spectrum (cant remember the wattage at the moment)

Only had very minimal easy soft corals: mushrooms, colony polyps & 1 colt coral... fishes included 2 false clowns, 1 banggai cardinal, 1 firefish and 1 royal dottyback...

Temp 27 C
PH 8.2
sg 1.025

Kept the tank and its inhabitants healthy after the inital cycling and algae attacks subsided good purple algae started growing and I added the corals first, cycled for 2 weeks and then added the fish one species at a time with the shy species added first...

Tank was setup in 2005... ran for 2 good years... disaster in 2007 when I was away for 1 week and left specific instructions to my younger brother on feeding and water top up...

I came back to a marine tank of death everything inside dead and slimy... and I realized there was an addition... An idoit elder cousin of mine with no knowledge on aquaria what so ever added amongst all things... an anemone in my nano tank!!!

Well thats the story and I hope this helps... nano tanks are unfogiving to spikes and then even in larger reef tanks anemones are tough to keep... once they start melting everything else goes quick...