Need help with salt water set up please

[naesco]

Originally Posted by Daniel475

ok so i got my 125 gallon fish tank all up and running its good to go.. so I got my 30 gallon just sittin here i was thinking of starting up a small salt water aquarium .. but I have no experience with salt water set ups.. so what all is involved? and what exactly do I need??? any information would be great.. so far all I have is tank stand heater and filter , and everyone of those peices were in my fresh water tank..
thanks alot
dan

All very good advice.
You have a 125 fresh and you want to start up a 30 gallon salt.
I think by reading up some, visiting reefers who have tanks you will require a much much larger tank than a 30.
As well as a lot of patience this hobby takes money and you need to decide what you want to do.
Getting into marine with a 30 just cause you have a 30 hanging around would be a mistake IMO.
I see, in the future, your marine tank larger than your fresh so go for it.

Originally Posted by naesco

All very good advice.
You have a 125 fresh and you want to start up a 30 gallon salt.
I think by reading up some, visiting reefers who have tanks you will require a much much larger tank than a 30.
As well as a lot of patience this hobby takes money and you need to decide what you want to do.
Getting into marine with a 30 just cause you have a 30 hanging around would be a mistake IMO.
I see, in the future, your marine tank larger than your fresh so go for it.

what I would do is read as I said ask questions and try and visit some reefers.
I would use the 30g as a sump and get a 90g or larger the bigger the better is my motto.

I started with a 55 and 20 sump and found a 90. I have not Switched that over yet my wife keeps finding larger tanks and I think she wants me to get them instead of the 90g which is ok if the tank doesn't cost to much as I just got layed off. My 55g is doing great.

I started my tank by setting it up and adding dry sand and a bag of live sand. after 1 week I added about 20lbs of LR and the next week I added anouther 40 lbs of LR. the next week I added anouther 20lbs of LR and waited of a couple of weeks then added 2 clownfish. waited 1 week and added some corals whick I got off of a person on Canreef. and on things went most of my corals I have gotten from canreefers and I think they are doing better that the ones I got from LFS's. and they were cheeper.

Bill