Recent content by teqvet

We don't really get anything like that on our beaches. Few shells of course and sand dollars after hurricanes dredge them up but other than that and misc. seaweed.. not much else washes up on our area. Just sugar white beach sand miles and miles.

Ok. The overflow thing seems like it might be the best thing then. Wife would kill me if I wanted to look for a new tank even though I got our 75g at a steal of $50. So Skimmer > pump > sump > overflow are the immediate things I need to purchase along with rock and sand. Back to lights...

I'd read about that but people seem to discourage those. Why is that?

Yuck, I'll need to have the tank drilled for the sump? Not sure I'm up to that task on my own. Would it be likely IO could have one of he local shops do that for a price? What would be fair price for that type of labor? I guess I could just sale my current holdings and look for a predrilled...

It looks like I'm looking at a minimum of 1k$ in additions to what I'm currently set with. 430$ lights + $169 skimmer + ?? for sand and rock? Or you mentioned something about two different types of rock?

Little bit about the aquatic history... I started freshwater keeping about 2 years ago. We have a 75gallon tank with some CA/SA mixtures. Over the summer we left and made the mistake of letting the wrong person care for our pets. In short, I lost a great deal of moneys worth of plants and fish...