Thinking about setting up a saltwater aquarium, i've had one in the past but it was pretty much a disaster as far as fish were concerned... the pet shop i went to for most of my equipment fish and advice selling me the wrong equipment, and giving the wrong advice was mostly to blame... Did have coral and stuff that did ok tho.
Anyway onto the new setup... The pet shop that got me interested in a saltwater tank had a "display-only" small tank containing live rock, an anemone, and a Clown fish that would just sit in the anemone. This is basically all i wanted out of my saltwater tank. Unfortunately they sold me a 3 gallon tank with a bio-wheel filtration system, and then much later told me the light it had wasn't good enough for coral.:grumble:
I would still like to have that tank, but there's some stuff i need help/advice to make my dream tank happen. I've been doing research on everything from tank sizes to filtration and it seems not alot of people agree on anything. So i'd like to hear your opinions on the following:
The fish i want is the Ocellaris Clownfish... the guides say 20-30 gallon tank size
Filtration... Sump, undergravel, no filter just powerheads... one big spot no one agrees on.
I do have a tank i may get free that is somewhere in the size range and it would come with a penguin 160 external bio-wheel type deal and a small air pump... would any of that be useful?
i'm excessively cheap, so some components might come off of eBay. Any thoughts of what's worthwile? i saw cheap protein skimmers, and a few no reserve auctions for a powerhead/ skimmer combo.
I've read the stickies here and on a few other boards... pretty much everything i read contradicts something else... so any help you have shoot it my way
Anyway onto the new setup... The pet shop that got me interested in a saltwater tank had a "display-only" small tank containing live rock, an anemone, and a Clown fish that would just sit in the anemone. This is basically all i wanted out of my saltwater tank. Unfortunately they sold me a 3 gallon tank with a bio-wheel filtration system, and then much later told me the light it had wasn't good enough for coral.:grumble:
I would still like to have that tank, but there's some stuff i need help/advice to make my dream tank happen. I've been doing research on everything from tank sizes to filtration and it seems not alot of people agree on anything. So i'd like to hear your opinions on the following:
The fish i want is the Ocellaris Clownfish... the guides say 20-30 gallon tank size
Filtration... Sump, undergravel, no filter just powerheads... one big spot no one agrees on.
I do have a tank i may get free that is somewhere in the size range and it would come with a penguin 160 external bio-wheel type deal and a small air pump... would any of that be useful?
i'm excessively cheap, so some components might come off of eBay. Any thoughts of what's worthwile? i saw cheap protein skimmers, and a few no reserve auctions for a powerhead/ skimmer combo.
I've read the stickies here and on a few other boards... pretty much everything i read contradicts something else... so any help you have shoot it my way