Godly3vil

Same with the substrate. $50 is so cheap in the scheme of things, especially when it comes to marine. Try to cut to many corners and you will regret it in the long run.

They're just as good as the ones available on trademe, they're not exactly top quality but as long as you get some calibration solution you shouldn't have any issues.

Why have you got tap water in there? Use ro or distilled water.

The problem with using rock/substrate out of a fw tank in a saltwater tank is the chance that it may have traces of copper in it, that's why I said on your other thread to just get new rock.

I would like to know where you think you can find true percs for $50 or less?

Daltons aquatic mix with a 5cm capping layer or sand or fine gravel.

Yes.

130ltr is still a nano lol.

:slfg: it's a date!

Argonite is sweet, just not the stuff that has been in your freshwater tank.

Don't use the liverock if it has been in a freshwater tank, you would have to seriously sterilize it with acid to make it safe to use in a reef from what I have been told.

Seems pretty quick to have fish in there?

It's really not that expensive to set up a pressurized co2 rig, everything apart from the cylinder you can import from fish-street.com and if you didn't want to shell out a few $100 for the cylinder you can just rent one from boc for around $15/month.

I kept so many different types of plants in my discus tank with great success. If you search for my tank build thread you should be able to get some idea of which ones.

The variety of marine fish available here is actually pretty good, it's just the prices that annoy me lol. I'm actually pretty new to marine so can't really recommend many corals but so far I really like my softies and some types of lps. They look so good under aftinic or led lighting and that's what attracted me to reefing in the first place.

Reefsmart.

I ordered some carbon from him yesterday, he posted it today so should be here tomorrow. I would go filter wool-purigen-carbon, no need for the rubble really. The filter wool should be replaced every water change or as needed and the carbon should last for 6 weeks on average.

Purigen and some form of activated carbon, just don't use the cheap crap lol. As to how I would set it up, I would copy Si_Sphinx design of his media rack and make one for the different types of media.

With a marine tank you don't really run a filter as the live rock acts as the biological filter. You can run mechanical filtration like a freshwater tank but this can quickly become a nitrate factory as detritus gets stuck in it. I use purigen and really recommend it, water clarity is amazing and it keeps most my parameters in acceptable levels.

Great start, regarding the salt - if you're going to be collecting your own NSW you won't need this, if you're making ASW I seen there's a cheap 20kg bucket of marinium branded salt on trademe up your ways, I've heard good things about it especially considering the price. The eggcrate is generally used instead of a media rack to keep all your different type of media spaced apart allowing maximum flow through still, you will need either one if you plan on running purigen and some sort of carbon which most people generally use. The api master reef test kit is a waste of money, you should have just got the saltwater test kit, reefsmart had these for a super low price last time I looked, the tests that come in the reef master kit are pretty useless and are not considered accurate enough for a reef tank especially when it looks like you are planning on dosing for sps type corals. Salifert is the brand you want especially for your Calcium, Magnesium, Nitrate and Phosphate tests.

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What I have seem done before for spider wood is gluing it to ceramic tiles and burying these under the substrate, they work great and you don't even know they're there.

I looked into doing this awhile ago, the problem I had was finding somewhere that will certify it once it has the right valve installed. They also have to be painted grey for co2 use.

Aquaraise or dupla seem to have good reviews from local reefers. I use NSW so can't really recommend from personal use sorry.

It will if it performs as well as it should.