mike.costa.mc
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Hey everyone,
Quick introduction; I'm Mike. Been obsessed with tanks and fish forever but haven't been able to have a sw tank until now. Been watching YouTube videos, reading articles and bugging the hell out of the LFS owners and employees for info the past few weeks, sorry guys. Plans for fish is sorta planned but might change. I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Hawaii so I'd like as many Hawaiian native fish as possible.
Fish plan/list/options: Yellow Tang, Spotted Mandarin Goby, 2 x regular old clownfishies, and a Threadfin Butterflyfish or Angelfish.
I have like zero patience so this hobby is going to be challenging. On to the tank (and lessons I've learned)!
On the first day, I picked up a 40b (after returning the 38gal tall I returned cause it didn't fit the stand)
40lbs of live sand
Little under 20lbs of live rock
Used protein skimmer
Used Sump
Used pump
Aquatop 300w heater
Then some Seachem Stability and 15 bio balls from an established tank the next day.
Did some minor phantom feeding and then added 2 something something banded snails and 2 emerald crabs 5 days later.
Lessons learned:
I picked the wrong tank the first time and 40b is much better.
Patience is rewarded.
Lights are very expensive. (Currently using the one that came with the tank)
Should've bought way more live rock and also should have really thought about placement before I threw them on there!
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Quick introduction; I'm Mike. Been obsessed with tanks and fish forever but haven't been able to have a sw tank until now. Been watching YouTube videos, reading articles and bugging the hell out of the LFS owners and employees for info the past few weeks, sorry guys. Plans for fish is sorta planned but might change. I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Hawaii so I'd like as many Hawaiian native fish as possible.
Fish plan/list/options: Yellow Tang, Spotted Mandarin Goby, 2 x regular old clownfishies, and a Threadfin Butterflyfish or Angelfish.
I have like zero patience so this hobby is going to be challenging. On to the tank (and lessons I've learned)!
On the first day, I picked up a 40b (after returning the 38gal tall I returned cause it didn't fit the stand)
40lbs of live sand
Little under 20lbs of live rock
Used protein skimmer
Used Sump
Used pump
Aquatop 300w heater
Then some Seachem Stability and 15 bio balls from an established tank the next day.
Did some minor phantom feeding and then added 2 something something banded snails and 2 emerald crabs 5 days later.
Lessons learned:
I picked the wrong tank the first time and 40b is much better.
Patience is rewarded.
Lights are very expensive. (Currently using the one that came with the tank)
Should've bought way more live rock and also should have really thought about placement before I threw them on there!
Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk