JChitmon
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Starting a thread to document the progress and get opinions.
I am based in Scotland so I do have access to most things however some items are very expensive. So I will be doing a few things abnormally from what I have done in the past when I was in the States.
The tank was bought used but looks to be about 10 gallons. As this is an experiment to try and spend money on only needed equipment I used a large pot to fill it. Hence I do not know exactly how much water I added.
It came with a return pump and heater. And it had a weak light that I have sense replaced.
The previous owner had cichlids and I kept the sand from his tank.
I then put caribesea live substrate Fiji pink on top of that.
The only filtration currently in the tank is from coarse filter material.
I then added the Nicrew 100 watt LED light.
i previously had a plant in this space so the light above that will be for the mangroves.
I ordered 2 red mangroves from eBay. The seller stated that they were currently in freshwater. So I now need to slowly add salt to acclimate them when they arrive. Advice on time frame would be greatly appreciated. My current thoughts are to raise the salt levels every 2 weeks at an extremely slow rate so it would take 2 months to reach normal reef levels.
I also will add a bag of carbon at that time.
I used just tap water for the initial fill as well as bio starter and water conditioner.
The pictures are showing a very blue tank, however in real life it’s much more white. I will work on getting this fixed for future posts.
I am based in Scotland so I do have access to most things however some items are very expensive. So I will be doing a few things abnormally from what I have done in the past when I was in the States.
The tank was bought used but looks to be about 10 gallons. As this is an experiment to try and spend money on only needed equipment I used a large pot to fill it. Hence I do not know exactly how much water I added.
It came with a return pump and heater. And it had a weak light that I have sense replaced.
The previous owner had cichlids and I kept the sand from his tank.
I then put caribesea live substrate Fiji pink on top of that.
The only filtration currently in the tank is from coarse filter material.
I then added the Nicrew 100 watt LED light.
i previously had a plant in this space so the light above that will be for the mangroves.
I ordered 2 red mangroves from eBay. The seller stated that they were currently in freshwater. So I now need to slowly add salt to acclimate them when they arrive. Advice on time frame would be greatly appreciated. My current thoughts are to raise the salt levels every 2 weeks at an extremely slow rate so it would take 2 months to reach normal reef levels.
I also will add a bag of carbon at that time.
I used just tap water for the initial fill as well as bio starter and water conditioner.
The pictures are showing a very blue tank, however in real life it’s much more white. I will work on getting this fixed for future posts.
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