ok, the salt question was a joke lol. heres my newest plan (it seems to change daily). 1. purchase a few bags of live sand from my lfs and use it to seed whatever i get for the rest of the sand. 2. purhcase a 60lb box of hawian base rock from http://www.hirocks.com/ . 3. purchase as much fully cured lr from my lfs as i can afford(im running out of money very quickly) should be about 20-30lbs for now. what order should i put it all together? I was thinking install base rock, then lr then sand. as far as the sand goes should i mix it up, or go like %50ls/100%other/50%ls, or some other way. i was thinking of using the south down play sand from home depot, ive read many things on this site saying that it is fine. then once the sand storm has cleared fire up the sump and what not and wait, wait, wait. my thinking is that it may not cycle as fast, but since i am running out of money anyhow, i wont be able to afford any livestock for a while anyhow. i also believe that this may give the base rock time to start growing some bacteria and since i will be required to stock my tank very slowly, as far as i can tell from what ive read i should be ok.(man $2000 goes fast when building a reef system, lol). If you could please give me your comments/comcerns/ideas I would really appreciate it.
P.S. I would also like for some people to basically tell me exactly what to to with what I have here, like i said earlier I am running out of money very quickly and the things that i posted are about all i can afford. I am almost scared of this whole thing and starting to get a bit confused with everyone telling me "you could do this" and so on, I really appreciate it but what I think I need right now is a few people w/experience to just look at what I have and say "do it this way" or if my take on the whole situation is retarded "It won't work, you have to have....". I think I have a decent handel on the equipment side of it, I have all of the common stuff i.e. skimmer, sump, lighting and so on. I just need some serious guidance on building the reef part.
Thank you very much in advance, the people at this site have been invaluable to me.
P.S. I would also like for some people to basically tell me exactly what to to with what I have here, like i said earlier I am running out of money very quickly and the things that i posted are about all i can afford. I am almost scared of this whole thing and starting to get a bit confused with everyone telling me "you could do this" and so on, I really appreciate it but what I think I need right now is a few people w/experience to just look at what I have and say "do it this way" or if my take on the whole situation is retarded "It won't work, you have to have....". I think I have a decent handel on the equipment side of it, I have all of the common stuff i.e. skimmer, sump, lighting and so on. I just need some serious guidance on building the reef part.
Thank you very much in advance, the people at this site have been invaluable to me.
