hello all!
i am returning to the reef hobby after a 7 or 8 year hiatus. i had been doing salt/reef tanks since early 90's. my last tank was an in wall 180 with a 90 gallon sump/ refugium.
kids went off to college and mom and dad started doing a little more traveling for pleasure and for my other hobbies. firearms, collecting breweriana advertising and dump digging for bottles, beer cans and anything else that caught my eye. spent a couple weeks hiking through old mining towns, and abandoned army depots throughout alaska. needless to say i could never maintain a large reef aquarium doing all that.
so a few weeks ago came across an Oceanic biocube 29 for next to nothing. so i decided i would do it again on a much smaller scale. been shopping for all needed supplies and modification for the last week.been lurking here reading up on what is appropriate for my cube.
this is what i have ordered so far:
*media basket with chemi pure elite, purigen bags
*upgraded return pump cobalt mj900
*skimmer-aquatic life 115
*lighting mod-rapid LED retrofit with a bluefish unit
*powerheads-2 hydor 425's
*ATO-tunze osmolater
*Jager 125w heater
*a mess o' loc-line components to split my return in two
and for the actual tank 20lbs bahama oolite live sand and 160 gal bucket of reef crystals. and ordering this week a 50 lb box of totoka live rock from champion lighting, ($239 SHIPPED TO DOOR). the excess i will sell to my LPS.
i am excited to get back into the bottomless money pit of reef keeping!
one question for this post. the three chambers in the back what components will go into which compartment.
thanks,
Angry Gary
i am returning to the reef hobby after a 7 or 8 year hiatus. i had been doing salt/reef tanks since early 90's. my last tank was an in wall 180 with a 90 gallon sump/ refugium.
kids went off to college and mom and dad started doing a little more traveling for pleasure and for my other hobbies. firearms, collecting breweriana advertising and dump digging for bottles, beer cans and anything else that caught my eye. spent a couple weeks hiking through old mining towns, and abandoned army depots throughout alaska. needless to say i could never maintain a large reef aquarium doing all that.
so a few weeks ago came across an Oceanic biocube 29 for next to nothing. so i decided i would do it again on a much smaller scale. been shopping for all needed supplies and modification for the last week.been lurking here reading up on what is appropriate for my cube.
this is what i have ordered so far:
*media basket with chemi pure elite, purigen bags
*upgraded return pump cobalt mj900
*skimmer-aquatic life 115
*lighting mod-rapid LED retrofit with a bluefish unit
*powerheads-2 hydor 425's
*ATO-tunze osmolater
*Jager 125w heater
*a mess o' loc-line components to split my return in two
and for the actual tank 20lbs bahama oolite live sand and 160 gal bucket of reef crystals. and ordering this week a 50 lb box of totoka live rock from champion lighting, ($239 SHIPPED TO DOOR). the excess i will sell to my LPS.
i am excited to get back into the bottomless money pit of reef keeping!
one question for this post. the three chambers in the back what components will go into which compartment.
thanks,
Angry Gary