HappyGeorge
Fish Herder
Ok so here goes, have read through the great resource material on here and most questions are covered and my brain is full of new watery things to digest. At present I have a 100G malawi tank that I have been running for a year and a pretty good understanding of water husbandry for FW. I had always wanted a marine tank but thought FW was a much more sensible and less expensive starting point.
My main tank has been very succesful with a number of breeding pairs, but I had an aggression problem between the dominant male and a female (that turned out to be a male).
I wanted to rescue him from his life of hassle and transfer a few of the juves away from the main tank, so without a great deal of time in hand i went to my LFS and bought a 20G Boyu tank, neat little unit with the compartment in the back for all the gumph.
I have now sold my distressed (now fully recovered) male and all the juves on, and want to look at turning this into a marine tank.
So the question is has anyone got any advice with regards to equipment specifically for this tank, or how to male best use of the available void in the back.
My plan is to have live rock, to continue running the built in pump and some mechanical filtration, and obviously I already have the thermometer and heater. Turnover is about 12x from the pump in the tank, was planning to add one or two powerheads, maybe 2 newave 1000's?
Obviously I need a protein skimmer so any advice to ones that are a good fit for this tank would be gratefully received.
I think I'm then ready to look at giving it a go so with the addition of a refractometer i think im good to go.
Only other thought was whether with just one 20g tank to maintain an RO unit is worth considering or just buy it?
Thanks in advance for any help.
My main tank has been very succesful with a number of breeding pairs, but I had an aggression problem between the dominant male and a female (that turned out to be a male).
I wanted to rescue him from his life of hassle and transfer a few of the juves away from the main tank, so without a great deal of time in hand i went to my LFS and bought a 20G Boyu tank, neat little unit with the compartment in the back for all the gumph.
I have now sold my distressed (now fully recovered) male and all the juves on, and want to look at turning this into a marine tank.
So the question is has anyone got any advice with regards to equipment specifically for this tank, or how to male best use of the available void in the back.
My plan is to have live rock, to continue running the built in pump and some mechanical filtration, and obviously I already have the thermometer and heater. Turnover is about 12x from the pump in the tank, was planning to add one or two powerheads, maybe 2 newave 1000's?
Obviously I need a protein skimmer so any advice to ones that are a good fit for this tank would be gratefully received.
I think I'm then ready to look at giving it a go so with the addition of a refractometer i think im good to go.
Only other thought was whether with just one 20g tank to maintain an RO unit is worth considering or just buy it?
Thanks in advance for any help.