River Reef Filtration

[amma245]

Morning everyone, I am after some advice from you knowledgeable people out there. I have been lucky enough to purchase a River reef 94l tank for £50 off ebay and I am looking to set it up as Marine. The tank seems to have everything it needs except for the filtration side. At this stage there is no water in it, I am just doing the planning.

My question is which compartment should I put these in for the best marine filtration or does it really not matter? There are 4 compartments looking at it from the front;
Compartment 1 - Heater
Compartment 2 - I have biomax, coarse and fine sponges
Compartment 3 - Sponges (not sure which) and carbon
Compartment 4 - power heads.

Also any views on using pre prepared salt water. Reading through the forums there are mixed views.

Thanks!

 

[simonas]

Morning everyone, I am after some advice from you knowledgeable people out there. I have been lucky enough to purchase a River reef 94l tank for £50 off ebay and I am looking to set it up as Marine. The tank seems to have everything it needs except for the filtration side. At this stage there is no water in it, I am just doing the planning.

My question is which compartment should I put these in for the best marine filtration or does it really not matter? There are 4 compartments looking at it from the front;
Compartment 1 - Heater
Compartment 2 - I have biomax, coarse and fine sponges
Compartment 3 - Sponges (not sure which) and carbon
Compartment 4 - power heads.

Also any views on using pre prepared salt water. Reading through the forums there are mixed views.

Thanks!

Ive moved this thread to marine from Cichlids welcome to the forum

I have a river reef 94 as my first marine tank

First of all I would ditch ideas of filtration by way of sponges and media etc.

I either use pre mixed or mix my own either way it does fine although you may get a better quality reef salt mix from doing your own and save some oennies long term.

Get your water in and then buy about 10kg of live rock. Search the ads on tank break downs and you'll get it about £5 a kg instead of £11 a kg that shops charge. Look for decent rock. That will be your filtration along with the flow from the two standard pumps and look into a small powerhead to aid with flow, I have a koralia 1 as well

My first chamber has the heater second has chaeto and a submersible light to help the chaeto grow which is great for nitrates, the third chamber for now is empty but will soon have carbon and rowaphos in and the last chamber houses the two powerheads

and then its a case of buying a refractometer, test kits and waiting for your tank to go through the cycle then add clean up crew, corals and fish very slowly of course.

Take a look at the journals section in marine, Ive got two river reef 944 journals which may help with photos and descriptions of how I set mine up along with lots of other journals

Lastly ask as many questions as you need to get as much help and info and you should be able to set a great little reef up

Good luck