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Topic: new book, new tank?
Posted By: pgravis
Subject: new book, new tank?
Date Posted: February 16 2013 at 11:07pm
So, I picked up Joyce Wilkerson's book on Clownfish at the library last week. It is a great book. I have generally shy-ed away from books on fish stuff because a lot of it seems out of date compared to finding stuff on the daily (hourly) updated forums out there. But, this book is awesome. It has a ton of great info in it.   Some of it is out of date, but as a whole, the book rocks!!
Anyway, since moving into my house about a year ago, I have been in the planning, researching, dreaming (read: too poor to buy the tank I want) phase of my next reef tank and unfortunately have to get my fix by pictures.   But after reading this book, I am thinking of starting a non drilled/non reef (okay maybe some softies) tank that houses a pair of clowns.   I am thinking 20 gal long (have one that used to be a sump in the basement) with a hob filter (charcoal and GFO) and a couple of koralia powerheads. Nothing fancy, probably just cfl bulbs to start with, some rock, sand and a cuc.   
anyone have a basic tank like this? any thoughts or tips on how to proceed? My only other saltwater tanks have been reefs with more elaborate filtration, but this seems easy and cheap.   
Thanks for any info you can pass along.
PJ

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Posted By: sabeypets
Date Posted: February 16 2013 at 11:37pm
Excellent book!
I have several tanks set up like that. Hob filter with charcoal, couple inches of sand, some live rock, heater, and a pair of breeding clowns. Some of these systems have been running for several years with no problems. 


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Shaun
American Fork
"Would you leave a dead cat in your kitchen till tommorow?" Builderofdreams


Posted By: pgravis
Date Posted: February 17 2013 at 1:40pm
Do you use ro water or just tap water in these systems?

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Posted By: Dan9554880
Date Posted: February 17 2013 at 4:27pm
My tank is like that. for filtration I have two job filters plus 70lbs of live sand and 70lbs of Liverock, 3 cheap powerheads and it stays clean and my corals are growing.

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210 Mixed Reef
20 Nuvo nano reef
Learn your tank, not the hobby


Posted By: sabeypets
Date Posted: February 17 2013 at 7:03pm
Originally posted by pgravis pgravis wrote:

Do you use ro water or just tap water in these systems?
I use RO water in all my systems.  


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Shaun
American Fork
"Would you leave a dead cat in your kitchen till tommorow?" Builderofdreams



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