New Here & to Saltwater

I was reading a post somewhere and somebody use car window tint to cover the back. 2.5% tint. It is a lot easier to do that then to paint the tank. I wish I had tinted mine tank instead of painting it. But welcome to the hobby! It gets addictive and your wallet will be much thinner. :sparta-lol:
 
Getting a little closer.
Picked up a fish this weekend just to make sure everything is okay before I add too much.
Also got a background but haven't attached it yet.
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Welcome to CR!

You remind me of my starting days.

I am not sure what your future plans are for the tank, but if corals is one of those. As soon as you can I would ditch the hang-on back filter with the bio-wheels, save yourself a headache. If you do not maintain that filter on a constant basis that filter will become a nitrate factory. I say this from experience of running canister filters in the past. For the mean time remove the bio-wheels so it doesn't become your primary bio-logical breeding ground and gives the rock time to seed and build.

If you're under a budget I would turn that hang on back filter into a refugium and save heaven for pods and other critters. There are real easy to make simple as removing all filter media from the filter. Adding a bit of rubble and crumbs of rock and a ball of chaeto morpha followed by an in expensive desktop clip on light and you are done.
 
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Figured I'd post a photo here since I haven't ever updated this. Knocked some of my rocks over re other day while cleaning, but otherwise this is how it's looking so far. Waiting to see what happens with the holidays before getting much of anything else.


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Had that exact tank and setup you have. It rad great for the year it was up but I had nitrate problems till I dropped the HOB filter and put a HOB overflow to a remote sump and I used the HOB skimmer in the sump with some micro algae. I ran some softies and LPS with a birdsnest and one GARF Purple Banzai
 
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Had that exact tank and setup you have. It rad great for the year it was up but I had nitrate problems till I dropped the HOB filter and put a HOB overflow to a remote sump and I used the HOB skimmer in the sump with some micro algae. I ran some softies and LPS with a birdsnest and one GARF Purple Banzai
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Yeah, i've been waiting till somebody has some chaeto available to put in the HOB.
 
I like it. I'm also impressed that you are taking g your time. Most folks would have that thing overstocked by now. That being said, I think you are almost there. If you remove the filter cartridge from that filter and fill it with rubble rock you will have increased biological filtration. Your corallife skimmer seems like its pulling some skimmate which is good, you should look into the mods people do for those things, supposed to really kick up production of foam. A hang on back refugium would probably be in order down the road if the salt bug stays in your blood through tax season. But hopefully by then you will consider drilling that ho out and making a proper reef system. Then your gonna want lights! Welcome to salt life, its like heroin but it won't kill you. That's your wife's job!
 
Nice start, patience in this hobby will be rewarded, nothing good in this hobby happens fast.

Welcome to CR.
 
Thanks everybody. The small budget i've set aside is helping keep things slow. I'm okay with spending money for the right things, though. Hindsight is always 20/20 and i'll have to research what kind of sump will fit in the stand I have.
I am not running the carbon filter cartridges, and have some broken up rock in there, but still have the bio-wheels. I should remove those, just haven't done it yet.

I agree, everybody here has been super helpful and the info provided is great. Thanks for everybody's help!
 
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