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Unlock additional features for 199.99$?

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 10:37 AM PST

Cube just turned 1 yrs old.

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 03:03 PM PST

Starry Blenny stare down from his favorite perch in my leather coral.

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 04:36 PM PST

Finally after 6 months post move. The tank is happy and thriving. Time for more coral!

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 02:45 PM PST

This little shit.

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 06:26 AM PST

Just my anemone taking a stroll around my tank

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 08:32 PM PST

Side ��.

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 05:38 PM PST

Mandarin dragonets be like

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 06:44 PM PST

Sweet little bounce!

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 05:10 PM PST

First fish in tank, Standard oscellaris clown.

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 03:02 PM PST

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT A PINEAPPLE IS AN LPS CORAL

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 03:10 PM PST

Torch Garden!

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 06:50 AM PST

My frog

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 01:06 PM PST

Little torch action

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 07:38 PM PST

Been loving chalices lately

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 07:29 PM PST

wtf is the spikey blob ? is it dangerous? does it want to eat my corals ?

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 07:22 PM PST

Added a gfo reactor today due to extremely high phosphates. This bad boy should work wonders.

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 10:05 PM PST

New coral ��

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 03:04 PM PST

Am I ready for a reef tank?

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 10:02 PM PST

Am I ready for a reef tank?

Hi guys! I apologize in advance for a long post, but thanks in advance for reading!

So, my question is less 'how do I do this' and more 'am I properly prepared for this'. I've been doing a lot of reading on how to set up a marine tank, but I do have a few questions/need a little clarification on some stuff from actual people rather than articles and how-to's.

I've got a tank already (see pictures below, assuming I haven't borked uploading them), and I've got a lot of experience with freshwater tanks so while I'm not a complete newbie at fish-keeping this will be my first saltwater tank. The tank is ~75 gallons, cylinder shaped, and sits atop a base where the sump is kept. It's big, but it's not so deep that I cant get a vacuum down there now and then to clean the bottom, or sponge the inside glass.

So my questions are these:

The sump: I've not actually used a sump before, I always had the waterfall filters. Reading up on them, bioballs go in the left compartment, ceramic thingies in the middle under the platform with the.. uh.. filtery fabric stuff (I cant for the life of me remember the word) which is right under where the drain tube with the particulates sock flows, and then the right compartment has the pump that sends water back up. That's what the internet tells me, but is that right for a salt water tank?

The material: The tank is acrylic, that's okay, right? I feel like it is, but better to ask if there's some reason acrylic murders saltwater fish or gets all screwed up from saltwater than to be sorry about it later. My past tanks have all been glass.

Am I missing anything? I know I need a heater for in the sump, I'll pick that up separately in a bit. I've got the sump and pump, the tank came with an air pump and line for some aeration, there's two strips of LED lights within the cap that do white/purple/blue lighting (with changeable settings, I think). I'm unsure if I need any sort of wave maker; I know moving water's part of the lifeblood of the whole set up, I'm just unsure of whether this sort of tank's own water movement might take care of that itself or if someone's discovered that it's definitely necessary. If so, I could use a good recommendation there, I want to make sure I go good quality, and appropriate for my tank type/size so I don't go blasting my poor critters around, since the tank is round.

Okay last question(s) here. My end goal is Amazing Reef Tank, but obviously I'm not STARTING with that. I know that patience is the key, I've got to go slow, I've got all the time in the world and I'm not at all in a rush. Even just filling this thing with water is going to happen at a sloth's pace while I read and pick things up. So, starting out with some live rock and a couple-few starter fish, is that an Amazing Reef Tank's beginning? Like, I can add to that over time, move in glorious little wiggle bushes and young anemones and all that sort of what-not over time, and essentially grow the tank into it's super colorful and squiggly final form? The answer seems like it'd be yes, but best to ask those with experience.

I was thinking about leaving the bottom bare, but would it be best to do a thin layer of sea sand? I'd rather be able to easily suck up debris and not worry about that, if possible, but you guys would know best, probably.

Did I forget anything vital to the whole process? If going full on glorious reef tank is a think that requires tons and tons of equipment, then I may never really be able to do it, space can be tight, but I'd like to. I still want to be a mermaid when I grow up, but this is probably as close as I'll get, hehe.

Thanks in advance for the advice and the help and whatever else!

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Rock wall (I named him spidercrab because at night he scales the walls like a spider and looks like one too)

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 07:15 PM PST

Yum

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 01:25 PM PST

Sleeper favia, grow already!

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 06:46 PM PST

Is there any better feeling in reefing?

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 10:27 AM PST

Id help. Is this a gorgonian?

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 01:03 PM PST

Brown Bannerfish. Got it in very poor health, here he is 3 months later.

Posted: 18 Jan 2021 09:01 AM PST

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