Hello everybody!
I’m relatively new to the hobby, and new to reef2reef!
I took over a friends saltwater tank a couple of years ago, it was a 10 gallon tank with live rock, live sand, and 1 clown (ocellaris). I added a second clown and left it at that.
Finally I am ready to upgrade! I bought a 45 gallon tank in January, filled it with 30lbs of new live rock, (and 10lbs of live rock from the 10 gallon tank) also I added more live sand and let it cycle. I’ve recently transferred the two clown fish into the new tank along with a couple of snails I’ve had for a while.
Now I’m trying to plan for what’s next! I want to eventually have fish and lps.
I set up the old 10 gallon tank as a quarantine tank, due to the research I’ve done I figured this was a no brainer. I’m reaching out because I’m curious to whether or not people qt their cuc? I was about to start adding my first fish but this threw me for a loop. To qt cuc do I need to add sand and rock to the qt? Do I need two separate qt tanks? I’m in a small apartment so space is limited. does scrubbing snail/hermit shells prevent the introduction of pests? Any and all advice is welcome!
Also I would love some input to reef safe fish that would do well in a 45 gallon, and some of your favorite lps beginner corals!
I currently have a fluval 307 canister filter (I couldn’t/didn’t have what I needed to do a sump) But I plan on adding a protein skimmer in the next month. Will this suffice for filtration?
sorry for the long post, and thank you if you read this far!
I’m relatively new to the hobby, and new to reef2reef!
I took over a friends saltwater tank a couple of years ago, it was a 10 gallon tank with live rock, live sand, and 1 clown (ocellaris). I added a second clown and left it at that.
Finally I am ready to upgrade! I bought a 45 gallon tank in January, filled it with 30lbs of new live rock, (and 10lbs of live rock from the 10 gallon tank) also I added more live sand and let it cycle. I’ve recently transferred the two clown fish into the new tank along with a couple of snails I’ve had for a while.
Now I’m trying to plan for what’s next! I want to eventually have fish and lps.
I set up the old 10 gallon tank as a quarantine tank, due to the research I’ve done I figured this was a no brainer. I’m reaching out because I’m curious to whether or not people qt their cuc? I was about to start adding my first fish but this threw me for a loop. To qt cuc do I need to add sand and rock to the qt? Do I need two separate qt tanks? I’m in a small apartment so space is limited. does scrubbing snail/hermit shells prevent the introduction of pests? Any and all advice is welcome!
Also I would love some input to reef safe fish that would do well in a 45 gallon, and some of your favorite lps beginner corals!
I currently have a fluval 307 canister filter (I couldn’t/didn’t have what I needed to do a sump) But I plan on adding a protein skimmer in the next month. Will this suffice for filtration?
sorry for the long post, and thank you if you read this far!
