Howdy - Tri-Cities Reef Club Forum

BCSWEENEY · Moderator

RE: Howdy

lmarchell · Senior Member

Welcome to the club. Sounds like you are in the right place an heading in the right direction. Hope to meet ya at the meeting good luck.

BugiSti · Guru

Haha pretty sure ur gonna make a lot of ppl jealous with the brs eco rock! One being me!! Lol sounding like a great build!!

cquillen · Veteran Member

BCSWEENEY wrote:

X2...how much live rock are you planning on getting. Hope you can make it to the meeting.

I think I'm going to get 100lb of the dry eco rock from BulkReefSupply.com, then pick up a few pounds of live rock from lfs to seed the tank. Unfortunately none I've seen at the LFSs have any coralines at all. Doesn't anyone have decent live rock?

cquillen · Veteran Member

BugiSti wrote:

Wow! Well it def sounds like your heading in the right direction!! Welcome to tcrc!!! Hope to see you at our feb meeting at aquatix???

I am planning on coming to the meeting.

leb · Moderator

sounds like your well on your way the skimmer generally needs to be rated twice the vollum of your tank.and the aragalive sand should have packets of bacteris to activate the sand in them.and if you tell us we can get together and get you some water from our waterchanger to help jump start yout system.Just ask.

BCSWEENEY · Moderator

BugiSti wrote:

Wow! Well it def sounds like your heading in the right direction!! Welcome to tcrc!!! Hope to see you at our feb meeting at aquatix???

X2...how much live rock are you planning on getting. Hope you can make it to the meeting.

BugiSti · Guru

Wow! Well it def sounds like your heading in the right direction!! Welcome to tcrc!!! Hope to see you at our feb meeting at aquatix???

cquillen · Veteran Member

I kept freshwater aquariums for years, but sold most of my stuff about 7 years ago when I had to relocate for a new job. I have decided that it's high time to get back into the hobby, except this time I'm doing to do saltwater.

Hello TCRC!

I was at Aquatics & Exotics yesterday and saw the club flier on the counter. I was surprised and pleased to find a local club!

I bought myself a 150g tank and stand combo from Sea Oddities for christmas, but it's still at the store. I have had some trouble finding a truck and muscle to borrow to help me move it. Hopefully I'll have it soon.

Anyways... I've been doing a lot of research online and I plan on doing a deep sand bed (3+ inches) and live rock in the main tank plus a DSB, LR, and macro algae in my sump's refugium section.

I'll start a tank build thread once I start going, but here's what I've got so far:

Tank: 150g Aqueon

Stand: 18x72 Aqueon Modern Series Stand (Oak)

This stand is MUCH nicer than the stand pine ones.

RODI: Typhoon III Extreme from Air, Water, & Ice.

This is a 150GPD unit with an in/out TDS meter.

Skimmer: AquaC EV-180

I bought this skimmer years ago we I was planning a 75g system. I'm worried it might be to small for a 150. Been thinking about selling it and getting one of newer needle wheel designs. The Trigger Systems Bursa looks very nice.

Substrate: Carbisea Aragamax

I currently have 150lbs and have another 180lbs ordered for a total of 330lbs. I hope that'll be enuf for at least 3" deep sand bed. I plan on getting the live sand activator kit from http://www.ipsf.com/livesand.html.

Sump: Custom from macilwu on ebay.

This is a Melevsreef.com Model F type sump. It should be awesome.

Stuff I still need to get:

Lights

Pumps

Heater

Rock

Salt

Refractometer

RO storage/mixing containers

I'll post more detail about my plans for these items later. Gotta get ready for Church.