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Well I've had saltwater a few times, once back in the late 70's, once in the 80's, and a couple of years ago. These were always fish only tanks except for maybe some shrimp, crabs, and an anemone.
This will be a 20long nano tank with mostly corals and a couple shrimp and a fish or two.
I'll be posting everything here I buy, trade, or steal.

I'm starting with a new 20Long purchased at Petco for a buck a gallon. I got this a couple months ago.
I have black sand from a freshwater tank, just need to wash it.
Today I traded a bunch of 1"+ longfin plecos to WUW for protein skimmer.
I'm working on my girls to buy their daddy a LED light for Christmas, we'll see how that goes.
I have a 6 stage r/o unit coming tomorrow.
I have a hob filter I'm going to put Chemi-Pure Elite in to keep the phosphates in check, hopefully.

I still need to get, I figure, reef salts, a good hydrometer, a TDS meter, maybe a couple different test kits, and I'm guessing some live rock once the tank is set up.
If you have any of these items for sale, drop me a note.
Don't hesitate to post any suggestions you might have or pitfalls I need to be on the lookout for.
Stay tuned.

Wishing you the best of luck! Saltys sure are pretty. I am pretty sure I am too lazy to maintain a new setup though.

Well this will be upstairs in the entry way so it will have to be well maintained for obvious reasons. I have been told the r/o unit has arrived

I am excited about your new adventure into the salty world. I keep my very low keyed but enjoy having a salt tank. It gives me clout when someone hears I have fish they always ask if I keep any salt tanks so by having one I can say yes and be more accepted in all fish circles. If you have multiple tanks, a salt tank and an RODI unit, man you are in!

the kids went in and got me the light off Amazon so now all thats left is a tds meter and some reef crystals. hopefully after Christmas

What few pieces I needed I got last week. So I set up the tank, last Wednesday. It has some "live rock" and a pieces of coral I picked up Cozumel at Thanksgiving. I bleached it and dried it for some time. It has Whisper Jr for mechanical filtering with some Chemi-pure Elite in the bag to remove phosphates. I have a small water pump powered protein skimmer and a small water pump for movement. The lighting is provided by a 24" Current LED fixture. It's programmable and supposed to support corals.
Thursday I'll go to WUW to have the water checked and see if I can a little something in there. I'm already with it not having creatures swimming of crawling around.
I have a test kit which read zero phosphates. Jack D was kind enough to send me his refractor for checking specific gravity.
Here's pic a pic. Once I get something alive in it, I'll take another pic.

Nice! Good to see it wet!

Looks good. Keep it going!

Did you get some moving stuff in there yet?

BobbyM wrote:Did you get some moving stuff in there yet?

nope just some waving stringy algae. gonna pick up a clown wed at wuw

Pick up some snails to eat that algae.