Hi everybody! I have wanted to do this for years but I’m just now converting over to salt water (now that all my freshwater fish have passed RIP) I have a 50 gallon corner model tank. I cleaned it out really well replaced with live sand, filled with salt water. Tested water (everything seems good nit, ph etc) I have a wave pump and hydrometer coming in the mail Tomorrow and coral rocks arriving next week. Not 100 percent sure where to place things: the pump and rocks. Or even if I’m doing this right sense my tank is so funky. I don’t plan on getting any creatures for awhile I want to make sure everything is good before I start to purchase them. Any suggestions help thank you!
Newbie! Tank, water, sand. That’s where I’m at.
- Thread starter Jamo7
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Ok thanks! Are these living plants? Sorry I’m new to this, I can only do so much reading online. I also received a wave pump today. Any particular depth or direction you recommend? Or does it mater? So I have the filter pumping and two more directions I can point water flow. Coral rock is in the mail should be here Tuesday.
beaslbob
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Technically no. There are few actual plants that live in saltwater. Plants with circulation systems, roots, leaves and so on. A macro algae is actually an algae that looks like plants. Chaetomorphia looks like a green brillo pad.
that said the macro algae do essentially that same thing for the marine ecosystem and plants if FW systems. On 2003 when I reentered the marine hobby I asked several LFSs about plants and got basically nothing until one guy mentioned macro algae coming in a live rock. I add them in a partition on my 55g and within 3 weeks nitrates dropped down and the fish thrived and grew for the next several years. Just wish I had heard about macros before that.
I guess the save maker should just make waves. I think you judgement will be sufficient.
my .02