Wanting to start corals...please help.

joez

joez

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I'm not very familiar with keep corals...what do you have to do (besides lighting) to keep them healthy? I'd like to do corals in a tank 30 gallons (4ft long 1ft wide 1ft tall) but don't really know where to start.
For lights I have one actinics and one 50/50 both 48in and 40watt.
Does the 4watts/gallon (or what ever is suggested) mean actucal watts, or what would be put out by incadesent equilivent?
 
nm reef

nm reef

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Welcome to the forum...I've never seen you around here before. I really can't answer your question...unless I wanted to write a complete "How to manual"...and I don't write that much. Check this link for some basic info...Reef keeping 101 ...the best advice I could provide would be research and read all the information you can get your hands on...develope a plan for what you want...then apply the information you find towards developing you reef. Patience/research/ and more patience is the key. Keep us posted as you progress...and never hesitate to ask questions as you develope your system.:cool:
 
joez

joez

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Yes...I'm nearly finished. I have to do it a little different though than I wanted. I only had 3" clear pipe to use and it wasn't long enough to house all 50' of air tube. I had to build a clear acrylic box to put alot of the tube in so that I have enough room in the pipe for media to host the anaerobic bacteria.
:)
 
joez

joez

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I've been having trouble making the canopy of my tank. If I nail the wood it splits and it won't glue very well. I think I might have to get a bunch of diff wood, but that's ALOT of work cutting it again.
Once the canopy is done I'll start the cycle and we'll see how well this version of a denitrator works :)
 
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