castiel
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So while shopping around aquariums yesterday (was actually trying to find some sterbai cories, but failed) we spotted the new Dymax IQ5 tanks at a local store. They had one on the counter set up as a mini reef, which I thought was awesome. And my wife is getting a small bonus from work next week, so said she would buy me one as a present!
So off we trotted to go back and get one today, only for the wife to decide she wanted one too! So we ended up with matching (purple was the only colour they had left) IQ5 nano tanks! I left her at the counter to pay while I had a nose around, only to come up to find she had also bought the Dymax heaters and lids to go with it! Which isn't a bad thing, though I had figured I would get heaters later and probably cheaper ones.
We then called at another store on the way home to get some saltwater (had spotted that recently) and some live rock (more on that below). But they had no sand ... so tried yet another (third for the day) and they had just the kind we wanted!
So obviously had to set these up straight away and here is the result:
His (mine):
Hers:
I've read a fair bit about the lights, so will probably add a second in due course. But not sure about the pump, whether it provides enough flow.
Now I'm already wondering whether we did the right thing with the rock. The guy at the store made it clear that it's base rock, so not suddenly going to spring into life.
My first newbie question is - will this cycle with only base rock in there, or does it need something to kick start this?
And given the size of the tank, are we better hunting down some 'real' live rock and replacing this? Or adding to the top.
Looking forward this, I have a lot to learn but really keen to get a cool little reef going =0)
Cheers
Peter
So off we trotted to go back and get one today, only for the wife to decide she wanted one too! So we ended up with matching (purple was the only colour they had left) IQ5 nano tanks! I left her at the counter to pay while I had a nose around, only to come up to find she had also bought the Dymax heaters and lids to go with it! Which isn't a bad thing, though I had figured I would get heaters later and probably cheaper ones.
We then called at another store on the way home to get some saltwater (had spotted that recently) and some live rock (more on that below). But they had no sand ... so tried yet another (third for the day) and they had just the kind we wanted!
So obviously had to set these up straight away and here is the result:
His (mine):
Hers:
I've read a fair bit about the lights, so will probably add a second in due course. But not sure about the pump, whether it provides enough flow.
Now I'm already wondering whether we did the right thing with the rock. The guy at the store made it clear that it's base rock, so not suddenly going to spring into life.
My first newbie question is - will this cycle with only base rock in there, or does it need something to kick start this?
And given the size of the tank, are we better hunting down some 'real' live rock and replacing this? Or adding to the top.
Looking forward this, I have a lot to learn but really keen to get a cool little reef going =0)
Cheers
Peter