Suggestions And Help On 2ft Marin Tank?

[Buddy33]

hey guys i have a spare 2ft tank. 66Liters and i was just wondering how hard is it to start a small marin tank just to get used to it?
i have a 3ft tropical tank and its going fine. but i have no idea whats involed with salt water tanks.

Can someone please help me with what i would need to buy and just whats involed with marins tanks?
im not starting it this week but was thinking of setting one up one day soon??

 

[rabbut]

What do you want to keep? Fish only, Fish and mobile invertibrates (snails, crabs, shrimp e.t.c) or a full reef set-up with corals? A lot of this deturmins what you need equipment wise

All the best
Rabbut

 

[Buddy33]

guess a full reef?
will make my 150l tank marine abit later if i get whats going on with the 2ft tank??

 

[SkiFletch]

Well, I'd reccomend starting with reading the stickies atop this section. You'll need to start learning about concepts like Live Rock, flowrate, lighting, water quality, and chemistry to name a few. Lots of reading in your near future, but tanks like yours can be good starter tanks . So have a read, look through some journals and when stuff starts confusing you, ask away .

Also generally when setting up a reef, the best idea is to choose what kind of corals you want, and then pick hardware to match those corals as they're usually the most demanding organism in the system.