hillie
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Hello everyone!
It's been a long while since I've been posting - following a foot op last year, we had a disaster with our RSM 130 and lost most of our corals (long story so I won't bore you). Tone was ready to give up completely and sell the tank, but I persuaded him to soldier on. We were overrun with algae which killed most of our corals. The only corals we could save were our Australian Bubble, a large toadstall (although that "threw" it's foot and is only slowly recovering), a small toadstall and a finger coral.
After a major clean up we added a nem, which has subsequently split. The tank is looking good, albeit a bit empty...............BUT..........
having been re-invigorated, we have decided to buy a RSM 350 Reefer
so I thought I'd better hard-foot it back on here asap :w00t: and hence posting in medium tanks.
We're pricing everything up and trying to choose the equipment that doesn't come with the tank, so I'll be cruising other threads to see what other people have bought. We've never had a sump before, so this will be a learning curve for us!
I tried to post a couple of photos of our RSM 130, but when I press on the icon at the top I just get a blank page (I think it's this blasted Windows laptop).
So, we are thinking of getting:
- Bubble Magus Curve 5 skimmer
- Marine DC DCT4000 return pump
- for water movement, Maxspect Gyre 130
- 2 reactors - Bubble Magus Mini 70- one for Rowaphos and one for carbon (as we've been told the socks are best filled with floss)
- 10kg live white fine sand
- Aragonite so the sand doesn't fly all over the tank
We've already got:
- a stack of dead live rock from when we shut our previous 4 foot tank down
- Maxspect Razr 160 (which is over our RSM130 currently) - we've had this a couple of years now so will change the lenses from 90 to 120 degrees
- heaters
Have we forgotten any major items?
Thanks!
It's been a long while since I've been posting - following a foot op last year, we had a disaster with our RSM 130 and lost most of our corals (long story so I won't bore you). Tone was ready to give up completely and sell the tank, but I persuaded him to soldier on. We were overrun with algae which killed most of our corals. The only corals we could save were our Australian Bubble, a large toadstall (although that "threw" it's foot and is only slowly recovering), a small toadstall and a finger coral.
After a major clean up we added a nem, which has subsequently split. The tank is looking good, albeit a bit empty...............BUT..........
having been re-invigorated, we have decided to buy a RSM 350 Reefer
so I thought I'd better hard-foot it back on here asap :w00t: and hence posting in medium tanks.We're pricing everything up and trying to choose the equipment that doesn't come with the tank, so I'll be cruising other threads to see what other people have bought. We've never had a sump before, so this will be a learning curve for us!
I tried to post a couple of photos of our RSM 130, but when I press on the icon at the top I just get a blank page (I think it's this blasted Windows laptop).
So, we are thinking of getting:
- Bubble Magus Curve 5 skimmer
- Marine DC DCT4000 return pump
- for water movement, Maxspect Gyre 130
- 2 reactors - Bubble Magus Mini 70- one for Rowaphos and one for carbon (as we've been told the socks are best filled with floss)
- 10kg live white fine sand
- Aragonite so the sand doesn't fly all over the tank
We've already got:
- a stack of dead live rock from when we shut our previous 4 foot tank down
- Maxspect Razr 160 (which is over our RSM130 currently) - we've had this a couple of years now so will change the lenses from 90 to 120 degrees
- heaters
Have we forgotten any major items?
Thanks!
