Comments on: If I buy an Aquapod 24g, what additional equipment would I need for a saltwater set up? http://reefanswers.com/if-i-buy-an-aquapod-24g-what-additional-equipment-would-i-need-for-a-saltwater-set-up Answers to Your Reef Aquarium Questions Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:01:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Cammy http://reefanswers.com/if-i-buy-an-aquapod-24g-what-additional-equipment-would-i-need-for-a-saltwater-set-up#comment-268 Cammy Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:17:47 +0000 http://reefanswers.com/if-i-buy-an-aquapod-24g-what-additional-equipment-would-i-need-for-a-saltwater-set-up#comment-268 Get rdy, Here is the place to go for all your questions, specifically nano: Here is a link in that site to get you started: My personal tank: 1. 29gallon glass 2. iorn stand 3. aquaclear 110 & 70 power filters, One made into a fuge (directions for this on the site as well.) 4. 20lbs reefsand 5. 60 lbs Live Rock 6. heater 7. PC 130watt light 50/50 8. $15 protein skimmer, (don't let anyone talk you into a $100+ skimmer, as long as it makes froth it's working) Odds and ends: filter floss, various seachem products, (I found denitrate, declorinator and thier carbon and purigen are great products) Mag floats, babybottle cleaners to clean impellers and some gloves, tongs and buckets. Depending on your tap water quality you may need a RO unit, if not a cheap pump to mix your salt water in a bucket will be needed. Oh and don't forget testing supplies, specifically the hydrometer or refactimator, and ammonia, nitrate, nitrite tests. I use aquarium pharmaceuticals Money saving tip. You can pricematch any price petsmart has online instore as long a you print out a invoice. And ebay has some nice LiveRock sellers. Have fun with your tank Get rdy,

Here is the place to go for all your questions, specifically nano:

Here is a link in that site to get you started:

My personal tank:

1. 29gallon glass
2. iorn stand
3. aquaclear 110 & 70 power filters, One made into a fuge (directions for this on the site as well.)
4. 20lbs reefsand
5. 60 lbs Live Rock
6. heater
7. PC 130watt light 50/50
8. $15 protein skimmer, (don’t let anyone talk you into a $100+ skimmer, as long as it makes froth it’s working)

Odds and ends: filter floss, various seachem products, (I found denitrate, declorinator and thier carbon and purigen are great products) Mag floats, babybottle cleaners to clean impellers and some gloves, tongs and buckets.

Depending on your tap water quality you may need a RO unit, if not a cheap pump to mix your salt water in a bucket will be needed.

Oh and don’t forget testing supplies, specifically the hydrometer or refactimator, and ammonia, nitrate, nitrite tests. I use aquarium pharmaceuticals

Money saving tip. You can pricematch any price petsmart has online instore as long a you print out a invoice.
And ebay has some nice LiveRock sellers.

Have fun with your tank

]]> By: BIGgourami http://reefanswers.com/if-i-buy-an-aquapod-24g-what-additional-equipment-would-i-need-for-a-saltwater-set-up#comment-267 BIGgourami Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:00:37 +0000 http://reefanswers.com/if-i-buy-an-aquapod-24g-what-additional-equipment-would-i-need-for-a-saltwater-set-up#comment-267 ok well looking over your new addition, the lighing seems good for anything exeptthe VERY MOST light hungry corals, anenomes, and clams the bioballs should come in the 2nd stage of the filter (the middle) and i personally would recomend using live rock rubble instead, it doesn't need to be cleaned like bioballs do(decreasing the efficentcy of them for a time, while the bacteria regrow. and may cause re-cycling). another powerhead is never a bad thing but your return pumps sound more than adequate you may want a little one for multi direntional flow. a reugium is always a good idea but more money. and the skimmer is still a good idea. ok well looking over your new addition, the lighing seems good for anything exeptthe VERY MOST light hungry corals, anenomes, and clams
the bioballs should come in the 2nd stage of the filter (the middle) and i personally would recomend using live rock rubble instead, it doesn’t need to be cleaned like bioballs do(decreasing the efficentcy of them for a time, while the bacteria regrow. and may cause re-cycling).
another powerhead is never a bad thing but your return pumps sound more than adequate you may want a little one for multi direntional flow.
a reugium is always a good idea but more money. and the skimmer is still a good idea.

]]> By: PyRo http://reefanswers.com/if-i-buy-an-aquapod-24g-what-additional-equipment-would-i-need-for-a-saltwater-set-up#comment-266 PyRo Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:35:26 +0000 http://reefanswers.com/if-i-buy-an-aquapod-24g-what-additional-equipment-would-i-need-for-a-saltwater-set-up#comment-266 i believe they need another pump to increase circulation, what was EVERYTHIG thgat came with it and i will repost my opinion tommorrow second post-sounds great, remove the filter pad and bioballs, use about 20-25lbs of rock and a thin layer of bottom sand and your ready to go! for a DIY fuge and good choice on a skimmer could be found on nano-reefs.com, i had a 5g nano and used no skimmer so i cannot recommend a good skimmer for a small tank, i was actually looking into a fuge for my nano, i was going to make it out of a lees container and use the airline input of my powerhead as the pump to it. i believe they need another pump to increase circulation, what was EVERYTHIG thgat came with it and i will repost my opinion tommorrow

second post-sounds great, remove the filter pad and bioballs, use about 20-25lbs of rock and a thin layer of bottom sand and your ready to go! for a DIY fuge and good choice on a skimmer could be found on nano-reefs.com, i had a 5g nano and used no skimmer so i cannot recommend a good skimmer for a small tank, i was actually looking into a fuge for my nano, i was going to make it out of a lees container and use the airline input of my powerhead as the pump to it.

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