36g bowfront conversion to saltwater.

[glb]

Hi everyone,

I have a 36g glass Aqueon tank that's freshwater now and will be converted to saltwater in the near future. It has standard flourescent lights. My question is this. I'm planning on starting with fowlr to give the tank a chance to settle in a while before I start with coral. It's my understanding that corals don't necessarily like new tanks so I wanted to let the tank stabilize for at least several months. My question is do I need to buy new lights now or would it be ok to keep the standard flourescent bulb if it's only live rock. Would the coralline grow? I know I'll need a protein skimmer when I start. If I could wait on the lights I could save up for some nice LEDs. I'm interested in everyone's opinion!


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12g Nanoreef. Zooanthids, Ricordia, Star Polyps, Acans and two clownfish. CF Lighting, 75% actinic blue, 25% 10,000k white.

 

[Planedoc]

You will be fine as long as don't add any coral. Coralline will grow. It's grows like crazy in my sump with just a 6500k cfl bulb.

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[Zoanut]

Standard lights are fine. Maybe invest in a 50/50 bulb to add the right color spectrum for a reef tank "look" but even then it is not needed.

Some advice however, would be to treat the tank like its got coral in it from Day 1. 0 TDS top off & mix water, light to moderate feeding of the fish, water changes, etc...nutrients will accumulate in the sand and rock and its a real bear to get rid of if you let it get out of hand.

 

[Reefing Madness]

You technically don't even need lighting for a FOWLR, so your safe using those lights.