F.H.I.L. 55g FOWLR

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FOWLR night time by Erick Sundeen, on FlickrS

tarting a saltwater tank is new to me but keeping fish I have been doing since for 20 years now (im 31). I love the hobby and yes saltwater was on my list to start when I got the resources. After a year of research and asking the right people I finally got into the hobby. People say to keey a log. Yes I do keep a test log but I also wanna keep a Story Blog of this 55g tank eco system. Every tank has a story so lets call this tank ...F.H.I.L. my Fun Hobby In Life. Go ahead name your tank. Its your project and baby so you should be prowd of it.

SO FHIL is now a salty 55g tank. His birth into salt started 3/11/13. Happy Brithday FHIL. Now 8 days into the cycle I recieved my LED lighting. 48" on top with 174 LED 10k. 12 of whice are acticnic. Im learning alot just by doing and researching and doing it the safe way. I just used a can filter for now to keep the water flowing on FHIL and 2x 800gh Power Heads. Put a HOB 80g rate Skimmer on it also and put biomass in my can filter with bioballs. Eventually when I make a custom stand for FHIL (he is sitting on a china hutch that looks like a dresser, and yes easilly holds up) i'll get a sump and a HOB over flow and go that route. For now im starting small. Live rock i have about 40LBS and did some aqua scaping with it also. About 70LBS of Live sand so i got a nice bed going also.

At this moment FHIL is still cycling and my plans for him are a FOWLR so far. CUC will come in about 3 weeks i estimate. I would like to do coral in the future but that will come once the upgrades to sum/fuge are in place. Time line on that is a good year plus.

So now here I am thinking i'll write and keep people up to date on the Life of FHIL. So give me some suggestions as to fish to intruduce after the CUC is in. My wife does want a pair of o. clowns. But what else is good. What does the populace like in FOWLR tanks. Comments are always welcome.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Nice start Erick! Looking forward to updates.

 

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F.H.I.L. is now done cycling. all rates are zero now and diatoms on the rock. So I have ordered a CUC for him from reefcleaners.org very nice for the price. While i was doing this i say on craigslist a saltwater aquarium being torn down and the fish being sold. So I got FHIL a pair of Clown Fish for $20 and quarantined them in a 10g now. Also got a Coral-banded shrimp, peppermint shrimp, and Cleaner Skunk shrimp, all for $20 nice deal for that and the shrimp are hard at work. So now its a waiting game. The CUC will be in on Wednesday along with the starfish and another peppermint shrimp. More to come later as FHIL develops