Free tank!!

[EZMAC114]

So I recently got a free tank setup from a friend of my girlfriends uncle. It's a 36 gallon bow front that has been setup for about a year. I've moved some bigger tanks before so this was an easy one. I was so excited to get this tank because we already wanted to setup a small reef tank and we were in the process of sell our 55. So the tank came with live sand, live rock, 2 Occelaris Clownfish(one had some issue that I couldn't resolve and died), two Banggai Cardinal fish(one looks very malnourished) and they are both males so I think one is just more dominant, two Pajama Cardinal fish(sold them with the 55 gallon tank), a ton of tiny starfish, 5 nassarius snails, waving hand coral and flower pot coral that was 90% dead. For filtration it came with a Cascade 1000 canister filter which I switched with my 55 so I could have my Fluval 406 which I like better...it came with an inline heater that I removed but am thinking of putting back on and a small powerhead. I added a couple small frags that I already had and recently bought(birthday present) a Blue Tuxedo Urchin, a Duncan frag, Jasmine polyp frag and the urchin came with a hitchhiker which was a Clove polyp. I'm going to be getting a Hydro slim skim protein skimmer in the near future and adding a full spectrum LED light(Christmas present). Oh and the tank also came with Cyanobacteria that I am trying to get rid of lol

 

[zesty]

No such thing as a free tank, sorry. :tongue: You gotten to this point for free...Now you get to empty your wallet into this glass bucket filled with water. but it will be fun!

Unless you're religious with cleaning your canister filter, be careful, they can capture the detritus and hide it from us. The hidden detritus is your enemy.

Yes, add some powerheads, that will help your cyano.


But good score for sure! It's not very common to get a setup like that for nothing! Stick around here, if you're like me, those rocks will be covered in corals someday and you'll be planning numerous upgrades...

 

[EZMAC114]

No such thing as a free tank, sorry. :tongue: You gotten to this point for free...Now you get to empty your wallet into this glass bucket filled with water. but it will be fun!

Unless you're religious with cleaning your canister filter, be careful, they can capture the detritus and hide it from us. The hidden detritus is your enemy.

Yes, add some powerheads, that will help your cyano.


But good score for sure! It's not very common to get a setup like that for nothing! Stick around here, if you're like me, those rocks will be covered in corals someday and you'll be planning numerous upgrades...

Hahahaha yeah that is true...the setup was free but not everything else it needs. I've had that canister for a year now on my old tank but I do need to do a better cleaning of it lol. I've wanted to do a small reef just didn't have the money to buy another setup so these rocks will slowly but surely start getting covered with coral! I've also already been thinking about doing a small sump or refugium setup. And I was already planning on getting a stronger powerhead because that one is tiny!

 

[zesty]

Well, in the meantime with the canister. You can empty it out, put some live rock or a bag of chemipure blue/elite or bag of carbon and hook it up that way.

Think of it at a mini-sump. It will also make cleaning it much much easier if you don't have all that media in there.

 

[EZMAC114]

That's a good idea...so it'll be like a sump setup but in a canister

 

[zesty]

That's a good idea...so it'll be like a sump setup but in a canister

Bingo!!