Spare parts Reef Tank(sprt)

[DancingShark]

If you have been in this hobby for some time you probably have enough equipment to open up a small store. I have been Reef keeping for about 16 months now. I was cleaning my basement and I grouped all my aquarium equipment to one corner and a idea came to my head. Why not start a small reef tank, so I did.

The light was bought from points accumulated through Amazon rewards. Corals were propagate from my main display.

How else here has a SPRT.

 

[Crabs McJones]

If you have been in this hobby for some time you probably have enough equipment to open up a small store. I have been Reef keeping for about 16 months now. I was cleaning my basement and I grouped all my aquarium equipment to one corner and a idea came to my head. Why not start a small reef tank, so I did.

The light was bought from points accumulated through Amazon rewards. Corals were propagate from my main display.

How else here has a SPRT.

I have a spare 10 gallon tank chilling in my basement that I've been itching to turn into a tank for my daughter.

 

[DancingShark]

I have a spare 10 gallon tank chilling in my basement that I've been itching to turn into a tank for my daughter.

This was the main reason I slapped this one together. I built it with my son and daughter. Let them mix the salt and rinse out the sand which I had about 15 pounds spare. They loved it. Hopefully next gen reefers.
I say go for it.

 

[dbl]

What a great idea...I could do at least two more, but it would likely cost me half of everything I own!

 

[Maggie321]

So you are saying you could start 2 spare part reef tanks and it would only consume 1/2 of what you own? What are you waiting for? Get those 4 tanks up and running!

 

[dbl]

So you are saying you could start 2 spare part reef tanks and it would only consume 1/2 of what you own? What are you waiting for? Get those 4 tanks up and running!

Well...I guess that is one way to interpret that.

 

[DancingShark]

So I guess nobody else on r2r has set up a small reef tank with the spare parts they have gathered over the years. That's a lot of wasted potential.

 

[MTBake]

I have 2 clown fish in a 10 gallon observation tank. I'm going to turn that into a mantis shrimp setup once the clonwns go into my display next weekend.

 

[DancingShark]

Those are cool. I think i saw one pop a puffer fish once. It was so sad so see. Puffers seem so sweet with their big puppy eyes.

Be sure to post it. Once done.

 

[fish farmer]

My spare parts are probably going to be a QT tank = 20 gallon tall, HOB filter, heater.

The two 55 gallon tanks I got for free are going to become bait tanks for locally collected smelt/minnows for icefishing. I have a good pile of bioballs..planning on some type of trickle filter.

I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my 175 watt MH provided the ballast still works.

 

[Razz]

I have an extra 10 and 29 gallon tank. I've been thinking about setting up a frag tank or maybe a species specific tank, like a mantis shrimp. Not sure what I want to do...lol...The only thing I don't have is an extra light for coral but that's not a big deal, I'll just buy one...lol...maybe the 10 for coral, the 29 for a mantis or something. Or maybe the 29 for coral and the 10 for a sump for it...One day I'll decide...