Salt Water Aquarium
Made by Alexis Quiles
Products Need to Use
- 46" Bowfront Stand
- 46 Gallon Bowfront System II Aquarium (including built-in filtration)
- 36" Dual Satellite Compact Fluorescent Fixture or a light fixture
- 100W Visi-Therm heater
- Cora life Power Center
- Two, 20-lb bags of Indo Pacific Black Sand
- 50-gal mix of Tropic M. Salt
- 36# of Select Lalo live rock
- Fiji live rock
- Prizm Skimmer
Step One
- Fill the tank with the sand
- Prepare to mix salt water in a container, maintaining the gravity at 1.025
- Then carefully fill the tank up with the salt water
- Set up all the equipment in the tank and prizm skimmer
- For the next week watch the water pH
Step Two
Buy the deluxe algae attack pack (snails and crabs)
- Use a timer to set a light to go on and off every 12 hours
- then wait another two weeks
Step 3
Now its time to buy the beginner coral pack it, which contains Button Polyp, Yellow Colony Polyp, Hairy Mushroom Coral, and Bullseye Mushroom Coral.
- Perform a 25% water change
- Than gather corals and place them on the livestock
- Wait another two weeks
Maintaining the Reef
- Monitor and test water
- Perform a 25% water change once a month
- Feed thawed food twice a day in small amounts to the fish
- Iodine
- Calcium
- Buffer
- Strontium
Requirements
- Light
- Hood
- Filter
- Blubber
- Gravel
- Life
- Food
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