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Jaydog · 05-01-2008, 11:48 PM

I'm sorry, I guess I'm more confused than I thought. I don't have any reef items in my setup yet. I'm doing okay keeping fish alive, I just can't manage to get anything beond fish. I guess I wanted to get started with the cheaper items first, then if I can make it work with the cheap stuff, then go to bigger, better, and more pricey things. I live in Ohio, and aquarium things in my small town are pretty expencive. My wallet is pretty limited as well having two small childern, 30 years left on my house, and not to mention the cost of everything else in the world skyrocketing. I pretty much do what my buget will allow, (saddly isn't much).
I might show my inexperience here, but how do I make rocks filter everything. My LFS is no help at all. I asked their "marine specialist" for some advice on setting up a refugim. After getting a very confused look from her, she replys, " you don't really need one of those. What you need to do is buy a larger tank, with a sump overflow built in". Somewhere I think she misunderstood what I was asking. Now getting back to the rock filteration, do you still have to suck the poo out? How do you keep everything clean on the sand? I guess I just don't get this reef thing. Maybe I will just stick to a FO without inverts. Sorry if I have waisted your time. Thanks again though for all the help you have given.

05-01-2008, 11:48 PM	#7 (permalink)
Jaydog Tubeworm Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 25 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Is my anemone dying? I'm sorry, I guess I'm more confused than I thought. I don't have any reef items in my setup yet. I'm doing okay keeping fish alive, I just can't manage to get anything beond fish. I guess I wanted to get started with the cheaper items first, then if I can make it work with the cheap stuff, then go to bigger, better, and more pricey things. I live in Ohio, and aquarium things in my small town are pretty expencive. My wallet is pretty limited as well having two small childern, 30 years left on my house, and not to mention the cost of everything else in the world skyrocketing. I pretty much do what my buget will allow, (saddly isn't much). I might show my inexperience here, but how do I make rocks filter everything. My LFS is no help at all. I asked their "marine specialist" for some advice on setting up a refugim. After getting a very confused look from her, she replys, " you don't really need one of those. What you need to do is buy a larger tank, with a sump overflow built in". Somewhere I think she misunderstood what I was asking. Now getting back to the rock filteration, do you still have to suck the poo out? How do you keep everything clean on the sand? I guess I just don't get this reef thing. Maybe I will just stick to a FO without inverts. Sorry if I have waisted your time. Thanks again though for all the help you have given.