new here!

Hey all, I just wanted to atke a second and say hello.I have slowly been learning about saltwater as I've always had fresh water tanks. I am slowly building a 55 gallon tank. I have a 55 gallon freshwater up and running with 2 irridesent sharks, 3 red fin sharks, a bala shark, a 6 in clown loach, 6 in common pleco, a random tetra and a gold fish. Like I mentioned before I'm just starting saltwater and currently have the following items for it.

55 gallon tank,
Stand,
48" shop light. Not the best but cheapest.
75 gallon rated sandman filter,
60 gallon rated double overflow filter,
100 watt heater.
And drum roll.... 50 lbs of quikrete fine grade sand! Lol took me 3 hours to rinse clean but much, much cheaper than$45 for 40 lbs at the pet store. 50 lb bag cost me $4.00. Lol

All I need now is some live rock and lace rock.. anybody have some extra? Lol

My stock list is some what small
a couple ocellaris clowns,
yellow tang,
some type of sand sifting goby,
Chocolate chip star fish,
Some anenomes,
And IF I can swing it a blue tang.

Thanks for reading this and I look forward to meeting new people!

Travis

 

It's not concrete. All it is is a fine grade sand that has been washed, kiln dried and is almost 100% silica free. A guy I know has 100 lbs in his tank and evey thing is ok.

 

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