ISO: saltwater setup for my daughters 5 birthday

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #1 10-10-2012, 04:21 PM

Ken is a great guy to deal with. Highly recommend you go talk to him when you're in the area. As Ken stated, if your space and budget can handle it, a 90g is a good size. Big enough to give you "growing room" for your future fish and corals, but not too big. A 4' 120g is my personal favourite for a "mid" sized tank (4' x 2' x 2') with a 65g-75g sump underneath.

ergezzie · #2 10-19-2012, 08:22 AM

Sooooo.... I bought a 29 gallon bowfront tank. I have about 3 hours a day I am able to devote to the tank & that is due to my daughte being in kindergarten. So now the tank is sitting here, staring at me. Empty... Now what?

Oh! And thank you all for your tips! Very much appreciated!
Kim

mrhasan · #3 10-19-2012, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by ergezzie

Sooooo.... I bought a 29 gallon bowfront tank. I have about 3 hours a day I am able to devote to the tank & that is due to my daughte being in kindergarten. So now the tank is sitting here, staring at me. Empty... Now what?

Oh! And thank you all for your tips! Very much appreciated!
Kim

I do agree with everyone, especially with the 90 gallon system suggestion (very nice dimension). But I personally think that the bigger tank would have been too intimidating for your 5 years old daughter who is obviously going to be a lot involved with the tank (maybe even more than you

). 29 gallon would be more up close and person I would say

Once again, I do agree bigger tank would have been better but yet for this situation, I think 29 gallon is perfect

But you will be upgrading shortly when you daughter finds out puffers require a bigger tank

Now that you have the tank, maybe you would like to take the short cut way of setting it up and getting it started since the birthday is close?

ergezzie · #4 10-19-2012, 08:49 AM

The size of this tanks fits perfect in our living room, it's not too small, but eventually down the road a larger tank would be ideal. I think she has passed on the puffer fish idea as she saw one that puffed out and injured another fish..she said she is prolife and the puffer wasn't nice. But the biggest Black Sea urchin I can find is what she really wants.. And sexy shrimp, Thor something, she knows the name. I have inherited a huge amount of test kits and chemicals, a heater, wave makers, bubble blowers, and about a million other things people have donated to the cause. I have yet to buy salt.. And am completely confused about the sump & protein skimmer part of saltwater. Do I need them? For what I have read, I can go with or without but the with seems the benefits are tremendous.

ergezzie · #5 10-19-2012, 08:52 AM

P.s. Her birthday is on the 26th of Oct.