Hello New 50 Gal

Hello New 50 Gal - Suggestions?

Hello All,

Here are some pics of my first saltwater tank, just started a week ago. Still not quite sure about the aquascape....any suggestions?

50 Gallon Tank
1x Coralife Skimmer Needle Wheel 65 Gallon
1x Eheim Canister 2213
3x Hydor Koralia 2
T5 Current USA Sundial 38" 4 x 39w 10,000k and 460n Actinic w/ Moonlights & 2 Timers
1 x 250w Jagar Submersible Heater

80 lbs Live Rock
50 lbs Live Sand

Probably won't be stocking it for a couple of months though leaving for holidays for 3 weeks in Dec.

 

I like what you have done with the rockwork. Welcome to 3reef. Keep the pics coming. And give us a rundown of your hardware. I am curious.

 

Edited Above. Thanks

 

Yes I was just thinking about that. The picture doesn't allow for very much depth, but yes there are quite a few ledges. However after reading your post it got me thinking and possibly the ledges don't hang out far enough. Something to Definitely Consider, as for the Koralias I made sure they're easy to get to

 

Are you going to do fish only or reef?

 

Definitely wanting to do a reef

 

Whew, I thought you were running PCs there for a moment. I looked up your lighting and T5s came up. Good. It was a concern of mine.

If you do anything more than moderate stocking, I would consider getting a skimmer rated above what you have. A 125 would do nicely. I am a believer in overdoing the skimming, since many of us (myself included) like to stock our tanks to capacity.

Your amount of rock is great, your amount of sand is great.

Running a decent canister filter.....good....just remove the carbon while cycling the tank if you have not already.

You are also going to want to think about flow. I estimate you have about....Oh.....just did the math. Your flow is fine. I came up with about 2000GPH total (40x turnover). Good.

And it is perfectly OK to wait to stock. A few months will let the tank mature to a very comfortable state.

Good job once again.

 

Hey! Very nice rock-work! Carma up!

 

Nice tank for a weeks work!