how hard would this be

ok i have a 135 that i was putting together for a cichlid tank when my buddy pointed out that i'm not to far off from going salt... great put that in my head... anyway here's what i got so far i have a tank that is about 5 days away from completing its cycle.

Filter: i have an Fx5 with custom spray bar, in the process of adding a 30 gal sump, biggest i could fit through the door on my stand, with an hob overflow. flow will be about 600gph.

Lighting: is a 4ft shop light with 2 40 watt plant bulbs, going to be changing that out with 4 3ft 96 watt cfl 96 Watt Bright Kits 2 with 10000k bulbs and 2 with [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]10000K/Deep Blue 03 Combo bulbs.

Substrate: i have PFS, i was told i could add live rock and it would get my sand going? oh and i have about 30lbs of lace rock in there to.

how much more would i have to do to go marine? also the water form my well is HEAVY with calcium i've been told it would be awsome for salt water.


here's the spray bar


the tank (cycling with feeders)


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Well your cycle would start over when you change to salt.

Are you looking to fish only or reef? That will determine what you will need to change.

Welcome to 3reef.

 

REEF defiantly REEF... maybe. Seriously i want to start slow and build my way up to a nice reef with lots of color and life

 

If you are going reef you will want to get a much better light, a skimmer and a RO/DI filter.
You will want a refractometer to measure your salinity.

No quite sure what your sand is but you would want aragonite based sand. You will want at least another 100lbs of rock. The lace rock is OK but ocean rock is better as it is coral skeletons and more porous than the lace rock and a better for nitrogen reduction.