Custom Saltwater

Custom Saltwater

The value of salt or freshwater aquarium?

I am experienced with fish and would like to calculate the price of one or salty 50-60 gallon water tank or 75 gallon freshwater tank. What more to salt water. I want her to have a reef, with all necessary and good-looking corals, along with a bunch fish such as clowns, tangs and butterfly fish. For tank and equipment, we that sets that come with filters, etc. a custom, it costs $ 1000. I do not think they come with protein skimmers, so as to include. Quite includes everything that should to buy in price. With regard to fresh water, I would want to maintain a wide variety community fish. Please try your hardest give me the most accurate prices, and everything should, including the price of fish. Thank you very much. Oh, and as a tank, I I am looking for a long rectangle or long Bow hours. Tank is not high, but not that which is like Hex.

About 75 grams of fresh water probably you can get everything for $ 300 - $ 400. If choose to make it a reef tank should, refugium, light, filter, protein skimmer, powerheads for water circulation. Want your system to filter pump for at least 10x tank volume per hour. So you want 750 GPH minimum water flow. Lighting is 4 / 7 watts per gallon metal halide is, compact energy and / or actinics. 1.5-2lbs per gallon live rock (live Rock is $ 5 - $ 10.00 for 1-LB) you need kits Reef test buckets to mix in salt water, salt, RO DI water, maybe 50 + LBS of live sand hydrometer to test specific gravity .. Here is a rough estimate: Tank-$ 100 - $ 200 Rock-$ 500 - $ 1500 depending from what you get sand-test $ 50-75 sets-$ 50. hydrometer-$ 10-20 Light-$ 400 - $ 2500 depending on what you get Protein Skimmer-$ 150-250 Refugium-$ 50 + $-heater 40-50 (may be necessary in winter) Chiller-$ 300 (lighting can cause overheating in the warmer months, or you can put the fan blowing over the water tank to keep it cool.) Salt Mix-$ 20 - $ 50 and a bucket Powerhead to mix brine-$ 25,00 RODI filtration unit-$ 150-300 (or may not be able To be born of water from the LFS) fish and corals can be costly. Depends on what you get and where you get them. $ 20-200. For corals you definitely Dont you want a high tank, because then you need more lighting for water depth. Saltwater is very more expensive than fresh. But this is absolutely amazing and well worth it, if you are dedicated to the hobby. There is also all in one reef systems. I have a 24gallon Nano Cube DX by JBJ lighting. I paid $ 250. about it. By the time his I bought everything I needed, rock, sand heater buckets of salt testing kits, etc. etc. and etc. got $ 750. it now .... I got it running for 5 weeks. You simply add are 2 girls, 6 snails and 10 hermit crabs so far. If I could do it again, I would get all in one. You have to understand need more lighting in-Waterflow, there is no way to modify it for refugium (not that I have found yet) plan ahead, take things slow. Reefkeeping can be expensive, but worth it!