mexicanjavafish

Thanks so much for the welcome everyone This just makes me even more excited to start on my tank! Thanks again Christina

Hmm, well like I said, this is my first tank and I want to keep it simple: soft corals and such on/near the bottom and possibly some LPS near the top. So now my question is how many watts of metal halide would I need in order to keep that up?

. Where do you buy all that white PVC flex tubing?

Ok, so I got put up to asking this question. I've decided due to space restrictions that I'm going to go with a 47 gallon column tank for my "reef". I don't really want to do any of the hard stuff, just some simple corals and a few fish. I think I just want to do soft corals and LPS? So on a tank that is 30" tall, and about 18" wide how much light do i need. I plan to stack my rock pretty high, so it's closer to the light, but I would also like the floor of the tank not to be devoid of life. I'm still learning all the light t5's? PCs? compact florescent? metal halide? NO florescent? It's all so new to me. I also really don't have a very large budget at all. So I guess I just want to know what my options are, and what I'd be best off with? Thanks so much Christina

Hey, so I thought I'd introduce myself: I'm Christina and, as you can probably tell by my status as an egg (and by the topic title...) I'm very new here. After tagging along with a certain 'filter freak' (haha) on a few tank related trips, I got interested myself and decided that I wanted to start my own tank. Nothing too big or more than I can handle, just a few fish and some simple corals are pretty much what I'm interested in starting off with right now--like I said, I'm completely new to everything here! So if anyone has any advice or recommendations on anything it would be very much appreciated. Thanks so much Christina