New Tank and New Beginning!

Well it's time to actually start off the tank right! I'm a bit behind in the whole 'blogging this adventure' so a few first posts will be playing catch up. Don't worry, I'm going to be trying to play catch up as fast as possible!

So, to start it all off when my wife and I moved to our new home, she commented that she missed our old salt water tank and mused on the fact it would be nice to have a nice reef tank up in the living room. Now, I am all for that but I wanted something more compact then my long 90 gallon so I looked at some of the smaller tanks.

Flash forward a few weeks, we had come across a 60 gallon cube tank at our Local Fish store Aqua Pets (http://bit.ly/xrliye) that included the tank and stand for 650. With some in-store credit we managed to walk out of there with it at 615.50 tax included. Not a bad steal imo.

The one problem we quickly ran into with this tank was the fact that the stand was narrow. In fact most typical sumps would NOT fit in it. The guys at aqua pets offered to build a custom sump but again would not fit the stand quite right and cost around $250. Searching online I came across a sump made by Marineland (also the makers of tank) that fit it like a glove AND for 229 dollars. So....we snatched that one up.

Now with the lightning, both my wife and I agreed that LED lighting was the way to go. We viewed many at this years MACNA and were equally impressed. So since I was on a kick anyway with Marineland, I picked up 2 reef ready LEDS from them! Brilliant stuff. Honestly the light coming from these compact units is IMPRESSIVE!

So anyway! Just a brief run down of the new tank. I'll include a list of the parts, where I got them, and for how much. Also, a photobomp of pictures of the tank put together as it's cyling!

Please become a friend of the blog, I believe there should be a button onhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif the side bar some where over there -----> and post a comment if you have any questions! I'll wrap up this brief introduction to the tank and sometime tomorrow I'll bring up my live rock adventure!


Equipment:
- 60 gallon Marineland Cube Tank (Aqua Pets http://bit.ly/xrliye)
- C3 Marineland Sump $229.99
- 2x Marineland Reef Ready LED - Amazon - $360
- 250 watt Marineland Visi-Therm Heater - Amazon - $25.34
- Marineland NJ3000 Maxi-Jet - Amazon - $88.00