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Originally Posted by aquasalt  Do you know how many lbs of LR you have in there? What exactly happened to your first tank? |
I estimate about 120lbs of live rock. I tried to set my 55 up as salt water back in the day and did a multitude of stupid things unfortunately:
* I used a Lowe's double shop light sitting directly on the tank and electrical current was getting into the tank.
* I added an Anemone too soon and it died and turned the tank all milky
* I rushed the fish additions and also added predatory fish (Lunar Wrasse and a Valentino Puffer) with Shrimp
Anyway, the Anemone wipe out was when I took the tank down. I did manage to keep a Yellow Tang and a Tomatoe clown for about a year but I didn't take very good care of the tank back then, I tended to be cheap and the LFS at the time wasn't very good. I kept African Cichlids for about four years in the 55 after the SW wipe out and then made the jump to a larger SW tank with my current venture.
Having a RO/DI unit is great because it seems anytime I am ready to do a water change is the day that the fish store is closed. In the past I didn't buy one which made me lazy about water changes. I also bought one of those cheap Skilter HOB which I'm not sure if it ever worked.