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[lancer99]

iron,

Since you're in NoVa, check out the Washington Area Marine Aquarium Society (www.wamas.org) if you haven't already. You have to be a member to use the forums to buy/sell, but it's the best $20 you can spend in this hobby.

Someone just sold a 24G Aquapod w/ 150W MH and stand for $250 ($400 retail w/o the stand).

It's a great group of folks, plus you'll get lots of free frags

-R

[dileggi]

Originally posted by ir0n_ma1den
do you have a journal i can see?

the bio cube seems pretty good, and its pretty big too. But, i'd still have to buy an RO/DI unit and other stuff which would total to about ~$400.

I do have one pic, that's it and it's before a lot of the things were added. I can't upload it because of the file size. If you want to PM me with an email address, I can surely forward the pic that way so you can see it. Again, I went with the BC29, but there are smaller models...a 14g and an 8g as well.

As for the RO/DI, I purchased a fairly cheap version of that, but not because of price. The one I purchased, I believe was $39 or something like that from that pet place. It's basically a plug and play version, which is what I wanted. I did not want to have to try and hook something up myself...there's a reason why I have a desk job I'm sure I'll go through the filters faster than I would on the other units, but since I only have a 29g, I only change 5g at a time, so it's really no big deal right now.

[Swanwillow]

my first tank was done CHEAP, and SMALL.

ten gallon aquarium-~20 at walmart
salt-~40 at the pet store
LR~$100 at pet store
Mantis shrimp~gas
Blue devil damsel~10
water changes once/week
maxi-jet power head~20
HOB filter for carbon~25

thats it.

Oh, snails~1 a peice, I fed them out often.
food for the mantis~$4.00
then you can get into lights, that gets more expensive, but you can keep softies in a ten gallon mantis tank easily.