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homer1475 · 09/21/2017, 05:10 PM

Lets start with test kits...

While your cycling, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. API will work for these as they are cheap and 2 you'll probably never use again.

Once you add livestock, ammonia, alkalinity. My personal preference is salifert.

Once you add corals, nitrate, phosphate(both of these should be tested frequently even with just FOWLR), calcium, and magnesium.

Miscellaneous things you will probably want to get, long tweezers, a couple 5 gallon buckets, bucket head shop vac(invaluable cheap piece of equipment), python gravel cleaner, etc. The list goes on and on. Some things I've bought and only used once, but at the time I needed it.

09/21/2017, 05:10 PM	#4
homer1475 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 5,313	Lets start with test kits... While your cycling, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. API will work for these as they are cheap and 2 you'll probably never use again. Once you add livestock, ammonia, alkalinity. My personal preference is salifert. Once you add corals, nitrate, phosphate(both of these should be tested frequently even with just FOWLR), calcium, and magnesium. Miscellaneous things you will probably want to get, long tweezers, a couple 5 gallon buckets, bucket head shop vac(invaluable cheap piece of equipment), python gravel cleaner, etc. The list goes on and on. Some things I've bought and only used once, but at the time I needed it. __________________ 80G SCA Build: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2560256 Originally posted by der_wille_zur_macht: "He's just taking his lunch to work"