Alzado

Anybody have any experience with the Marineland Instant Ocean 29G or 55G aquarium kits?

http://www.saltwatereddies.com/conte...55_gallon.html

http://www.fish.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=...:referralID=NA

I want to try my first SW aquarium setup (FOWLR with some mushroom coral) and this instant ocean kit seems like a good and cost effective place to start. I plan on getting some powerheads and a protein skimmer. anything else?

i'd like to have 1 clown fish, 1 tang, 1 butterfly, and maybe some gobies as well as a hermit crab or two and some cleaner shrimp. 29G probably too small for this amount of livestock?

Thanks!

agsansoo

I thoughts on Marineland sw kits are just OK. They sell good products, but these are generally freshwater systems re-labeled as saltwater. If you ever get a protein skimmer, you will have to remove part or all of the hood. What I would do is price a plain tank, good cured live rock, a few powerheads, some dead sand and a PC fluorescent light fixture.

Alzado

ok, seems like a good deal, but I don't want spend the money if i'm just going to have to replace some major components later.


nobody else has used these?