Supply list
Tanks
- Main aquarium (required)
- Quarantine tank (highly recommended)
- Stand (recommended)
Gadgets
- Outlet hub (recommended)
- Hood/cover (recommended)
- Lighting (recommended)
- Aeration (recommended)
- Filter (highly recommended)
- Filter media
- Sponges or biological media (highly recommended)
- Carbon (depends on inhabitants)
- Zeolite (depends on inhabitants)
- Seachem purigen (recommended)
- Filter cap (highly recommended)
- Mesh bags (recommended)
- Heater (depends on inhabitants)
- Chiller (depends on inhabitants)
- UV sterilizer (depends on inhabitants)
- Protein skimmer (depends on inhabitants)
- Automatic feeder (depends on your schedule)
- Reverse osmosis maker (depends on budget)
- Mineral mix (highly recommended if using R/O Water)
- Wave maker (usually for saltwater, depends on inhabitants)
- Powerhead (depends on inhabitants)
Decorations
- Substrate (recommended)
- Artificial decorations (depends on inhabitants)
- Driftwood (depends on inhabitants)
- Rocks (depends on inhabitants)
Feed
- Pellets (recommended)
- Wafers (recommended)
- Flakes (discouraged)
- Live (discouraged)
- Frozen (depends on inhabitants)
- Cultures (depends on inhabitants)
- Gel (depends on inhabitants)
- Vegetables (usually recommend, depends on inhabitants)
- Block feeder (discouraged)
- Sheet (depends on inhabitants)
- Algae clip (recommended for sheet)
Inhabitants
- Plants (recommended)
- Fertilizer (recommended for some plants)
- Animals (recommended)
- Live rock (saltwater only, recommended)
Maintenance
- Water siphon (recommended)
- Buckets/bins (recommended)
- Nets (recommended)
- Acclimation Kit (highly recommended)
- Towels (recommended)
- Aquarium gloves (recommended)
- Tongs (recommended)
- Algae scraper/magnet (recommended)
- Parameter testing (liquid test kit highly recommended)
Chemicals
- Dechlorinator (required)
- Algae Removal (discouraged)
- Medicine (depends on inhabitants)
- Parameter Changers (discouraged)
- Toxin removal (depends on inhabitants)
- Snail killer (highly discouraged)
- Cycle bacteria (discouraged)
- Aquarium salt (recommended, keep on hand)
- Salt mix (saltwater only)
- Supplements/additives (depends on inhabitants)
Miscellaneous
- Thermometer (recommended)
- Breeder net (depends on inhabitants)
- Refractometer/hydrometer (highly recommended for saltwater)