thanks everybody! That's really helpful.
The tank is made for fish and water, not herps. I got it because it was teh cheapest one that i could find, all the ones that said "reptile" on it automatically added on about an extra 20$. lol.
I'll go ahead and run the water for about a week. Where i'm at is very close to where the put chemical stuff in the water, so i always have sulfur water (ick..it makes drinking water really expensive [bottled] after a while).

And thanks for the suggestions on fish. I'm going to go to my pet shop and check some stuff out. Its a great shop though, it is what i refer to as the herp. shop, but it is really just an exotics store, they have snakes, other herps, rats, ferrits, chinchillas (SP?), fish, and some great spiders.


I'll keep everybody posted.