- Location
- poughquag, ny
ok i know i have have said it before more then once so i wont say this is the last tank. this will be hopefully set-up at end of august or some time in sept, really taking my time for once, i recently aquired a 36x24x22 acrylic tank, stand canopy and sump, got to measure sump but i do believe it is 30x16x16, currently i am in process of sanding stand and canopy down and plan to refinish it, been slowly sanding and buffing scratch's out of tank, and really thinking of what i plan to do, here is my list of equipt, still really up in the air on lights
for return i will be using a gen x pc 40 that will drive return, chiller, cal reactor and phos reactor, as normal my return rate will only be 300-400 gph, gives skimmer more time to filter water, plan to use miricle mud in fuge and get 20-30 mangroves, ive had a few mangroves for yr's not enough to really effectively work, will also have some chaeto in fuge as well. flow will be 2 vortech mp20's. for lighting i really am looking at using 2 4 bulb icecap retro t5's for a total of 8 bulbs, the shimmer has never been a selling factor for me on mh, plus i like the choice of running several different colored bulbs. basically will be taking everything from my 60g cube and putting in this minus maybe a few fish, so it will be sps dominated. plan is to maybe break cube down and have someone hold my corals for a few weeks while new tank is moved in and set up and tweaked, knock on wood i havent ever lost anything in tank switch overs yet, { fingers crossed } but really preffer to have a little time for everything to settle, we will see though. will try to get pic's tommorrow, as this will be a journal in the build, and a ty to albano for helping me get this tank
for return i will be using a gen x pc 40 that will drive return, chiller, cal reactor and phos reactor, as normal my return rate will only be 300-400 gph, gives skimmer more time to filter water, plan to use miricle mud in fuge and get 20-30 mangroves, ive had a few mangroves for yr's not enough to really effectively work, will also have some chaeto in fuge as well. flow will be 2 vortech mp20's. for lighting i really am looking at using 2 4 bulb icecap retro t5's for a total of 8 bulbs, the shimmer has never been a selling factor for me on mh, plus i like the choice of running several different colored bulbs. basically will be taking everything from my 60g cube and putting in this minus maybe a few fish, so it will be sps dominated. plan is to maybe break cube down and have someone hold my corals for a few weeks while new tank is moved in and set up and tweaked, knock on wood i havent ever lost anything in tank switch overs yet, { fingers crossed } but really preffer to have a little time for everything to settle, we will see though. will try to get pic's tommorrow, as this will be a journal in the build, and a ty to albano for helping me get this tank
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