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After a almost 10 year abstanice I must have fallen and bumped my head. I ordered a 24 x 24 x 24 cube. After that i ordered a Reef Life Support Systems R6-i Protein Skimmer. Called and got the price on a sheet of 1/4 in Acrylic to build my sump. Have a Kessil A350 for lighting. So I guess i will need some frags soon lol.
 
welcome to the forum and back to the hobby :) I'm sure you've been accumulating a lot of money since you left lol
 
Have a few questions if any one can help. I have done some reading/search and the more I read the more it seems I become confused/conflicting info I find. I have tank set up now and live rock curing. But before I Aquascape it i can not make up my mind on sand, no sand, if I use sand, fine power or more corse?
 
I would do your aquascape and then pour the sand/substrate around the rocks after you have it how you like, or if you decide to even use substrate. I would recommend the special grade substrate as it's not fine enough to blow around everywhere yet is small enough for sand sifters to sift through.

I personally like a nice, white, open bottom of the tank. My diamond goby keeps it super clean in a 120 gallon!
 
Thank you for the advice, I was going to go bare bottom at first but some one pointed out you get a lot of reflection off of white sand so i'm still not sure.
 
Fwiw. I setup my first bb tank this week. Love the results... of if u want the white sand look, get star board.
 
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Tank set up ready for water.
 

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