Need some advice.

[bobble28]

Ok so I'm planning an upgrade over the next few month's and need some advice. I'm having a display tank and sump built locally display is 72"x13"x13" dual corner overflows all acrylic the sump is 45 1/2"x12 1/2"x13" acrylic also. Tank comes out to about 50g and sump about 30g. Will be doing bare bottom. This is my list of equipment I plan to use (already have from previous tanks/trades etc.) let me know what you guys think.

2x 1600gph power heads (plan to switch to 3 wp10 eventually since the physical size of my 1600s are pretty big.)
300w heater
tsunami ato
aqua lifter for the ato
reef octopus nwb150
rio2100 return pump
rkl
50-60lbs rock in the dt (give or take after aquascape)
another 20lbs or so in the sump

 

[reefwiser]

I would add a Ranco heater controller with the one 300 watt heater this is insurance in case the heater sticks on and cooks the tank.13" deep your tank will be? That a shallow tank I like the 18"depth my self.

 

[bobble28]

I would add a Ranco heater controller with the one 300 watt heater this is insurance in case the heater sticks on and cooks the tank.13" deep your tank will be? That a shallow tank I like the 18"depth my self.

I have a finnex heater controller also but was planning on using the reefkeeper to control the heater. Yes 13" deep I'm a shoter guy :bigsmile: I had a 90g that I couldnt reach the bottom without a step stool and dang near face in the water so I'm going shallow and long with a little taller stand to be able to reach the bottom without issues. Im mainly concerned with my return pump, after plumbing and fittings (guesstamating right now) looks like the rio2100 is roughly 450gph just over 8x turnover