SupaDoopa
New Member
Hello forum! My name is Jay and I am out of the Providence/Boston area of New England. I'm new to salt water tanks but used to keep fresh water for some time. With a recent move, my wife and I decided to add new color to our place so we landed on switching from fresh to salt water. Now, I've been reading for what seems like eternity but I know I'll have a slew of questions as time goes by that I haven't asked in the other part of the forum dedicated for stuff like that. But, essentially, I'm in the planning game of it right now. I think a 75G + sump/refugium will be a good size for us to begin with. We also want to do a FOWLR but eventually go coral. My goal is have the tank coral-ready in the sense that if I wanted to drop the coral in in a few months [willing the water perimeters and such were good obviously], I'd have all the proper equipment [minus a few added reactors] already installed and working on my current setup with some added tweaks.
Now, I'm new to plumbing as my fresh tank had rear hang-ons. I'm looking at some equipment and below is a list of stuff I think I'm going to go with. If you had bad experience or think I should change something, please let me know.
In/on tank:
-I want to go LED, just deciding between brands. The ECOTECH Radions caught my eye
-Live rock
-Live sand for substrate [undecided on the type as of yet]
-2x VorTech MP40's [is that enough flow for a 75 gallon in a typical layout?]
Under tank:
-NEPTUNE Apex
-Dual deluxe BRS carbon/GFO reactors
-Miracle Mud for the refugium
[No idea what brand/style/size sump+refugium to go with, though]
I know I'm missing a LOT more. This is basically where I ask for suggestions maybe if I need more pumps, different controllers, what are good modules to have, etc. I appreciate all of you helping me out in advance!
Now, I'm new to plumbing as my fresh tank had rear hang-ons. I'm looking at some equipment and below is a list of stuff I think I'm going to go with. If you had bad experience or think I should change something, please let me know.
In/on tank:
-I want to go LED, just deciding between brands. The ECOTECH Radions caught my eye
-Live rock
-Live sand for substrate [undecided on the type as of yet]
-2x VorTech MP40's [is that enough flow for a 75 gallon in a typical layout?]
Under tank:
-NEPTUNE Apex
-Dual deluxe BRS carbon/GFO reactors
-Miracle Mud for the refugium
[No idea what brand/style/size sump+refugium to go with, though]
I know I'm missing a LOT more. This is basically where I ask for suggestions maybe if I need more pumps, different controllers, what are good modules to have, etc. I appreciate all of you helping me out in advance!
