ElectricBlueSeanBurch
New Member
Hello Reefer's!
I've been in the hobby for 15+ years. I've had a few small saltwater tanks. Nothing over 55g. I've had 200+g freshwater tanks for the past 6 years. It started with a used 220g (6x2x30") from Craigslist. This ended when it exploded in my living room. I was devastated. My amazing wife surprised me with a 225g Deep Sea Aquatics tank, stand and canopy for christmas 2 years ago. I have had it running freshwater since. My excuse was always, "i'll go saltwater when we buy a house." Well we bought a house...
Sump is currently a standard 75g. No baffles. 3 socks, 2 laguna 2000 pumps, 2 heaters. I would rather buy a premade sump and sell the other. I'm pretty diy, but a sump is not my idea of fun.
I want to make this as low maintenance as possible. I'm going to start fowlr using led(current sat+) lighting. I will eventually go reef one day, but this is a few years away. I want pretty heavy stocking with a peaceful community. Tank is 6x27x27 with 3x1" drains and 2x3/4" returns.
So question time.
1) what sump should I get. I will be using the 3 drains as almost a herbie setup. Most of the water draining down 2 returns with a trickle down the 3rd.
2) Where should I order rock and what type of rock. I want to start with dry rock I believe
3) What sand should I get? And where should I order it from?
4) what skimmer would you get? I want overkill. Something that will easily the fowlr and the reef later on.
5) I want to get Kessel led eventually, would this work with my tank? And if so how many?
More questions to follow im sure...
I have a whole build thread on MFK for my tank, so I didn't want to post all that again. But my username is the same on there as well if anyone wanted to check out the tank.
This is what it used to be
I've been in the hobby for 15+ years. I've had a few small saltwater tanks. Nothing over 55g. I've had 200+g freshwater tanks for the past 6 years. It started with a used 220g (6x2x30") from Craigslist. This ended when it exploded in my living room. I was devastated. My amazing wife surprised me with a 225g Deep Sea Aquatics tank, stand and canopy for christmas 2 years ago. I have had it running freshwater since. My excuse was always, "i'll go saltwater when we buy a house." Well we bought a house...
Sump is currently a standard 75g. No baffles. 3 socks, 2 laguna 2000 pumps, 2 heaters. I would rather buy a premade sump and sell the other. I'm pretty diy, but a sump is not my idea of fun.
I want to make this as low maintenance as possible. I'm going to start fowlr using led(current sat+) lighting. I will eventually go reef one day, but this is a few years away. I want pretty heavy stocking with a peaceful community. Tank is 6x27x27 with 3x1" drains and 2x3/4" returns.
So question time.
1) what sump should I get. I will be using the 3 drains as almost a herbie setup. Most of the water draining down 2 returns with a trickle down the 3rd.
2) Where should I order rock and what type of rock. I want to start with dry rock I believe
3) What sand should I get? And where should I order it from?
4) what skimmer would you get? I want overkill. Something that will easily the fowlr and the reef later on.
5) I want to get Kessel led eventually, would this work with my tank? And if so how many?
More questions to follow im sure...
I have a whole build thread on MFK for my tank, so I didn't want to post all that again. But my username is the same on there as well if anyone wanted to check out the tank.
This is what it used to be
