180 GALLON SALTWATER (FOWLR) START UP

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
mos90;4637289; said:
fleshy has too much time on his hands...):
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Everyday I wake up, and I have less and less time. Every single day, I wake up, and Im one foot deeper into the swamp that is the aquaria industry. I hope that I give some good advice on here, and I hope to learn from you guys as well. The experience is fun, and we all take and give. Granted....I do spend a decent amount of time on here. :D

Gprime;4638358; said:
IMO I would return the canister and hob protein skimmer. Doing a sump with in sump skimmer is your best route, especially if you want to go with more aggressive or even predatory fish. NOT saying you can't do a hob skimmer and canister but its just alot more maintenance. Doing a sump allows you to have all your equipment in that one area minus lights/power heads. You can also incorporate a refugium and/or algae scrubber.
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Good advice, but...

ace869;4638473; said:
this tank is not drilled nor does it have an overflow box and my LFS recommended this way
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Your LFS is strange. There really is no down side to making your filtration larger, more easily accessible/easily cleaned, adding more water volume to your system, a place for biological and algae filtration, and means of hiding heaters and skimmers.

But since you have decided you arent going to go this route, we will roll with what you have going. I am going to recommend a high quality, oversized skimmer...AquaC is my favorite brand.

ace869;4642558; said:
Still no Decision on Lighting for this tank if I start out as a Fowlr tank and I buy a ho mh light will it make the tank harder to maintain?
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Buying HO or MH?

Neither should make the tank harder to maintain...I have already told you what I would do on your tank if I was possibly looking to do corals in the future.
 
filtrtion use a sump. I prefer octopus skimmers sand and live rock depend on your choices and fish depends on what you want in it
 
Here is a picture of the tank there are more in my album just posted tonight
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ace869;4871398; said:
Here is a picture of the tank there are more in my album just posted tonight
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I would stack the rock away from all sides of the tank. Stack it the length of the tank, but in the middle. That way water can flow all around the rock and there won't be dead spots behind the rock like there currently. In a 24" wide tank you should have no problems doing so. Just make sure that you wiggle the rocks into place so that you know they are secure. Otherwise you can zip tie them together and algae will grow over and disguise the zip ties over time.
 
A 180 is the tank I really need at the bare minimum to keep my angel for life...I would never get a 125g again, unless it was free, like this one is.

I aggree with Dustin on this one, you want to put as much space around your rock as possible.
 
I wouldnt because it creates dead spots. I would also attempt to get a little more ''open'' look to it, with lots of swim throughs for fish, and organizing your rock this way will also allow lots of flow to pass through it as well.
 
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