Introduction:
Hello everyone,
I had a 55 gallon mixed reef tank a while back but because of life circumstances I shut down the tank and donated the inhabitants to the fish store with much regret. It's been a while since I dabbled with saltwater aquariums. Anyway to the point, I bought a used 180-gallon aquarium that I'll be picking on the weekend. I organized everything below and included a picture of the tank, thank you for taking the time to help everyone.
Equipment
Old Equipment:
Desired Fish List:
What I need help with at the moment?
Hello everyone,
I had a 55 gallon mixed reef tank a while back but because of life circumstances I shut down the tank and donated the inhabitants to the fish store with much regret. It's been a while since I dabbled with saltwater aquariums. Anyway to the point, I bought a used 180-gallon aquarium that I'll be picking on the weekend. I organized everything below and included a picture of the tank, thank you for taking the time to help everyone.
Equipment
Old Equipment:
- Eheim 900 GPH (type 1262310)
- Neptune system controller with temperature probe, ph probe and auto top off.
- Spectrepure 4 stage RO/DI unit
- Aqua illumination Blue Led Sol x2
- 40-watt Aqua Ultraviolet UV Sterilizer
- Trigger Systems Crystal Sump 36S - 36 inch
- Eshopps PF-1200 Hang on Overflow Box
- Coral Vue Technology AC20287 Octopus Needle Wheel Skimmer
- Jebao OW-25 Wavemaker x2
Desired Fish List:
- Yellow Tang
- Blue Tang
- Kole Yellow Eye Tang
- Magnificent Foxface
- Naoke Wrasse and Ornate Leopard Wrasse (or Six-line Wrasse I want a parasite eater)
- Princess Anthias x4 or x5
- Clown Fish x2
- Shrimp Goby
- Midas Blenny
- Lawnmower blenny
- Potter's Angelfish or Coral Beauty Angelfish
- Cleaner Shrimp x2
- Blood Red Fire Shrimp x2
- Sexy Shrimp x2
- Hermit Crabs
- Astraea Turbo Snails
- Orange Sponge
- Maxima Clam (ultra grade)
- Crocea clam
- Derasa Clam
What I need help with at the moment?
- Deciding what to put in my sumps refugium (things other than equipment such as Bio-blocks and Cyclopoida's)
- Deciding the type and amount of substrate to get
- Deciding what brand of salt to use
- Deciding what heater to buy
- Deciding what lights to buy (while taking into account that I still want to use my current LED's)
- Deciding how much dry rock I should buy.
- Need to know whether I should use FritzZyme TurboStart to cycle the aquarium quickly
- Need to know if my pump can handle the overflow (not sure if this is an issue, but it seems like it could be)
- Need to determine whether my desired fish are compatible
- Need to decide what order to buy the Fish (to prevent aggression issues and to account for hardiness)
- Need to know whether I need to change the filters and membrane on my RO/DI unit (I used it for a year). If I need to change them can I buy any 4 stage filtration replacement kit or does it have to be the same brand?
- Need to know how many hermit crabs and turbo snails I'll need.
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