Glad I found this place! My name is Dave and I'm up in Maine...planning on starting my first reef tank in the coming months.
I had originally planned on starting with an Aqueon 40B I got from a Petco sale...was preparing to drill it for a sump overflow but the LFS told me it would most likely be tempered glass, which would shatter if I tried to drill it. YouTube has all kinds of people showing how to drill 40B tanks so I was a bit confused, but I returned the 40B and they found reef ready 65 gallon on sale I could order. It's pre-drilled on the bottom, which seems like it would be better than drilling the back.
My logic is I don't want to go too terribly big for a first tank, though I often read that people tend to end up wanting bigger. They said the 65 will be the same footprint as a 40B but taller...the neighbor offered to help me build a stand which will be very helpful, just need to make sure the opening is big enough to put in an appropriate sized sump with a refugium.
There are endless discussions on tank size out there...please let me know if there's anything I'm missing with this as a starting point. Good to be aboard!
Thanks
Dave
I had originally planned on starting with an Aqueon 40B I got from a Petco sale...was preparing to drill it for a sump overflow but the LFS told me it would most likely be tempered glass, which would shatter if I tried to drill it. YouTube has all kinds of people showing how to drill 40B tanks so I was a bit confused, but I returned the 40B and they found reef ready 65 gallon on sale I could order. It's pre-drilled on the bottom, which seems like it would be better than drilling the back.
My logic is I don't want to go too terribly big for a first tank, though I often read that people tend to end up wanting bigger. They said the 65 will be the same footprint as a 40B but taller...the neighbor offered to help me build a stand which will be very helpful, just need to make sure the opening is big enough to put in an appropriate sized sump with a refugium.
There are endless discussions on tank size out there...please let me know if there's anything I'm missing with this as a starting point. Good to be aboard!
Thanks
Dave