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from what I've seen (comparing my ok salt water tank to my brothers bigger better fresh water) salt water tanks are quite a bit more money than fresh water so I would ether try to plan ahead and save up for each item or go diy as much as you can. I don't think your going to be able to make a...

just a few more days and I'll have the $ to get started.

I'm starting to think that one 23w CF will not be quite enough, but there is only one way to know for sure. I like the trash can idea a lot because I'm all about saving time and money, but I don't think I'm going to go that way for 3 reasons. 1. I've done enough of the "funky look" for my fish...

I was hoping that I could get away with one light because it's in the middle, but it will be easy to come back and put a second light in if one is not enough.

I think I can make the size just right for the space I need it's the distance to the light and heat I'm wondering about. I don't want to have to put a fan in to keep the plexi cool. I've got 90g I'm going to be running something like 9x10in screens.

If I really like it and want more light power I might end up building a different one with leds on the out side and one screen in the middle, so that I can keep my watts down. Space is a issue for me so I'm going to look for the longer loop style instead of the curly ones. At this point I'm...

I like the mirror idea. So I'm looking for something a little more red with the light? I just was going to use the coralife because I already have one lying around. ya, hanging the light from the top would be the simplest way to get the most even light.

I'm thinking about making it have the light in the middle and 1 screen on each side. I would like to keep the watts as low as I can seeing as it runs 18hrs a day. Think a caralife 50/50 20w would work? I know it's a little low on the wattage, but I was hoping that doing the light in the middle...

It's like a 4hr drive. One of these summers I'm going to take a surf/tank tour of socal. There are a lot of great coral farms down there I want to check out, but travel is sorta hard for us dialysis patients.

it will, but you can make it even better than the auto white balance, witch is pretty good on it's own.

I have a great cannon video cam with great stills, but I'm still jealous . Your going to be very happy with your new cam, check out how good of colors you get when you set your custom white balance to your lights .

I decided the turf scrubber is not going in the sump, but will be on it's own. I now understand a little more about how to set up the flow control into the fuge with a ball valve while the remaining flow gos into the return section, just not exactly how to do it in the space I have while being...

thanks Jstdv8

AI&Burke sent me a great link, but as far as I know we are not allowed to post links? so if your inerested in making your own pm me and I will share the link with you. Thanks for the info AI&Burke.

From what I read I was planning on going for a little more than 1 square inch per gallon. I have about 80gal and was planning on trying a 9in wide by 10in tall.

not a light expert, but I have a current 96w t5 light that I ran on a 30 and it keep a clam just fine. I'm thinking if your ran 310w of t5 on it you would be blasting.

I'm still working on my grasp of how things work with all this, but I suggest you look into the difference between mechanical and biological filtration. If I could sum it up for the most part (not really an easy thing to do in my opinion and I'm sure some one else can to a lot better) I would...

I'm thinking about building a turf scrubber and was wondering if anyone had any screens to recommend, what size holes should be in it? Anything you would tell me/suggest?

After reading more I'm now considering putting in a turf scrubber and sticking with my protein skimmers. I like to feed a lot and would like to keep as much food in my tank as I can, so I'm thinking to go with more biological and less mechanical filtration.

cannon all the way!