zeromus-x
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A few years back, I had a 36g bow front set up in my living room. When I moved, I tore the whole thing down, moved the fish and live rock to a 75g at work, and never got around to setting it back up. I've decided recently to get it back up and running. Except this time, I'd like to do it "right". Last time was very much a budget-oriented setup, buying things as needed and learning my lessons. This time I just want to do it right from the start.
I currently have nothing but about 90 pounds of live rock and a 4" sand bed that most likely needs to just get trashed and start over, since it's been dry for probably three and a half years now and ... Well, looks pretty nasty.
My goal for the project is to gets something that will work with corals and fish, though I'm most concerned with setting up as a FOWLR to begin with. Since it's not a big tank, I'd like to minimize the amount of space being taken up with other objects (power heads, protein skimmers, etc). However, the location of the tank prevents any hang on back units. Also, the tank is not drilled. I have lots of room under the stand, and ideally something like a canister filter that pulls water from the tank and pumps it back up would be great. Even better would be a 10g under the stand with some way to pump the water in and out.
One thing I want to avoid is having to syphon-start water from the top tank into the bottom one. I will not be here often (though other people will be here all the time) and therefore I really need something that manages itself as far as water flow and filtering are concerned.
Any recommendations based on this? I've been out of it so long I have to assume there's lots of new great stuff out there. If LED lighting fixtures have matured to the point of being cost effective at this point, that'd be great, but I am thinking that may not be the case.
Anyway, thanks for your time and help!
I currently have nothing but about 90 pounds of live rock and a 4" sand bed that most likely needs to just get trashed and start over, since it's been dry for probably three and a half years now and ... Well, looks pretty nasty.
My goal for the project is to gets something that will work with corals and fish, though I'm most concerned with setting up as a FOWLR to begin with. Since it's not a big tank, I'd like to minimize the amount of space being taken up with other objects (power heads, protein skimmers, etc). However, the location of the tank prevents any hang on back units. Also, the tank is not drilled. I have lots of room under the stand, and ideally something like a canister filter that pulls water from the tank and pumps it back up would be great. Even better would be a 10g under the stand with some way to pump the water in and out.
One thing I want to avoid is having to syphon-start water from the top tank into the bottom one. I will not be here often (though other people will be here all the time) and therefore I really need something that manages itself as far as water flow and filtering are concerned.
Any recommendations based on this? I've been out of it so long I have to assume there's lots of new great stuff out there. If LED lighting fixtures have matured to the point of being cost effective at this point, that'd be great, but I am thinking that may not be the case.
Anyway, thanks for your time and help!