Tank Set-up?

fishfood

fishfood

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I'm about to get a 125 gal tank. I am wanting to know how every one goes about tank set-up for an aggressive folr system. I have a fuge on my reef and was wondering if it is important on a fo tank. I intend to put in about a 4 inch sand bed with 75lbs of dry base rock and maybe another 50 lbs of lr. I have an overflow which will either be connected to a wet/dry sump or sump/fuge. I will also put in some type of skimmer I guess. I'm not really running a good one on my reef but figure it would be helpful in this situation. Can someone suggest how I go about planning this setup? I'm also going to go with VHO lighting.
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grouperhead

grouperhead

Active Member
On an aggressive setup, you really can't have enough filtration, IMO. If you have the room and funds to run a fuge, by all means, do it. Is this going to be an aggressive tank, or just a community fowlr? Bo
 
terminus est

terminus est

Member
Especially if you plan on a tusk, make a fuge to help filtrate and have macro in the fuge to suck up the nutrients from the main tank and keep nuisance algae down since there wont be a clean up crew. Fuges are almost always a good idea.
 
fishfood

fishfood

Member
So if i drop the tusk what is something more invert friendly that i could put in there? I don't need them but I was just curious because i know how it is to rely on them in my reef tank to polish it up.
 
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irenicus

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Get a tusk. They are extrodinary fish and your won't regret it. I have on with inverts and he doesn't pick any off, now this is the exception, not the rule, those big teeth are made for crunching. I try to keep mine well fed. A have seen niger triggers get hermit happy a few times so be aware of that.
 
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