Heera
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What's is the benefit of laying down egg crate under the sand??
mr_X said:No, you don't want that. The koralias are only good with their proprietary wave controller as far as I have heard. You don't need a wavemaker anyway. I would use 2 x 1400gph Koralias and call it a day. Those 750s will seem weak.
mr_X said:Koralias have a broad stream. They are not like maxijets or similar and throw water in a straight line. 2 of them pointed at each other and the currents from each bouncing off of each other will create plenty of random turbulence.
You might even need more than the 2 x 1400's, so I wouldn't sell all of the 620 gph ones just yet.
Did you already purchase the lighting? I would suggest the LED panels I am using over my current tank instead of the halides and power compacts. Much cheaper to run and no yearly bulb expense.
Check out my build thread (Doug's 250....now 300, in-wall build).
As for a clean up crew, just add some snails and such sparingly. Whatever you add will need food supplied for it, and in many cases, new tanks are void of food. Odds are more than not people are starving large amounts of snails and crabs and such.
Nothing cleans like a good algae scraper and a water change.