illuminum
Aquarium Advice Freak
Okay, well after about a year of asking questions, online research, and extensive reading I've decided to actually start purchasing the components of my reef. Now I was hoping you could give me some advice as far as what brands I should be looking at when it comes to all the components.
So here's what I have at the moment:
Tank & Cabinet: Custom made cabinet w/ a drilled 120 gallon glass tank. Still working out the dimensions. I'm debating between whether to go long or go deep.
Hopefully the cabinet design will resemble this: Photo #1 Photo #2
Lights: I want to be able to go to stony corals in the future. I would love to have some clams so I'm going to go with two 250W 14,000K Metal Halide's (double ended) and probably one of those night lights (is it worth it?). What brand shoud I go with here?
Skimmer: I think a G-3 skimmer is the right way to go
Pumps: I'd like to get two smaller pumps instead of one larger pump for the sake of keeping things quiet underneath the tank. I'm currently looking at two "quiet one" 4000 pumps @ 1017gph each
Sump: probably 45-50 gallons
Poweheads: I'm thinking of getting a Tunze 6100 w/ controller
Heaters: 2 200 watt heaters, titanium heaters
RO/DI Unit: Probably just one of the $100 units that are all over ebay
LR/LS:
I realize there's alot of stuff that I'm asking you, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm hesitant to solely rely on the advice of my LFS's when it comes to major purchases like this.
Thanks alot
-Greg
So here's what I have at the moment:
Tank & Cabinet: Custom made cabinet w/ a drilled 120 gallon glass tank. Still working out the dimensions. I'm debating between whether to go long or go deep.
Hopefully the cabinet design will resemble this: Photo #1 Photo #2
Lights: I want to be able to go to stony corals in the future. I would love to have some clams so I'm going to go with two 250W 14,000K Metal Halide's (double ended) and probably one of those night lights (is it worth it?). What brand shoud I go with here?
Skimmer: I think a G-3 skimmer is the right way to go
Pumps: I'd like to get two smaller pumps instead of one larger pump for the sake of keeping things quiet underneath the tank. I'm currently looking at two "quiet one" 4000 pumps @ 1017gph each
Sump: probably 45-50 gallons
Poweheads: I'm thinking of getting a Tunze 6100 w/ controller
Heaters: 2 200 watt heaters, titanium heaters
RO/DI Unit: Probably just one of the $100 units that are all over ebay
LR/LS:
I realize there's alot of stuff that I'm asking you, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm hesitant to solely rely on the advice of my LFS's when it comes to major purchases like this.
Thanks alot
-Greg