Rll89135
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hi everyone!
I have had a Juwel Trigon 190l for about a year and a half, slowly investing into different bits and pieces to convert the tank to marine. I have done quite a bit of research into my options but was just looking to see what more experienced people would do on their first set up.
I have the standard Juwel protein skimmer. I have purchased airlines, an air pump, air stones and an air curtain, which I will probably decide to either use or store when I get the tank running and I can see the water flow rates. Alongside this I have bought a seneye to monitor the water quality (although as a reef ecosystem I was aiming to use this as an alarm in case something dropped past its parameter).
I still need to read up a bit on corals! I have a book but need to read it properly!! I intend to have a DSB with live worms and maybe some reef safe crabs or shrimp. I would then after about 6 months look to add a couple of marine fish on which I'm a little undecided.
My main problem at the moment is the creation and fitting of a sump under my tank for copepods and also further filtration. I was thinking of having a shellfish in here too for filtration. Does anyone have any sump designs for a Trigon 190l they don't mind sharing? And my second problem being the need for a quarantine tank. What would the recommended size be and this would need to be fully setup as a reef tank at all times wouldn't it? Just wondering if I could have a sump in the left side of cabinet and quarantine in the right perhaps?
Also as a side note would there be any benefit to creating my own RO as opposed to using local aquarium RO, and is there any benefit to reactors being fitted on this setup? Sorry for the million questions!
Thanks for your help!
Richard
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I have had a Juwel Trigon 190l for about a year and a half, slowly investing into different bits and pieces to convert the tank to marine. I have done quite a bit of research into my options but was just looking to see what more experienced people would do on their first set up.
I have the standard Juwel protein skimmer. I have purchased airlines, an air pump, air stones and an air curtain, which I will probably decide to either use or store when I get the tank running and I can see the water flow rates. Alongside this I have bought a seneye to monitor the water quality (although as a reef ecosystem I was aiming to use this as an alarm in case something dropped past its parameter).
I still need to read up a bit on corals! I have a book but need to read it properly!! I intend to have a DSB with live worms and maybe some reef safe crabs or shrimp. I would then after about 6 months look to add a couple of marine fish on which I'm a little undecided.
My main problem at the moment is the creation and fitting of a sump under my tank for copepods and also further filtration. I was thinking of having a shellfish in here too for filtration. Does anyone have any sump designs for a Trigon 190l they don't mind sharing? And my second problem being the need for a quarantine tank. What would the recommended size be and this would need to be fully setup as a reef tank at all times wouldn't it? Just wondering if I could have a sump in the left side of cabinet and quarantine in the right perhaps?
Also as a side note would there be any benefit to creating my own RO as opposed to using local aquarium RO, and is there any benefit to reactors being fitted on this setup? Sorry for the million questions!
Thanks for your help!
Richard
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