xxBarneyxx
Fish Aficionado
Well after much moaning at my housemates about them not letting me set up my marine tank anywhere except under the stairs they have finally given in and let me set it up in the dinning room (provided I buy new carpet and redecorate it first).
This is great news as it means that I dont have to sit in a hallway to look at he tank, I have more room for it (bigger tank, woohoo) and building the stand and general maintaince on the tnak is going to be a lot easier.
Anyway. I had planned to get an aquamedic 120 for the original location because it was just the right size and was easy to get hold of locally. Now though I can got for a 5-6ftX2ftX2ft tank so the questions are:
Where is the best place in the UK to buy a reef ready tank of this size?
What price should I be looking at? One site I looked at had a 5ftX2ftX2ft tank for around £400 which seemed too cheap?
Now I need to get all the kit seperatly again I need to start looking at Powerheads, skimmers and lights. So:
Skimmers: I'm thinking a V2 800 or V2 1000 Skimmer. From what I have read these are good ones to go for. Both are over rated for a 150g tank
UV steriliser: V2 400 or V2 600
lighting: I plan on going to a full reef tank in the near future. Currently have an arcadia luminarie which is only 4ft long but had X4 54w T5's in. How much more light do you think a tank of this size would need to be able to grow LPS and SPS corals?
Water Flow: I'm thinking to start with X4 koralia 4's and possible a couple smaller ones + a wave controller.
Sump: I'm stealing the idea from someone on these forums and going to get a 20g ish koi tub. Will need to work out what size pump I need after I have the tank I think.
Heater: The house is pretty warm so I think maybe two 150w heaters in the sump should do the trick.
Would like to hear of any improvments, or changes to be made to the above. I have given this a budget of £2k in total (not including livestock) which I think should be doable.
Next thing to think about is fish and corals but will leave that for another post
This is great news as it means that I dont have to sit in a hallway to look at he tank, I have more room for it (bigger tank, woohoo) and building the stand and general maintaince on the tnak is going to be a lot easier.
Anyway. I had planned to get an aquamedic 120 for the original location because it was just the right size and was easy to get hold of locally. Now though I can got for a 5-6ftX2ftX2ft tank so the questions are:
Where is the best place in the UK to buy a reef ready tank of this size?
What price should I be looking at? One site I looked at had a 5ftX2ftX2ft tank for around £400 which seemed too cheap?
Now I need to get all the kit seperatly again I need to start looking at Powerheads, skimmers and lights. So:
Skimmers: I'm thinking a V2 800 or V2 1000 Skimmer. From what I have read these are good ones to go for. Both are over rated for a 150g tank
UV steriliser: V2 400 or V2 600
lighting: I plan on going to a full reef tank in the near future. Currently have an arcadia luminarie which is only 4ft long but had X4 54w T5's in. How much more light do you think a tank of this size would need to be able to grow LPS and SPS corals?
Water Flow: I'm thinking to start with X4 koralia 4's and possible a couple smaller ones + a wave controller.
Sump: I'm stealing the idea from someone on these forums and going to get a 20g ish koi tub. Will need to work out what size pump I need after I have the tank I think.
Heater: The house is pretty warm so I think maybe two 150w heaters in the sump should do the trick.
Would like to hear of any improvments, or changes to be made to the above. I have given this a budget of £2k in total (not including livestock) which I think should be doable.
Next thing to think about is fish and corals but will leave that for another post
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