Some Advice On New Aquarium Please

[rick_wolves]

I am thinking about ordering a custom built 300gallon aquarium...so its gonna be pretty big - 109x26x24inches with a sump. I know in terms of water stability the size would be a good thing, obviously it will cost quite a bit of money to run the equipment, and I will require more filtration on such a big tank.

Can you think of many other drawbacks apart from the expense of it? I was thinking that I will put all the live rock required at the start and then treat it as more of a project and work on stocking it slowly with inverts/fish as and when i can afford it.

Do you think I would need loads of powerheads in a tank that size and do you think positioning will be too difficult?
I'm not a newbie, but I'm also not the most experienced guy here! I have also considered hiring someone with more experience to do monthly maintenance work.

any feedback will be appreciated

 

[ben1987]

what your keeping in it will have a massive effect on what you need. so research that first then we can help you on equipment!

 

[rick_wolves]

what your keeping in it will have a massive effect on what you need. so research that first then we can help you on equipment!

well im looking at a reef aquarium with inverts including soft corals and probably stony corals/anenome/clam eventually. Fish would like the equipment to be able to choose what i want really, tangs, trrigerfish, clowns, anthias....

 

[ben1987]

its the corals you like that impact equipment more tbh, so with SPs corals, nems and clams your going to want a few halides in a tank that size

 

[Morri]

its the corals you like that impact equipment more tbh, so with SPs corals, nems and clams your going to want a few halides in a tank that size

Dependant on the depth etc lighting is gunna be fun am guessing some 450 mh with a load of T5s to get the right colour.

 

[ben1987]

its only 2 foot high...i reckon some 250's would be enough, with some T5's or high kelvin rated 400's and no T5's

 

[Morri]

Just re read dimmensions are there so its roughly 9ft so you could use 2 x 54w x 6 T5 units