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06-19-2006, 08:52 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Pawtucket, RI
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Plan looks like this..
since ive come to the conclusion i need a bigger tank (i said it before we even got this 20 gal) ive talked both my parents into letting me put in a 45 gallon and getting rid of my dresser and trophy cabinet( putting upshelving and whatnot)...sooo heres what I THINK the plans gonna be...
45 gal tank
Jebo PS75 SUMP Protein Skimmer
Live Sand + Crushed Gravel bottom
Plently Live Rock
... need ideas for filtration and lighting...putting in a hawkfish, clarkii clown, percula clown, and what looks like (and some have told me) a flower anenome
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06-19-2006, 10:09 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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Are you doing an overflow and sump?
Also I would just do sand/aragonite and leave of the crushed coral!
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06-19-2006, 10:21 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2006
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not sure if ill be doing overflow and sump...is it really needed for a 45 gal or just something to "think" of doing
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06-19-2006, 10:51 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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Not necassary...but make hiding things a lot easier and more options and better skimmers!
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Nano reef in the works
TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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06-19-2006, 11:00 AM
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I loves me a water change
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: WI
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I agree with skipping the crushed coral. I do not believe you need very strong lighting with what you say is in the tank. Just a skimmer, LR, LS, and good flow, and I think you are on your way. 
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06-19-2006, 11:30 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Pawtucket, RI
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yes one thing im worried of is the lighting...whether it will be enough for the anenome...right now i have a 10 watt full-spectrum and he'sfine
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06-19-2006, 11:31 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
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10 watts......
What all do you plan for this 45 gallon???>
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Nano reef in the works
TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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06-19-2006, 11:33 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Pawtucket, RI
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thinking 90 watt
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06-19-2006, 01:26 PM
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moddin aint easy
Join Date: Apr 2006
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are you planning on any corals, if so, and for the sake on the anenome, you should at least try to get a set of power compacts, or better.
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06-19-2006, 01:39 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Pawtucket, RI
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no coral only live rock and the anenome
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