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Glen,
You might want to consider having the tank drilled
and installing some overflows.....maybe its just me but I know if it were my
tank I would want to do it right from the beginning. Something like drilling
overflows is an option that would definately be nice to decide on before filling
it with water. Im sure you could find a professional glass worker who could
drill em, or is it an acrylic tank? even easier :-)
Ive never used hang-on overflows, are they a pain
with siphon's breaking etc....
Steve
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 8:43
PM
Subject: Re: 300 Gallon Tank
Wow! Thanks for
all the replies to my questions about the tank. Really am
excited
about getting to do this. First thing I am going to do is order the
ro/di unit and start the clean up. Think the best bet is going with
a
complete water change and doing what you all suggested with the live
rock
cleaning, etc. The tank is not drilled so I assume I will have
to use one or
two hang on overflows. Any suggestions? And the
pump (pumps) for the
return. Any suggestions? Am going to call
Ron on Monday and get the skimmer
on order. I have a friend at my
LFS who has some advanced or magntek (not
sure) Tar ballasts that he is
not using. He has four that will fire two 4
ft. vhos each (he thinks
they will do six footers too) Think I will go ahead
and look at 8
four foot vhos (four daylight and four 03) and have t! he 03's
come on and
the daylights come on later on timers. I like the blue only look
in
the morning and evening. If we ever want to add some corals I think with
a couple MH pendants added to this we would be in good shape. The
lights,
Ron's skimmer, ro/di unit, water change, cleaning, will be a good
start and
get us going I think. Not sure what I want to do about the
substrate. Like
the look of the sugar sized sand but need some
suggestions here. I would
assume that some live sand with 50 or 100
lbs. of fresh rock would be a good
idea too. Thanks again for all
the suggestions and I will keep this list
informed on my progress and add
some pics to my web page of what it looks
like now. Might be easier
for you guys to help me if you can see what I am
up against.
Thanks
Glen
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