I went to the store today and bought 37 lbs of
live rock. I had 60lbs of base rock in the tank already. I ended up taking about 10lbs of the base rock out. so in the end there is about 80-90 lbs of roock with a 4inch sand bed. As for the pumps the pump on the protien
skimmer outs out 295
gph. then have a seio that puts out 620
gph, and then three maxijet power heads with 160
gph. the maxijets are going to be on timers to turn on and off so only one or two of them will be running at a time. that is going to turn the water over about 25 timer per hour. is that too much current? I have pretty much decided what fish I want to put in the tank but havn't decided yet what kinda of current I want on the tank. as it is a deeper tank it is going to have 4 2ft
t5's and a 10k 250w 10K bulb on it. I am not going to put the
metal halide on the tank untill I start putting corals in the tank. mostly because of the electric bill and there are already 5 4ft flourescents bulbs on the 180g on the other side of the room and was trying not to blind people sitting in my living room.
In my freshwater tanks I currently have and have had in the past I tend to biome tanks where all the fish are from the same part of the world. In my african cichlid tank all but two of the fish are from Lake Malawi and I mave two lake tanganikans cichlids in there. I know with freshwater tanks alot of the reason for not mixing hard water african cichlids with soft water south american cichlids is diffrent water chemistry. with marine fish indo-pacific fish have very similar water chemisty needs as those from the caribbeen. so how many of you out there do tanks that are particular to one part of the world or is it common to mix and match and not really pay attention to where this fish is from and that fish is from?
Sally
