Thanks for the input, that's why i was posting before I added livestock. I like the goby idea. My first thought was a watchman and a pistol shrimp, but I realy want a perc, so maybe one clown and a small goby is a good idea. How about the invert list? Overkill as well, or is that OK? I'd realy rather have a skunk cleaner rather than a peppermint, because they're out in the open all the time, but the pep is much smaller.
The reactor media works fine. There's no real added benefit, since the
pH isn't low enough to desolve it, it's just like any other media. I used it because I had it handy.
I dumped the bioballs and replaced them with some
LR rubble from my
sump. The sponge is just in there to help seed the tank, then it will go back in my
sump where it stays for when I need to set up
QT.
The back of mine is definitely plastic. The whole filtration section is plastic, and is siliconed to the back of the tank. I wish it were glass, that sounds like the perfect solution to growing macro.
The hood on the tank is such that I can't use a
HOB skimmer, which puts me back to the posibility of plumbing in a
sump.
Josh, what was so difficult about it? I was thinking I could just drill 2 holes in the back panel and use some 1/2" spaflex to drain down to the
sump, same for the return. I'd probably plumb the return to feed back into the filtration section and let the MJ continue to handle flow in the tank.
With a
sump, I could have a
skimmer,
fuge,
ATO, more
LR and maybe a
DSB, not to mention the extra system volume.
