My New Tank

[macpegg]

Ive decided to knock a wall through. My gf is not impressed.. but my reef comes 1st. I just have 48x24x18 and want to change over. But dunno if I should leave the smaller tank for the reef. and have the 6ft for fish only..

any ideas on what anybody else would do??

 

[parker313]

I would definitely do reef. It sounds like you want a real showpiece and there's just nothing that complements the fish like all the rock and corals and inverts in a full reef tank...

 

[macpegg]

Gonna take me a while to get this baby going. But im sure it`ll be well worth it. Monday i`ll be buy some hardware.
Im thinking of using a 4x3x3ft tank as a sump.. i dunno if this is a good idea. just gotta think of where i can hide it without it looking ugly..

 

[Navarre]

Thats a real big sump! if you can house it then you will have loads of space for filtration.

 

[CTS]

you do realize that A 4x3x3ft tank is 269Gal. I would buy that tank and make it my main tank and have your 90 gal. for a sump. Even then that seems like a big sump.

 

[Navarre]

That sump is larger in volume than my 7ft 220 gallon setup Over 1 ton in weight. i would rethink the sump volume unless you really are inteneding heavy stocking levels and require the extra volume for filtration.

 

[billa_bong]

keep your 90g and use it as the sump, should work good and give you plenty of room.

the 90 = 48x18x24