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Hello all, new to this site. It's been a long time since I have had a salt water tank, around 10 years now. I had a 29 gallon bio cube. Also ways wanted another one. My son has been begging for one for a few years now. He is almost a 11 now and figured it was a good time as he can actually help take care of it. I also want to do this right and get everything I need to run this thing as smoothly as possible. This will be a reef tank, with mostly soft corals. So here we are now, I have bought a used 65 gallon tank. It came with everything you see in the pictures. The light is a Coralife 36 inch Lunar aqualight led tri-lamp (https://www.coralifeproducts.com/product/aqualight-led/ ), return pump is a Fluval 14335, not sure what brand the sump is. So far I have also bought a Octo Classic 110-S skimmer and a Aqua FX 6 stage RO/DI. So first issue I see is access to the sump though the tiny door in the stand. I might can get everything done though it. I just see it as being a problem down the road. I would take the panels apart and use magnets to hold them on, but who ever built it also glued them to the 2x4's. Now is the Coralife light that came with the tank. It looks to be a nice light but I can't seem to find anything on it. No reviews or anything. I was going to go ahead and fill up the empty bulb spots on it as you can still get the bulbs on e-bay new. Any input on the light would be welcome. As for the sump what is every one's recommendation on where everything should be placed? I have seen some with the protein skimmer in the first chamber with the filter sock and some in the middle. I would like to run a refugium in the middle. So with this, I'm guessing I should put the skimmer in the first chamber. I hope to have the tank up and running in the next few weeks. Going to start with just live sand and about 30-35 pounds of case rock. Then looking to order 35-40 pounds of live rock to put in the tank and let that run for a few months and make sure everything is stable before adding anything. I'm sure I'll have many more questions. Thanks for any feed back.