My first marine aquarium

[vetteguy53081]

bUY THE BEST EQUIPMENT YOU CAN AFFORD - no regrets. DO VIEW THE MANY TANK FORUMS WE HAVE TO START GETTING IDEAS

 

[Captain Quint]

Congrats on your choice of sizes. Universally 120s are one of the most popular to own.

Welcome to R2R and by the pics, you are going to have a cool predator tank...nice. :)

BTW, I really like the 'distressed' look of your stand. It looks great and the 2 corners OF's will do nicely.

 

[crazysun]

Great to see you in the hobby. Can't wait to see your build.

 

[Stephen R]

Congrats on your choice of sizes. Universally 120s are one of the most popular to own.

Welcome to R2R and by the pics, you are going to have a cool predator tank...nice. :)

BTW, I really like the 'distressed' look of your stand. It looks great and the 2 corners OF's will do nicely.

 

[Stephen R]

So far my inventory

 

[Mudder]

Welcome to R2R!!
This is a Great place for info and Help

 

[scriptmonkey]

Welcome too R2R! Looks like you are off to a great start. Saw you are looking at the Eflux pump, I have the same one.. one word of warning, pump is built like a tank, went 18 months of running it before I felt bad and cleaned it. Be very careful of the twist nob on the controller, it is extremely fragile and mine if you even look at it wrong it will cause the pump to reset....this is the second one, they had to replace the first because it was doing the same thing.

 

[Stephen R]

Should I not get the eflux

 

[scriptmonkey]

I'm am still running mine. I would just mount the controller out the way so it cannot even remotely have a chance to be bumped. I did purchase a backup pump, a reef octopus varios 8, it is what I am moving too in my new build.

 

[Stephen R]

Is it still pumping up to 1900 gph because I didn’t receive it yet so I can change it

 

[Stephen R]

With the filter I’m getting how much rock do you recommend

 

[scriptmonkey]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/current-usa-eflux-dc-pump-controller-issues.340855/

This is a good description of the issue. I cannot get mine to 100% without overwhelming my return, I have a Marineland cornerflo tank so I do not know. But remember you will never reach the advertised flow rate. Head pressure, pipe friction, stuff like that affects that number.

 

[scriptmonkey]

With the filter I’m getting how much rock do you recommend

So I never used a wet dry filter. I have always used just a sump, it is more flexible than that type of system.

One I am currently using is made by skimz:
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/up30-sumpro-sump-skimz.html

Allows for a skimmer section, has a ATO water section. My tank is 75gal so the size is just right for it.

 

[P-Dub]

I second scriptmonkey's recommendation to go with a standard sump and not a wet/dry. They are fine if you only ever plan on a fish only system but are not best practices if you would like to keep corals.

 

[Stephen R]

I second scriptmonkey's recommendation to go with a standard sump and not a wet/dry. They are fine if you only ever plan on a fish only system but are not best practices if you would like to keep corals.

I’m not doing corals I like the aggressive fish

 

[Stephen R]

I second scriptmonkey's recommendation to go with a standard sump and not a wet/dry. They are fine if you only ever plan on a fish only system but are not best practices if you would like to keep corals.

I’m not doing corals I like the aggressive fish

 

[Captain Quint]

Awesome!

May I suggest replacing the BioBalls with live rock and live rock rubble?

 

[Captain Quint]

So I never used a wet dry filter. I have always used just a sump, it is more flexible than that type of system.

One I am currently using is made by skimz:
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/up30-sumpro-sump-skimz.html

Allows for a skimmer section, has a ATO water section. My tank is 75gal so the size is just right for it.

I've used countless wet/dry but not with BioBalls and I like both but admit to more standard sumps over the past decade. :)

 

[Stephen R]

Awesome!

May I suggest replacing the BioBalls with live rock and live rock rubble?

I’m still putting live rock in tank I’m utilizing the wet /dry for the biological