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Hello Reefers! Happy to be here.

I'm setting up a 40B, and though I'm waiting on a living situation where I can have it running, I'm currently having fun buying things and reading up on how it's done these days.

I was into the saltwater hobby a long time ago when I was in high school during the mid 80s. When everyone ran undergravel filters. I even worked at a LFS. It wasn't that great, though. The owners smoked cigarettes in the same room with the tanks and exotic birds.
 
Welcome to your new home for saltwater reef aquarium resources and fun! Welcome to the family! :D
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Undergravel filters might be a bit "out of date", but there are still people that are running tanks with undergravel or reverse undergravel filters (which require less maintenance and won't crash your tank as easily 😅).
 
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