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Hey! I've been around aquariums all my life, but school and life got hectic, I starting spawning my own creatures...so the fish tank became a nuisance and dismantled. Here I am today....My creatures found dad's old tank in the basement and want it set up. It sounded great - but man, I feel like I forgot how to swim (and all the brands have changed).

At my highest point, I had a 75 gal Oceanic glass reef tank (big thick glass) that would make grown men cry when we moved it a few times and lights that made me cry when I opened my electric bill.

Then I got into the Nano scene with a few Biocubes. Before finishing with a 29 Gal Biocube HQI.

This is the tank I'm setting back up. What suggestions do you have for me?

I do not want the Metal Halide, I want to move to LED - but I want to have the ability to do any corals as we move along. LEDs were just coming to the party when I quit the hobby

I do not want to go rimless,

I want a sump (to expand the water volume).

What would you do if you were setting up it up?
 
Welcome to Reef2Reef! You may want to check out the build thread section for inspiration.
 
Welcome!
Another one sucked back in!
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Welcome to the fishy family. I would start watching the BRSTV videos and subscribe to some of the wise YouTube folks like Tidal Gardens and CoralFish12. There is so much info out there, just take the time to digest it.
You can do some great things with LED and we could start a war arguing Kessil vs Radion vs AI vs Black Box. Ultimately, the choices are yours based on desires and budget.
I'd start by gathering all of the supplies - one factor at a time... return, sump, skimmer, lights... then build.
 

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