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All great advice! Salt water can do serious damage. The beauty of your aquarium really needs to be enjoyed and it will be if it is in a prominent location a bit out of the way of traffic, just a bit…Being able to do maintenance is absolutely key. I don’t do water changes with buckets, too much lifting and sloshing. I had rotator cuff surgery and had to devise a way to do water changes with one arm. I started using a dirty water garbage can and a clean water garbage can for water changes. Albeit, one of my aquariums is only 50 gallons, so it is easier that way. Using pumps and tubing to quickly remove the water and replace it, in IMHO, it’s the very best way to go. As a reminder from my other post, connect your aquarium to a separate circuit so that you don’t overload and have outages. Cheers! JLTank will be a focal point. Set up around it so that it can be enjoyed. Don’t tuck into the spot where the book shelf was. Think of maintenance. Think of the syphon hose accident. Don’t put your amp, receiver, computer, turntable next to it. Understand that salt corrosion is a real thing and any electronics just By sharing the room will be shorter lived.
Think of where you’ll be slopping the 5 gallon buckets of water when you do your water changes.
Watch where the rays of sun came n through the window in the room and remember there are seasonal changes which will cause change.