Early plannng, pre-purchasing questions

[bwhite33]

Greetings,

All this is a year or so out so, but I like to be able to get things setup slowly.

My main saltwater wish is Gobies/shrimp and and a jawfish. That leaves a lot of tank space to do stuff with and seeing that LPS NPS corals look great, so I'm wondering if this was a good match.

My thought was a DSB DT with a sump for the protein skimmer, heater, and other needed stuff, maybe a higher than DT refugium for the fun. I'd want the majority of rock to be man-made, and I really like the ledge and overhang look.

Is this doable and thrive-able? What is the consensus on filtering for NPS corals.

Thanks

 

[MarineSniper]

My nps tank upgrade is about done and I have a 6" dsb and a pair of jawfish (best fish in the hobby, imo)

"Filtration" for a nps system is, whatever you can utilize, really. They require a lot of food and a large portion of that food will end up on the bottom! In my 115 nps tank I have 125 blue leg crabs 250 assorted snails, fighting conchs, sand sifters and a few other live creatures to catch and clean up that missed food. I run a Geo beckett skimmer with an 1800 gph pump, media reactor w carbon and gfo, filter socks, fuge w macro and dsb, 175# liverock and even have a hob filter on my.sump, with Chemipure and Poly Filter in that. Anything to remove what goes in, is what you should consider

 

[bwhite33]

Thanks MS,

Is this where I ask you to update your build thread

Did you drill your tank? Did you consider a bio-pellet reactor or is that the media reactor?
Do you expect the fuge to add any pods to the DT?

Being in the mitten state north of you, maybe I can see your finished setup when I visit the in-laws down there.

Thanks again