fresh to the hobby

[jstack]

hello all, so I'm new to the sw hobby and have been intrigued awhile. I do have around 15 or so years Xp with freshwater so I know the reg cycle and have been living on youtube, forums etcetc.. knowledge is power with that said I have no real sw keeper's I can turn to for my needs (LFS tried selling me a twin spot wrasse for a 36 g). This is distress call before I waste and more $.

Now that I put that out there to the fun!!I recently bought
56 column w/stand
50lb's of reef saver DR
40lb's of Ag/ol sand (did not want to go over 2 inch)
ro/di 50gpd (does this really trickle out this slow)
2 Fluval 50 gal circ pumps
Prime,Mb7, Ph+
150 watt ehiem I think
so there is what I have and where I am stuck. 1 I cannot own a sump ftm So after alot of research on the last 3 Items I need will it be good enough? Yes i do know the reef oct 100 is the same price but the tunze has some great review's.
I would like to run the Tunze 9004 alongside a aquaclear 70 packed with elite chemipure, poldpads and gfo would that suffice?
what are my goal's WALL HAMMERS OMG, zoanthids please alot of the Lps maybe a few Sps much later Monti/birds nest. As for the fish I would like to have 3 orange-back fairy wrasse 1 flame angel,goby and maybe a black-cap bass.
if you made it this far bless your heartxD

 

[OrQidz]

Welcome to the hobby!!

I am sumpless as well - it can be done! I am a believer in the AC HOBs with chemical filtration and I have seen people put skimmers in there which is a great solution.

Sounds like your coral plans are good! A good reefer knows exactly what their light is so I would check that out Is it an LED? The thing with SW is that the lighting paradigm doesn't transfer over. The watts per gallon that works with FW planted tanks just doesn't really translate. So you have to adjust your light thinking a little bit.

Those are good coral choices and frogspawn is great!

 

[jstack]

oh yes frogspawn! love it as for the lighting I have been having abit of a problem as far as depth my tank being 30l,18w and 24d.. on what to run to get the depth I need.tyvm for replying

 

[OrQidz]

Oh a deep tank....very nice but yes a bit more challenging on the lighting. You are going to need a decent light I think. LED for sure as they get down deeper in the tank. I've seen some neat column style tanks with a pillar of rock, with the more light hungry corals near the top. It can make for a really neat display. There is a large reef tanks forum that you might check out. Some of the folks there have pretty deep tanks and I recall seeing threads about what lights are best. You may experience tank envy at the giant tanks, I know I do! There are people with literally pools as tanks....

 

[jstack]

So I picked up my Ac 70 hob w/gfo n chemipure polypads and am still kinda of hesitant on the Tunze 9004 protein skimmer hoping some reefers give me a few tip's. I ordered my lighting the 2 piece 165w Mars Aqua should be in next week. any help,tips and advice is much appreaciated