New Tank 240 G Wide - Planning suggestions and advice

swclown

swclown

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So I've had reef tanks for about 25 years now. The latest is a 155 bow front. It was once plummed to another 60 gallon for equipment (mostly a big euroreef skimmer then to a 30 gallon refug and then a 50 gallon sump. A couple of years ago we had the dechero storm and I lost power for a week and lost EVERYTHING. if i fragged everything it would be thousands of dollors worth of lps and sps lost ) : i had UPS power that kept me for two days but not a week. a generator will be in the mix this time!
So I got more LR and started it back up. I have gone really slow and tried to keep things simple with just a sump and the tank while I figure out what I want to do. i don't even have a single coral right now just 2 little clowns and 2 blue damsels.
So...I'm fairly set on a 240 gallon wide display tank. 8 feet long 2 feet wide and i think 2 feet deep. I want to keep things as simple as possible this time so i'm planning on a large sump that can house almost everything and a seperate refugium.
Lighting will be upgraded from current t5s and 400 MH to 4 Hydra 52s.
Flow will come from two vortech 60 models but here is the first question...will that be enough? I really do not want a closed loop system to add to everything else I have to think about so will the vortechs be enough? i have hydors i can add to the mix to supplement as well. tank will be a mix of lps and sps

I'm in brainstorm mode right now and any suggestions are welcome. I'm looking at getting the tank in a month or so and i'm sure I'll have more questions. Thanks for looking and more questions and pics to come (:

Stefan
 
I would add 2 mp40's to the back glass along with the two 60's you have planned

And yes, get a generator
 
i actually have a 240 wide!

i had a MP40W on the left side of the tank, and it was nice, but it stirred up a little too much sand and also, a MP40 won't push past 3' in a tank… (trust me, i could see corals rocking with them, and at 36" there were softies that wouldn't even budge..)
[i have no experience with the MP60's but i would think you wouldn't be able to use them to there capabilities because of the height limitation between water and sand]

i sold my MP40W for enough money to buy 4 Tunze 6100's (the older ones… but I'm a college student so i was ok with it) and the 6100's push further in the tank and kick up less sand.

i hooked seaswirls to my return lines to get a little randomness.

heres a few cell pictures of my tank a little while back.
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in the last picture, one of my 400w lights were off. (i was in the process of hooking a 4th halide to my tank. i originally had 3) and the bulbs were 14k ushio bulbs with no actinics at that time. not to mention i didn't clean the glass haha.
 
dahenley,

that's good information. thank you. my budget is rather slim so after the tank, stand and lights I'm gonna be eating tuna-fish and peanut butter sandwiches for a while so i decided to stagger the rest of the equipment over a period of time with basically one major purchase a paycheck until ...well about forever but i think it's a good plan!! . I don't have any corals now so no immediate need for a lot of circulation and this way I can think things through as I go :beer:
 
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when the driver got close to the drop off/pick up point (truck stop) he called and said he was in a purple Volvo. I was a little confused at first...
 
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Dave.M
 
Oh, you mean this one:
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1. Copy the image URL in Flickr. (Ctrl+c)

2. In RC's Editor, select the yellow mountain icon.
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3. A pop-up box appears. Past the image's URL there (Ctrl+v)

4. Save/Submit your post.

Dave.M
 
dave.m said:
Oh, you mean this one:
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1. Copy the image URL in Flickr. (Ctrl+c)

2. In RC's Editor, select the yellow mountain icon.
forum_mountain_img_icon.jpg


3. A pop-up box appears. Past the image's URL there (Ctrl+v)

4. Save/Submit your post.

Dave.M
Click to expand...



Dave,

thanks but I thought that is exactly what i did ) : hmmmph
 
You're going to hate me for this...
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Go into Flickr.

Go to the page that shows the various sizes of your image.

I selected a 500 or 600 size which is suitable for most browsers.

Right-mouse click on the image and select Copy Image Location.

Come back into RC Editor, select the yellow icon, Ctrl+v as before.

Dave.M
 
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