chwattscaw
New member
Hello,
I have been keeping salt water tanks for verious complexity since 1980. Now i have never kept a FOWLR, but have had very large successful reef systems.
I am thinking about setting up a large tank, 180 gal or more, for FOWLR. So I have a lot of questions.
1. Can someone direct me to a source of info on these setups.
the rest are specific questions:
2. What lighting is best, or acceptable for FOWLR. I would assume I want to drive some coraline algae, and of course keep the live rock 'alive'. But don't want algae problems (maybe the fish population takes care of that?)
3. filtration: Eg, sand bed?, lbs of live rock per gal, what types of additional filtration is necessary?
4. do I need to dose, or keep calcium up etc.
5. Skimmer (I would assume this is most important in a heavy fish loaded tank).
Anything else I have missed?
so here is my thought and if I am completely mistaken please correct me. I am thinking this might be less expensive and less difficult than a reef. But as i walk through the questions, I am thinking maybe I am mistaken. Please advise.
Thanks,
Chris
I have been keeping salt water tanks for verious complexity since 1980. Now i have never kept a FOWLR, but have had very large successful reef systems.
I am thinking about setting up a large tank, 180 gal or more, for FOWLR. So I have a lot of questions.
1. Can someone direct me to a source of info on these setups.
the rest are specific questions:
2. What lighting is best, or acceptable for FOWLR. I would assume I want to drive some coraline algae, and of course keep the live rock 'alive'. But don't want algae problems (maybe the fish population takes care of that?)
3. filtration: Eg, sand bed?, lbs of live rock per gal, what types of additional filtration is necessary?
4. do I need to dose, or keep calcium up etc.
5. Skimmer (I would assume this is most important in a heavy fish loaded tank).
Anything else I have missed?
so here is my thought and if I am completely mistaken please correct me. I am thinking this might be less expensive and less difficult than a reef. But as i walk through the questions, I am thinking maybe I am mistaken. Please advise.
Thanks,
Chris