shawn.short
New member
Just FYI, This of course ONLY my opinion. I am not an expert by any means, but i have been in this hobby for about 8years. as for cons to large tanks.
I went from a 35 to a 75 to120, and now have a 325 with a 140 sump/refugium. I agree the set up is most of the cost, but get the right stuff and maint. is a breeze. I used to do waterchanges constantly like clock work. Then i met an older reefer who was at my LFS. He was laughing at the fact i was doing water changes, to make a long story short, The reef club had a meeting at his house andhis tank was 500g awsomeness. he did water changes only if a small spike of nitrates were present. So i started doing the same. My tanks have been so healthy since. Let nature work, I have 500 lbs of rock 300lbs of live sand and a big refugium. i do waterchanges about twice a year i have AI sol blue Leds and my electric bill is happily low. So it dosent have to be soo expensive just sayin....good luck
I went from a 35 to a 75 to120, and now have a 325 with a 140 sump/refugium. I agree the set up is most of the cost, but get the right stuff and maint. is a breeze. I used to do waterchanges constantly like clock work. Then i met an older reefer who was at my LFS. He was laughing at the fact i was doing water changes, to make a long story short, The reef club had a meeting at his house andhis tank was 500g awsomeness. he did water changes only if a small spike of nitrates were present. So i started doing the same. My tanks have been so healthy since. Let nature work, I have 500 lbs of rock 300lbs of live sand and a big refugium. i do waterchanges about twice a year i have AI sol blue Leds and my electric bill is happily low. So it dosent have to be soo expensive just sayin....good luck
