plancton
Active member
When I started in the reefing hobby, I planned everything in advance and had a good functional setup. My only mistake was that it was a bow front tank (hard to clean) and not very wide. It was a 70 gal.
Everybody kept saying that bigger was better so I jumped to 200 gals and that's where the hobby slowly turned into a nightmare: electricity costs went crazy, winter came strong and had to have many heaters which would rise electric costs, this also caused black outs at times. Evaporation was huge and therefore had to feed the tank 5 gallons daily, sometimes, I didn't have anybody to help me and so I couldn't take vacations and water changes were keeping the corals really colorful but I had to do them so often to keep the colors nicely which was also a huge expenditure on salt.
Also it was 24" tall and it was hard to clean.
These are the mistakes I went through and that's why now I want to setup a 30 gal. cube but shallow reef about 12" tall.
What's your perfect/worst size and why?
Everybody kept saying that bigger was better so I jumped to 200 gals and that's where the hobby slowly turned into a nightmare: electricity costs went crazy, winter came strong and had to have many heaters which would rise electric costs, this also caused black outs at times. Evaporation was huge and therefore had to feed the tank 5 gallons daily, sometimes, I didn't have anybody to help me and so I couldn't take vacations and water changes were keeping the corals really colorful but I had to do them so often to keep the colors nicely which was also a huge expenditure on salt.
Also it was 24" tall and it was hard to clean.
These are the mistakes I went through and that's why now I want to setup a 30 gal. cube but shallow reef about 12" tall.
What's your perfect/worst size and why?