I came across a 100 gallon tank, stand, and canopy, with a 20 gallon sump with more accesories than I will use (will sale those) as well as with Halide lighting for $500 this weekend.
The liverock did not appear to have that much life to it and as it took me all day to break down the tank and I replaced all crushed coral with play sand, I decided to go ahead and cycle the tank with coctail shrimp. I threw four of them in there last night.
My questions do you think that one 250 watt Metal halide and 2 65 watt PC's will be enough for this tank. It came with a really bad diy canopy that I will redo and a 175 metal halide and ballast. I already have a 250 metal halide and the power compacts in a PFO setup. I intend to just move my lights to the new caopy with a largerger 36 inch reflector. If I dont have to run both of the halides I do not want to but if they are both needed then I will. The tank dimensions are 36 inch wide X 22 inch deep X by 29 inch tall. Those are rough but should be about right.
My plan is stilll to just have the 4 fish the hawk fish, pair of mated clarkis and a madorinne dragonette. This will just give me more room for coral and the 20 gallon sump will have room for a refugium so I should have enough pods in the tank by the end of the year.
So what are yalls opinions on the lights? Also do you think it was wise to cycle the tank before I moved over my cleanup crew and hawkfish?
Also once it is cycled I was going to move some of the live rock from my current tank to the new tank this can be moved a few feet with realtively little die off right? There is about 170-180 lbs of live rock in there now and ther is about 20-30 lbs in my current tank that I would like to move.
The liverock did not appear to have that much life to it and as it took me all day to break down the tank and I replaced all crushed coral with play sand, I decided to go ahead and cycle the tank with coctail shrimp. I threw four of them in there last night.
My questions do you think that one 250 watt Metal halide and 2 65 watt PC's will be enough for this tank. It came with a really bad diy canopy that I will redo and a 175 metal halide and ballast. I already have a 250 metal halide and the power compacts in a PFO setup. I intend to just move my lights to the new caopy with a largerger 36 inch reflector. If I dont have to run both of the halides I do not want to but if they are both needed then I will. The tank dimensions are 36 inch wide X 22 inch deep X by 29 inch tall. Those are rough but should be about right.
My plan is stilll to just have the 4 fish the hawk fish, pair of mated clarkis and a madorinne dragonette. This will just give me more room for coral and the 20 gallon sump will have room for a refugium so I should have enough pods in the tank by the end of the year.
So what are yalls opinions on the lights? Also do you think it was wise to cycle the tank before I moved over my cleanup crew and hawkfish?
Also once it is cycled I was going to move some of the live rock from my current tank to the new tank this can be moved a few feet with realtively little die off right? There is about 170-180 lbs of live rock in there now and ther is about 20-30 lbs in my current tank that I would like to move.