Well, it seems I am launching into yet another hobby to consume that extra little bit of free time I have. I had a saltwater tank as a kid and last year went a little overboard on african cichlids. So I have two 110 gallon all male tanks, a 75 mbuna tank, a 40 with a rapidly growing jaguar cichlid and 75 with a pair of green terrors (oh, and a mixed 40 gallon planted and of course, the girlfriends 5 gallon pea puffer tank). Phew!
Anywho.. I ultimately want something in the 120 or 180 gallon range but I don't have the room for it right now (and I want to have some nice corals for when I set it up) So I am going to build a 4x2x16" frag tank with a 40 gallon sump and see if I can be successful growing polyps and sps. I have an 8 bulb T5ho light, bubble magnus skimmer, ranco temp controller, and a blue tooth bluelab guardian temp, DS, and ph monitor. I plan on having live rock and chateo (spelling?) in my sump. Flow wise I have the sump return pump and a jabaeo wave maker. I may need one more but I suppose I can set it up and see how it works.
I'm going to pick up a sheet of 1/2" acrylic tomorrow and should have the tank and coast to coast overflow done by some time next week.
Anyways.. I'm excited to meet some fellow reefers!!!