180 Gal Reef

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  1. tacashion

    tacashion Plankton

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  2. ReefBruh

    ReefBruh Giant Squid

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    Welcome to 3reef. Lots of that will depend on what type of tank you want to run, either a Fish only or a reef. Either way you would need a pump that is going to push about 10X the tank, Protein Skimmer to be at least rated at 180 gallons, and lighting goes for what type of style tank you will be running. I suggest T5's just to be safe in case you start off with a fish only system and decide to upgrade to a reef system. For mechanical filtration you might want to run a gfo reactor for phosphates or a carbon reactor to keep the water clean and polished. Some people run those in combination to bio pellet reactors to help with nitrates and phosphates. Just depends on you. With this hobby you could end up with a setup either simple or as technical as NASA.
     
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