If I had it to do all over again

If you were setting up your tank today, what would you do differnetly and why?

1. never bought a damsel to cycle the tank, they are mean, and I had to tear my tank apart to get them out.

2. would have consulted 3reef earlier.

 

I would have drilled the tank and mounted an external overflow. Right now I am in the process of making my siphon overflow more failsafe by having to add a second one. Been reading on too many people flooding out the room by using one and that is unacceptable to me.

 

I would've never put in that undulated trigger

 

Attached my LR to molded pvc and still cycled my tank with a yellow tail damsel.

 

If I had it to do all over again, I would have stuck with my Cichlid tanks! hahahahahaha!

but since I have so much time, money, energy and knowledge caught up in this I might as well keep on keeping on!

 

you know you love it, now dont cha, come on admit it, you wouldnt have it any other way.

 

I guess had i wanted to make any changes or do somthing over again' I would have drilled a lower 2 holes to make a closed loop in my 220.

All in all it's been a blast and one hell of a learning experiance along the way.
But I would'int go back for the world, nothing amounts to the same as salt water reefing,
as well met some real good people with alot of fresh idea's as well.

 

I use to love it, for the past few months, its just been work. I dont even have a display tank anymore, only selling/growout tanks and quarantine tanks.

Maybe some day in the future I will have another display tank.

 

The only thing that I would have changed is to start with a larger tank from the begining and not do the step by step up-grades. Luna

 

Yeah well if we were all rich, I am sure we would do a lot of stuff different.