This is a $ Contact Sport!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow have I been bit!!!!!!!!!

Just getting the reef tank set up and I'm onto a FOWLR! Believe it or not I started out wanting a Picasso and a Lion. Before you know it I fell in love with Corals and forgot all about my aggression! A Gazillion dollars and a Bizillion Watts later I visit the LFS with my wife and she says "Wow we have got to have a lion, some triggers, a maneater a coral hater and anything else that eats everything for fun"!!!

Hence...The FOWLR!

46 gal 36x12x20. I've got a Fluvol 404 hanging around and plenty of LR and Sand...What else do I need Skimmers...Sumps...lights...There has got to be some place to show my wallet I'm not the village idiot!

Help

 

How long have you had this thing set up? Go slow!

Perhaps you should do the fish-only thing for 6 months to a year, and then slowly add the coral that you want. I think this is the direction that I am heading.

If you really want the coral now, please take a deep breath and do a lot of reading (on 3Reef and other places). Then, jump in!

 

FOWLR is a seperate tank. Both for all intents of purpose will be FOWLR for 4-6 months. I'm just setting 1 up to be reef safe. The other for the more aggressive fish triggers, etc. Pretty clear on the reef tank just want to know what I need for the FOWLR.

Thanks for getting back to me.

 

for a fish only tank you can use pc,t-5 you don,t need mh, and if your going to have triggers you need a good skimmer. there pretty mess eaters .

 

Blub! Thanks.
Sump and Berlin??? No Sump? HOT Skimmer?

 

Need a skimmer, for sure. If the fish are as messy as Blubfish says, you'll want a good filter, too.
Sump? Up to you. Most people on this site recommend a sump or refugium. (I don't have one, because I don't want it in the nice living room where grandson can get at it.)

 

with your fluval you would be ok without a sump imo but make sure you clean it every other week and you would definitly need a skimmer.

 

Set the Fluval up for bio more the chemical. FOWLER's especially with Lions are dirty. Get a big skimmer.

 

Get a bigger tank if you want to keep triggers and lionfish. 46g is way too small IMHO!

 

Oh, I don't know about that, Raven. Triggers are tough, but slow-moving fish like Lions don't need a lot of room.
A long time ago I had a beautiful huge Black Volitan Lionfish in a 30G tall hex. But, he was the only creature in the tank.