[Crash]

Hi there, thought I'd pop this up here so that people can follow along and offer advice, yell at me or just generally laugh at my naivety.

The spec:
Fluval Vicenza 180. It came to me second hand after being used successfully as a marine tank for several years.
It has an external filter a Fluval 205,
3 power heads, 1200l/ph each
Red sea Prizim skimmer Looking at TMC V2 400 Protein Skimmer(overkill?)
RO Unit
Lighting system in debate...replace the original hood...or dangle some halides over the top? choices...

There are a few things that need fixing in the tank some resealing down the side but nothing big really.

I've tested the RO unit and it comes out as 1ppm when i first did it, hopefully this was just some crud in the pipes. Will be using dead sand and Live rock aprox 20kg (when i eventualy get paid...)

I'll post some picks shortly

Thanks crash

[chriss]

Look forward to seeing it up and running. Lighting wise, it depends what you want to keep; full on sps then halides, anything else t5 or dare I say it led's.

Chris

[Crash]

cheers, as for the lighting I'm not a fan of LED's personally unless its just to highlight odd bits...Will probably get t5's to be honnest the questions is do i need to make some form of hood or can i just use the standard one...

[ben]

some hoods will accomodate quite a few light tubes, especially if you use remote ballasts like t5's have. hard to say how many without seeing it really.

[lindsay]

Not sure on your tank volume but suspect you would be better off with a Deltec mce 600.