Opinions on set up?

[Caper]

I read the rules again for linking to other sites so I hope I'm doing this right! It's on a web page from "The Age of Aquariums".

I was just wondering what you wise "Salty" people think of this set up. I guess I thought you had to have tanks, like I've seen here & other places, to have these kind of fish. This person is obviously doing this, so it must work then????

http://www.aquahobby.com/tanks/e_tank0504.php

Caper

[wasp]

It can certainly be done, in fact my first marine tank back in the 80's was a FO and fairly similar. Cost back in those days, less than 300 bucks.

Couple of things though, the tank as pictured is nice and clean and attractive to look at, won't stay like that everything will go green as there is no phosphate removal. What I did in those days (please nobody laugh) I had two sets of decorations, they were alternated monthly, the one I took out of the tank would sit on the deck to bleach white again. Did a 10% water change monthly. Nitrates tend to build up pretty high in these systems also.

If you want to go this way, you will eventually want to get live corals. A good plan would be to set the tank up in such a way so your options are open in the future, to install the needed stuff to go full reef if you decide to.

[slappers]

I WILL SMILE THEN

[davidb]

It looks so artificial IMO... I would rather have just live rock with lots of pink corralline to those dead corals... they are just so WHITE!