Re: 300 Gallon Tank

[MGRigby]

Wow!  Thanks for all the replies to my questions about the tank.  Really am excited about getting to do this.  First thing I am going to do is order the ro/di unit and start the clean up.  Think the best bet is going with a complete water change and doing what you all suggested with the live rock cleaning, etc.  The tank is not drilled so I assume I will have to use one or two hang on overflows.  Any suggestions?  And the pump (pumps) for the return.  Any suggestions?  Am going to call Ron on Monday and get the skimmer on order.  I have a friend at my LFS who has some advanced or magntek (not sure) Tar ballasts that he is not using.  He has four that will fire two 4 ft. vhos each (he thinks they will do six footers too)  Think I will go ahead and look at 8 four foot vhos (four daylight and four 03) and have t! he 03's come on and the daylights come on later on timers.  I like the blue only look in the morning and evening.  If we ever want to add some corals I think with a couple MH pendants added to this we would be in good shape.  The lights, Ron's skimmer, ro/di unit, water change, cleaning, will be a good start and get us going I think.  Not sure what I want to do about the substrate.  Like the look of the sugar sized sand but need some suggestions here.  I would assume that some live sand with 50 or 100 lbs. of fresh rock would be a good idea too.  Thanks again for all the suggestions and I will keep this list informed on my progress and add some pics to my web page of what it looks like now.  Might be easier for you guys to help me if you can see what I am up against. Thanks Glen