Thanks! The frag rack is loaded with awesome corals. It's going to be a fun ride growing them out!
I agree, something down along the right side wall of my apartment....
Alan, I got the go ahead from the Misses. I had planted the seed, so I think she was somewhat ready for it. She said "I don't know if I should kill you, or be happy for you..." Needless to say, she's already helping plan how we are going to squeeze it in. She did make it clear that it would not be 2 big a** tanks 1 room. I've got a lot of planning to do, and hope to have everything moved in this weekend if I can get it all organized. I'd like to at least start filling it up and getting my rock cycled again.
A double in size leaves me with a lot of things to think about. Lights, water movement, electricity, skimmer, pumps, well, everybody else here knows how it goes!
My first thought was lighting. I think at this stage the d120's would have been a good grab for an almost 7 foot long tank, although not in the budget right now, and IMO a little too much clutter. I'm considering another IT2080 and coping with the loss of spread on the edges or in between the two. I'm interested in furthering this quickly, as I might jump in on group buy #7.
I think I have enough rock, and would like to plan all the things I wanted to do differently this time around. I am thinking bare bottom, or maybe starboard, although at this stage, I'm wondering if I can even be bothered. I would like to take the crushed coral I have in my tank now and scatter in what I plan to be a low flow area. This will hopefully transfer over all my great diversity of life, but I'm hoping will be enough for my pistol shrimp, who maybe I might have to get rid of if this is the case. I believe my goby has expired, but maybe I will find it somewhere in the back of my tank?
These are some of the thoughts that kept me up last night.
I also worry about what if when I go bigger I don't have as much success as I've had with my 57!? Maybe I did well with it because it was a manageable starting point? Either way, challenge accepted, no regrets!