Currently I have a 75 Mbuna set up, I am also in the process of building a 240 gallon plywod tank with glass in the front. I have the stand built, and the tank to the point where I just need to epoxy it. I also already have the glass. But latley i've been questioning the big tank. Hopefully in the next few years I will be selling my house and buying a bigger one, and I have to take the trim off of the basement stair case, and risk doing damage to get the large tank out when I sell the house. Also as much as love having mbuna, i've really been wanting to go the salt water route. It's not that I dislike fw tanks, but I just love watching all the little organisms in a sw tank. The fish are alot of fun to watch but I think the diversity in a good sw set up is more interesting. So I have been thinking of selling the stand I built, and keeping my 75 with mbuna, and setting up a nice 75 reef tank, or either getting rid of the mbuna to keep costs of running the equipment down and only running (1) 75 gallon sw tank, or last but not least finish the 240, and deal with getting it out of the basement in a few years and no sw tank. What are your opinions? So far i'm leaning on selling the 240 stand, keeping the glass for a later build, selling the mbuna and setting up a 75 reef.
Opinions on what I should do.
- Thread starter Rmelz
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Sounds like you've got some figuring to do. I agree that the diversity of a sw tank is more interesting. It's a big investment tho. For sw, the tank is the cheap part. Example. 75 gallon tank: 75 lbs cured live rock- 6-8$ per lb.
2" aragonite substrate- 1$ per lb.
Protein skimmer with appropriate flow rate- 200$ give or take. Not to mention that for a reef a refugium is the way to go. And you haven't even looked at a fish yet. Not trying to talk you out of it, cuz I did the same thing in a spare 75 gal tank. But hindsight is 20/20, and I would have gone bigger
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2" aragonite substrate- 1$ per lb.
Protein skimmer with appropriate flow rate- 200$ give or take. Not to mention that for a reef a refugium is the way to go. And you haven't even looked at a fish yet. Not trying to talk you out of it, cuz I did the same thing in a spare 75 gal tank. But hindsight is 20/20, and I would have gone bigger
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