Fowlr tank

[kdfi]

I am thinking of starting a fowlr tank. was thinking around 90-120 gallons. either way I have the space. What type of filtration should I use? I was planning on geting a tank with internal overflow I still have a 125 wet dry filter can I use that and a 1200gph pump and place an octopus skimmer in the sump? Should I follow the 1lb of live rock per gal rule on FO tank? How much sand? Does it need a refrigrum?

thanks

[AC2020x]

I would say you probably don't really need a refugeum, but I'm no expert. If I was you I would get a 6' 125g tank as it expands your options quite a lot from a shorter tank of what you can get and how happy they will be. As far as live rock goes I have about 100 lbs of liverock in my 125g so I would probably stick somewhere around 1LB per gallon but it doesn't have to be exact. For filtration I have an octopus skimmer as well which works great in my sump and BRS dual reactor for both carbon and GFO and that along with my Live rock works great to keep it filtered. What kind of stock are you thinking about?

[kdfi]

I would like to get tangs or Angels that are compatable with that tank size.

Would you have pics of your filtration setup. Would like to see how it alls comes together.

[jonbry123]

Most tangs in the family Zebrasoma would probably be ok depending how much rock you have. Others in the family Naso would definitely out grow that size tank as they are open water fish. Any of the dwarf angels would work but any in the Pomacanthus group would eventually outgrow that tank as well. If you can afford a larger tank jump to a 220 or 300 as they would be fine in that size.

[skraj011]

I did the same exact thing ~ 6 months ago. My setup is: 125 reef ready 6' to a 55 gallon sump. The sump has some rock and an octopus needlewheel skimmer. Eheim 1260 return pump. 2 200 watt jager heaters. icecap ballast wired to 2 5' High output t5's on the display. ~100lb marco dry rock and caribsea sugar white sand. GFO from bulk reef supply in 20/20 via aqua poly reactor. no refugium yet, but I'm going to, it can only help and if nothing else is interesting. right now I have 4 wrasses (flame, solar, filamented, laboutei), potters angel, small swallowtail angel, small blue jaw trigger, small saddleback butterfly, 2 firefish, 1 diamond goby. Clean up crew is brittle star, snails, & tigertail cucumber.

things I've learned.
1. GFO is good for keeping phosphates down. the polyreactor's pump stinks (it broke after 2 weeks). I replaced it with a minijet 606. buy a BRS reactor instead.
2. originally had a quietone 3000 return pump, it stinks as well, doesn't re-start after power outage which is a big problem. Replaced it with a eheim 1260 which is amazing and silent.
3. i was originally unhappy with the octopus skimmer because it was very noisy, but then I raised the water level in the sump and the noise is much much less, now I'm happy with it. It's possible that the noise had nothing to do with the water level, but rather just needed time to "break in."
4. Don't keep the lights on all the time, it will encourage algae growth.
5. Diamond gobies are amazing at turning over the sand and keeping it clean.
6. When you put fish in your tank it helps to put them in some kind of acclimation container within the tank first, so they don't get too stressed out immediately by the other fish. I use a clear plastic small animal container with a topic that I bought from petco.
7. rearranging the rocks when new fish are introduced appears to be VERY helpful at decreasing aggression
8. keep the top of the tank completely closed if you are going to keep wrasses