ready to upgrade

[pablossom]

Hello,
I have been doing saltwater for about 2 yrs and am ready to upgrade to a 125 gallon with sump. What are your suggestions for have to have equipment? What has made your life aka tank easier to maintain? Lights, protein skimmer,etc? Just in general...doing a reef tank
Pam

[nlgill13]

What do you want to keep? FOWLR, Softies, LPS, SPS, Mixed Reef?

Think about what you have already that can be transferred or reused in your new tank: Refractometer, Test Kits, smaller return pumps for reactors, cleaning supplies, foods, etc.

As for lighting, what are you interested in? T5, LED, MH, or a combination?

You probably want a skimmer that is rated for about double (2x) the tank volume...you dont want a skimmer to big because it will run inefficiently (like rated 3x-4x water volume).

[nlgill13]

Also things to consider:
Reactor/s
Controller
Dosing pumps
ATO

[pablossom]

mixed reef, Interested in LED. Can you tell me about wave boxes?

[EricBuzz]

I love my vortech wave makers. No trouble with them at all.

[fijisrfr]

Ato,ato,ato!!!!!!!!