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Unread 10/11/2017, 02:36 PM   #12
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There's no reason a tank can't be set up at coffee-table height, and put the sump and support equipment in an adjacent piece of furniture like a buffet or armoire with doors and lighting (so you can see what you're doing.) Just be sure to use right-angle legs on the thing, because angles don't take fishtank weight as well as direct support. Your biggest problem would be water changes, but we put a topoff bucket in an under-stand space, with a Hydor Smart top off, and that means we just tip the bucket to fill it. With a furniture dolly to support an adjacent fill-bucket, you could use a small pump to move water into the topoff, the same pump to move 10% of water down from the tank to the rolling bucket, and have your waterchange and topoff handled by the same set of equipment. I'd advise softie coral or lps corals as types, because they're less cranky and demanding --- sps is the bleeding edge of the hobby and prone to problems, but whatever you want, go for it.
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Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low.

Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.
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