Wayne Sallee wrote:

Also instead of getting a wet dry filter, you should have put a sump in
there, as a wet dry filter will reduce your denitrification

Again, there's pros and cons to both sides of the wet/dry vs sump
discussion. I bought what I could afford, based on the advice of several
professionals as well as numerous reference materials and will see how
it works.

and you would have been beter off to have gotten more lighting over the tank. I
would have gone with a double mh 175 wat giving it a total of 350 wats
of light over 65 gallons being 5.38 wats of light per gallon.


True, more light is usually better. Unless of course you're shooting for
a deeper water reef as opposed to a shallow water - which is what I'm
attempting to do.

Thanks for your suggestions and commentary.

mark h