Your right David, I may as well just add a center chamber and baffles. It will be easier to do it now then later.
I added 1- 30# bag of agramax sand to the tank. It gave me about 1" of sand on the bottom of the tank. Because I have a cat that thinks all sand is his litter box, I had to cover the sand with 1" of saltwater. Silly cat. I have 60# of live sand arriving Wednesday that I will add to the tank. On top of that I will add some pink sand. It is so pretty.Very light pink sand with Hot pink speckles in it. I will try to get a pic of it to post in the next day or two. I'm not sure if it will show up. It is Natures Ocean "Samoa Pink" . It's a little pricy (the pink stuff) so I will only add it as the top layer. I know it will get mixed in eventually, but I can't afford to do the entire sand bed with it. I'll be ordering the LR next week, along with rubble rock for the sump. Then it will just cycle for a few months. I'm cycling with live rock only. If I don't seem to be getting a decent cycle from the LR alone, I will add the raw shrimp or 2. I have all the time in the world to get this tank going. I don't have any livestock for it yet so there is no hurry. Boy....that's a nice change from my usual tank setups, lol.
I'm wondering about lighting on this tank though. I have 2 lighting fixtures. Both have 192w PC. (384w total) Would 1 fixture be enough for all of the macros or should I put 2 of them on there? So far I don't plan to have any corals in the tank. None, zero, zip, nada. Just macros.
I plan to use a Mag 9.5 for a return pump. That will be roughly 12X the tank volume. I will use 2 spray bars. 1 at the top of the tank and 1 - 3/4 of the way down. I may change that depending on how the flow is in the tank.
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