What to do???

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Cubzbiggestfan

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I am in the process of getting a 125 ....although I don't have it in hand yet and the deal isn't finalized but I am looking ahead. I love reef tanks but feel I might be putting a little too much money into keeping it as an sps. I also love some nice fish that are not reef ready. My dilemma comes on whether I should do fowlr or reef. I don't know what to do? Give me some ideas.

Also I am in need of salt, refractometer, rodi, test kits (all of them), if anyone has these for a good price please let me know. Thank you


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I'm on the fence as well. With the 180 I want so many beautiful fish I can't keep in a reef, but I have so many beautiful anemones and zoa/palys I really dont want to sell off. It's nice thou having lower maintenance stuff like that where spot on parameters aren't a necessity, but you still can have beautiful corals and inverts.
 
I'm in the process of going back to a smaller reef and going fish only on the big tank will maybe this in some softies and what not but I'm with ya a big reef can be expensive but on the other hand it's huge lol I'm a fence walker too
 
I think anything bigger than 120 gal. requires a lot of work to maintain SPS reef.(not to mention $$$$$.). I was on the fence of going with FOWLR in my 120 but decided to do SPS one more time,but if I had a bigger tank I would do fish only.There are so many beautiful fish that are not reef safe that you can keep in FOWLR. I love angels and butterflyfish.This way you can get the fish you really want without worrying about your corals.
 
You can always start it as FOWLR and then later upgrade lights/dosers/skimmers if you get the SPS bug. That way you can save money initially and spend in incremental amounts later.

PS - Premium Aquatics is a good source with decent prices, and normal shipping gets here next day.
 
Again, welcome back! I still have your 2 kits that I picked up from you and have yet to use them, haha...I like Bry's recommendation of starting FOWLR and transitioning if you feel the need. Fish move just as fast as coral here, so if you can't keep something with the coral you want, the community will help you out :)
 
You still want a good skimmer for a FO tank. there are plenty of cool corals that don't need the precision of SPS I've got a HUGE finger leather I'm looking to frag... ;)
 
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