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Thank you everyone
In other news, I made the next step into becoming a full reefer. I left the RODI on overnight and had a nice little flood in the bathroom.
Good and thanks for the reminder for this thread LOL.
Thigns are going well but slow. The electricity has been run and the plumber is putting in the slop sink this weekend. After that, then the sheet rock and tables are installed and the fun can begin. I got the sump (thanks to Ultra corals)...
This is a rally tough question to answer as all the salts are a little different and everyone will swear with their brand. There have been studies done on the salts but none really recently.
For me, I have used Aquavitro for the last 2 or so years and like it.
The point of a media reactor is to have as much contact with the media as possible when water goes through. They were basically replaced just filter bags as means of passive filtration in the aquarium. With the reactor the water is forced through the media which makes it much more efficient...
At that size, buy a calcium reactor so you don't have to worry about the dosing pumps.
For the reactors go with the MR xl or monsters:
http://nextreef.com/mr1reactors.html
I will be running mp40s in my 210, just multiple ones.
With the HQI bulb you will be able to keep just about any coral out there. You can choose the bulb that goes in there which give you some control over the "vibrance" of the coral so that is not really an issue. The issue is the heat, what is the ambient temp of the room?
To add on to what NikkiT said, bangaii's are not schooling or shoaling fish. When they are juveniles they hang out in groups but as they get older and bigger they will split off. If you don't seperate them out, you will have some violence and probably death.