Nice little tank and great photos :-) I can see your soft corals growing like mad soon and overtaking the 7 gal. Too bad there wasn't a way to keep the 7 going along with the 40 cube. Maybe if you got some slow growing sps corals, you could keep the 7 going ;-) BTW, where are you getting the 40 cube?
I've had all sizes of tanks in our house in Laurier from a 5, 10, 15, 33, 75 and to finally the 180. The 180 was the best one we had up until setting up the 7 gal bowfront. By now we've learned all kinds of things like how to get rid of cyano, not to put in calurpa or other small-leafed macroalgae(which spreads like h*ll under upgraded lighting), and that weekly maintenance is the way to go to keep all kinds of problems from getting a toehold.
Now that we live in a smaller abode and now that our funds are going to be a little tighter for the next year or so, I've come to believe the 7 gal is the just the perfect sized tank for us. Plus maintenance on a 7 gal takes less time and money (ie, for salt) that on a larger tank. One pail of salt will last us almost forever :-)
I continued reading the thread at the url you sent and was interested in the AC 500 idea. Not that I'd add one because we view our tank from the front in the dining and living rooms and from the back in the kitchen. The AC 500 would obscure the view of the tank from the kitchen and make maintenance a little harder. But maybe an AC 300 might be another option ... Hmmm ....
Thanks for the url and for the discussion.
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