240 Planning Stages

[Parker]

I'm thinking / hoping I won't need a chiller. My tank will be in the basement which stays pretty cool through out the year. With my existing tanks my heaters run pretty hard to keep the temps up. With that said I'll have to wait and see when things are up and running, who knows how much heat 3 pumps and 4 MH's will generate.

I have approx 75 - 80 lbs of live rock now and will be using base rock the rest of the way.

I have a lot of time to make changes & substatutions, the tank will be the last thing completed. I can't imagine it going well if the tank was up before the kitchen was completed!

[niloc16]

i would go with 2 300w jager heater or 2 250w jager heaters. personally i would say do not go with the CL. i had one for a month and took it off because of noise. i ended up going with tunzes and wavyseas which is a 1000 times better flow IMO. for an 8 ft tank i would think of going with 4 MH. my tank is 7 ft and i run 3 lumen max 400W and having them spread out evenly i'm getting a little bit of shadows at the top, so with an extra foot the 4th MH would be good. what is the reason for the back not being accessible? is it just against a wall? if that is the reason i would strongly suggest leaving it away from the wall about 8" or so because there will always be something fall behind there and if there is NO room for you to reach in, well you get the point. sound like youre doing alot of planning though which is good