Top 5..or 10... MUST haves for a reef tank

[gobytron]

1. Tank
2. More money than sense
3. Tunze Wavebox
4. ATO
5. a cool pseudonym

[lorenz0]

sanity

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

sanity

you mean Salinity right?

I'd say if Sanity is on your top 5....you wont last long...

[lorenz0]

Oh no, I ment sanity

By than I mean the ability to control yourself when something happens. Like looking into your tank and all your sps has RTN.... grrrr

[amoreira]

Sanity, i.e. being able to put yourself back together again when the tank floods your expensive hardwood floors, or the tank crashes killing all your SPS you've nurtured from frags for the past 5 years and that breeding pair of rare fairy wrasses, etc..

[Lampshade]

Good heater, ATO, good skimmer, a good LFS to talk about fish at, and msot importantly....TIME, too busy to clean a tank, you end up with lots of time cleaning up the chaos of hair algae, or cyno, or well... anything.

[cale262]

Must haves IMO...

1. Controller
2. Good light
3. Skimmer
4. Carbon reactor
5. Controllable power heads