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I picked up my new tank today, an Oceanic 58g (36x18x21). It will sit on a freshly built stand. I will be transferring all of the equipment from my current tank and will be picking up a few goodies this week. I am waiting for the pin-wheel on my Euro-reef RS-80 to come back from Reef Dynamics on warranty.

I made the mistake of starting my first tank with crushed coral. I will be using 40 lbs. of Seaflor special grade sand for the new tank. The 40 breeder I have set up now is using 2 koralia 3's for flow and I think they are doing a good job. With the added height of the 58g I figured that an upgrade was necessary. I took the plunge and a brand new Vortech mp40w is on its way! I did a lot of research on this purchase but for me, I don't think that the new Ecosmart driver is worth the extra 60 bucks. Maybe later down the road.

I am really excited to try this pump out. On the WOW factor, I am hoping that this will be up there with my upgrade from pc's to a Lumenmax 3 250w DE pendant. For trace elements I am currently running a kalkwasser reactor to top off. I think that soon I will add a 2 part dosing system. I am not sure if I will keep the kalkwasser reactor running though.

For prosperity's sake, here are a couple pictures of my current set up before I tear it all down. This was set up on May 4, 2009 almost a year ago to the day I will put some pics together of the new set up and try to document the transfer.