In March of 2005 we wanted to upgrade to a bigger tank, so we got a 75 gallon with 2 250 watt Metal Halides for lighting. After about seven months of having this tank up it occured to my Dad that we could upgrade again to a 125 gallon setup without having to get additional lighting, protein skimmer, etc. or live rock as we already had about 120 lbs. He was wrong on the skimmer as he did get a bigger one. What he really was thinking was the amount of electricty being used would be about the same for the 125 as a 75 as most of the equipment would be the same.
So in Sept. of 2007 we set up a 125. It was drilled on one end thinking we might set it up to be viewed from both sides. Although it is not that way now, it's possibe that could still happen someday. We recently upgraded from a 29 gal sump to the 33L tank we used to have setup. Much more room and easier access to skimmer etc. Upgraded to a ASM G2, which is much better than the Excailbur skimmer we had. We also recently got a phosban reactor to hopefully have a phosate reading of 0. Another recent happening is that we have removed almost all the sand during the last 5 weeks in weekly water changes. During Febuary 07, we have been thinking about doing the Barebottom thing for a while after seeing all the great looking tanks on the online forums. We saw a friend's 45 gallon tank that went to barebottom and started removing the sand a couple of days later. All seems good so far.
