If you could do it all over...

[asylumdown]

What would you do differently?

10 months in and there's things about my tank I wish I could change, and if I were to somehow be blessed with the opportunity to build another tank in to another house, I'd make some major design changes.

#1 - no internal overflow boxes. Man I hate them. They cause serious channeling of the vortechs and they take up so much bloody space.

#2 - longer tank. If you're in for a penny, you may as well be in for a pound

#3 - rigid quarantine procedure from day one. No making excuses about how much space and time it takes up. Getting something out of a tank is about 9 million times harder than keeping it out in the first place.

#4 - slightly different sump design. Right now micro bubbles can easily make it in to the display tank. oops.