I was in a small pet store today. These guys deal with all sorts of animals but they have a small wall dealing with saltwater. I've been in several times and have gotten pretty disgusted due to the fact that these people have no clue what they are doing. I'm new to the hobby but am learning as much as I can so I engaged the owner in conversation. After about two hours of me talking he basically offered me a job taking care of this section of his shop. His wall consists of about 20 display tanks ranging from 20-55 gallons. All of them are running crushed coral and UGFs with very little circulation. I told the guy to come up with a budget for me to work with and I'd square him away. The first thing I'm going to do is remove all the crushed coral and UGF's and thoroughly clean his tanks out. Then I'm going to either order a bunch of southdown for substrate or just go bare bottom. Which would you guys do? I'm going to put a small heater and a mj 1200 in each tank but I don't know what the best way to filter these tanks would be. I thought about small hang on cartridge filters but don't know if this is the best solution. Nothing is plumbed together and there isn't room to do it so that might be my only option. I will have two dedicated 55 gallons for q tanks and a 75 reef ready to make him a nice display of lps and softies. His lighting is all flourescent over the wall but for fish only this is fine. I will have to order some lighting for the 75 but this shouldn't be a problem. I'm about to have a lot of responsibility over this section and I could use some advice from you guys on the best way to take care of it. I have a head full of ideas but have never had this much water to deal with before. LMK your thoughts and ideas.
oh yeah. He only has about $600 in total sales each month for the SW section so it's not like I'm dealing with crazy amounts of animals. I'd like to double or triple his monthly sales so whatever insight you guys have I'd appreciate it. I'm looking at this as a precursor to me owning my own shop one day.



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