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With Dr. Reef, it can just take longer depending on what your order. If he has it in stock, in can be quick but others he has to order so that takes time and then he fully quarantines it so it can take months. I have not pulled the trigger with him, but it is intriguing to have fully QTed fish...
What return pump are you running and what is the powerhead in the back? As others have said, you don't need a ton of flow with LPS, you can also use your rockwork to create zone of higher flow and lower flow.
To compare and contrast this to RAP, Frag Market is more like an old school frag swap. Meaning that some vendors but also a lot of basement type fold come out and setup tables to sell corals. As eric said, they don't charge a lot for booths so you get a massive variety of people selling and...
I did years ago, and you could get some good deals but that has kind of evened out. A lot of the vendors just do their auctions on their own webpages.
Good for Kenny, I didn't realize so many other shops used ReefnBid.
Given the shallowness of the tank, I think you are good with your lights, you may just have to adjust the placement of the corals and rocks, like build the rock under the lights for the sps and place the lower light corals around the edges. With that size tank, you have a lot of options. As...
It sounds like you are keeping the long tank in the basement and just converting it over to a reef tank. Usually the biggest difference in FOWLR to reef it lighting, so what is your plan for lighting the reef tank? Skimmer is common for both systems so that is not an issue for you. The next...
Also keep us update. We did a little patchwork for now, we got some locally at Petco in Brick and ordered some from NYAquatic as part of a larger order. We will see if we need to fill in the gaps.