90 Gallon

[petro101]

I just bought a used oceanic 90 gallon with stand for a pretty amazing deal and would like some opinions on the setup. 

I've always had bad luck with canister style filtration and i'm always paranoid about leaks and flooding. I was thinking about getting 2X Aquaclear 110 for filtration and using my fluval Q2 air pump. Will this be enough oxygen for my fish to thrive? Wondering if i should add a powerhead or another airpump. I really wanted to get the whole wet/dry and actually bought a small used one but like i said...paranoid with siphon, overflow and power outages. Really don't want to worry about that stuff. My stock will end up looking like this...

1X - Petrochromis trewavasae (yep 1, going to try and grow him out to max size)
6X Filament Barbs
1X Dwarf giraffe catfish
1X Synodontis multipunctatus
6X Multies shell dwellers
2X goby cichlids

[petro101]

Also to add...

I have 2X aquaclear 70 on my 60 gallon tank, but the rim on the 90 gallon is too large for them to hang on. I was going to take 45 gallons of water from the 60 gallon tank and put it in the 90 gallon tank. Also I plan on putting the used cycled media (biomax/sponges) from the aquaclear 70s and use them in the aquaclear 110 for my 90 gallon. Doing this will result in me putting the current fish that are in my 60 gallon tank immediately in the 90 gallon tank. Does this sound too risky? I was thinking since i'm using quite a lot of cycled media from the aquaclear 70s that the balance would be fine. What do you guys think?

[finadic]

That sounds like it should work, and you might want to add some API Quickstart to give it a boost.

[brianyelick]

I agree you should be fine. I always place a cycled / used filter on the new tank snd I always run sponge filters in my tanks so I'll take one out and squeeze it out into the new tank instant cycle I have added wild caught groups to new tank with this method and never had an issue

[petro101]

ahh forgot about the quickstart, i'll pick some up. Thanks guys. Petro is quite feisty...not so sure he really wants to move out! was doing a water change and wanted to record how mad he gets when anything enters his cave lol.

[petro101]

finally got my new 90 setup. Petro seems pretty happy!

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Nice! I had a really nice group of Trews at one point.

[mikevxr]

Very nice👍

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Yeah looks great. I love me some shellies. I have a wild pair of Multi's from Mbita if memory serves me correctly.

[petro101]

Thanks guys. I ended up finding a really good deal on a eshopps wd-150 so it looks like I'll be replacing one of my aquaclear 110 with the wet/dry overflow box setup. It's the eshopps pf-1000. I bought a lifegard 4000 pump rated for 1022gph but calculating the height it looks like I'll be around 580-600 gph actually entering the tank. That should be plenty of oxygen? I also have another aquaclear 110 so my total flow is
Sump: 600gph
Aquaclear: 500gph
Wondering if I need to keep my fluval Q2 air pump operating...or is it necessary still?