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Originally Posted by olharleyman
...So now that I have decided to take on the saltwater world I am clueless but willing to learn and do what is nessacery to build my tank to what I want ...
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Welcome to RAG!
The most important item you need right now is information on salt water reef systems. I can not over emphasize this enough. Do not think that you can get all this from reading a few web pages on the net. While the net is great for something very specific, it does rather poorly at providing background information that is required for salt water systems.
What you want to do is to obtaining several good books on state of the are salt water reef systems. Two excellent ones to start with are
The New Marine Aquarium by Michael S. Paletta and
The Conscientious Marine Aquarist by Robert M. Fenner.
At this point you need good, solid, basic information. Read, study, and understand the material, and at that point you'll be able to ask intelligent questions and you will also have a reasonable chance of success.
Just about the worst think you can do is to run out and buy a lot of equipment, before you even know what you need. This approach almost always results is a tank of very dead fish, and a lot of money wasted.
Once you have the basics down, your next step will be to figure out want you want to keep. This will govern equipment selections to some extent.
Lastly, before you purchase anything, make sure you can afford the hobby. Like anything else, this hobby can get very expensive, very fast. Generally you will spend between $35 and $50 per gallon of water in the main display tank. This means that you will spend between $3500 and $5000 by the time you have that 110 gal tank set up.
Good luck with your new venture!