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welcome back to the hobby!
I think LEDs are just the way to go.
The spectrum stability and control.
The lack of heat being put into the water
the electricity savings
on the skimmer... well I'm still running one with a big pump and venturi valve. idk. Works well.
My problem is always mechanical filtration.
I dont use any right now. I have bare bottom so I vacuum it when I do water changes, but I could prob do better here. I just never manage to keep up with the maintenance of these filters, so I don't think I'm helping my water quality at all doing that and have always kept an eye out for something next gen with no mess super simple maintenance.
For water movement I have a couple of maxspect gyre's (240G aquarium). They're fantastic.
I just recently bought a pretty inexpensive salinity and pH combination monitor (the 2 things I like to always have an eye on) and it's great. Nothing fancy. No iphone app.. Just a digital screen that I can look at. I've been doing checks on it's accuracy and I'm surprised that it's been staying on point. Salinity monitors used to drift after a while due to quite salt buildup on the probe.
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