Possible frag tank?? Too much??

Just emptied and cleaned up my 50 fresh water tank with the intention of tearing down completely. Now that it's empty and cleaned up, I'm having second thoughts.

Although a little excessive, I was contemplating a grow out tank and maybe even a bubble tip propagation setup. Something to help the cost of new eye candy in the future for my 90 display. I'm tired of it looking empty and being told I can't spend anymore money from the ol' ball and chain

Here's what the freshwater tank details were.
Sumpless 50 gallon tank
Canister Filter
2 t8 lighting units (stock with tank)
1 300w LED lighting unit
And then the obvious, powerhead/wavemaker, heater, live rock etc etc which I have extra of everything laying around.

Thoughts / Suggestions on making it a grow out tank with above equipment? I do have a HOB skimmer but I'd prefer not to use it if possible.
Thanks!

 

Well she's up and running! Waiting for the temp to get up there so I can throw in a huge chunk of rock from main tank for a quicker cycle (hopefully). I'll also be throwing in 4 sponge filters I've had in my sump the paste few weeks. Really supercharge the cycling process (again, hopefully).

Said chunk of rock has a massive amount of red shrooms on it. They are pretty much like cockroaches anyways, so why not. I have three other sm-md chunks of dry rock in there (total of ~25#). Will that be sufficient?

I also have a 10"x4" shallow container with a 1" sand bed for any future substrate corals or rock nems that I want to throw in.

What am I missing? What else should I do?




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Unfortunately they can't be tied together. If I end up moving this year, then I will do one large build where everything is plumbed together and have a fish room and the whole shebang. But that's a whole other deal . My current house and set up does not really allow for that kind of build.