Barbie
Fishaholic
OK, so every time I set up a reef tank I intend to take pictures and update constantly to show growth and the changes it goes through. I have good intentions, but it just doesn't usually happen for some reason :badgrin:. I've set the 120 up in our basement as the reef for me to move most of my SPS corals into and I did manage to take pictures of it with no corals, and as I've started filling it. Now if I can just keep with it!
This was the tank the day before I started adding corals on 8/23/08. (You can click on the pics for larger versions.)
This was it the next day with SPS frags I had purchased from Brandy that they so kindly held for longer than I expected to need them to!
This is it today, after I added the contents of my 40 breeder SPS tank.
It has a single 3/4 inch seaswirl on a Pan World return pump for about 1200 gph. I added two eductors to the outer returns pointed down to keep stuff from settling and to give cross current to the sea swirl. I might add a Koralia on the back to drive straight down to keep detritus from settling, if it's needed. There is about 160 pounds of live rock, bare bottom set on tonga branch so I can blow out any detritus or siphon it out. The lighting is 2 250 watt HQI 20k halides, with 2 54 watt actinic HOT5. There is a 25 gallon refugium that will be plumbed into the system this week, along with a Euro Reef recirculating protein skimmer. It has a small Calcium Reactor running at the moment to test drive it, and eventually it will have an auto top off set to run on a rheostat and timer to dose through a kalk reactor.
The only fish in it so far are a pair of black ocellaris clowns. I'm wrestling over ventralis anthias or purple tile gobies. I had my heart set on the anthias until I got in those gobies. If they weren't so suicidal I'd have already brought them home! The mandarin from the 75 gallon is going to get a girlfriend, and the blue assessor is going to go in there with a shrimp assortment at some point.
Please be gentle. I can't believe I've been able to get as much done on it as I have this summer. I'm very happy with the layout. Once I add the clams and decide if any of the duncans or acans are going into this tank or not, I should be totally done messing with it. It will be neat to watch it grow, I hope. If I can only keep updating the pictures as it goes!
Barbie
This was the tank the day before I started adding corals on 8/23/08. (You can click on the pics for larger versions.)
This was it the next day with SPS frags I had purchased from Brandy that they so kindly held for longer than I expected to need them to!
This is it today, after I added the contents of my 40 breeder SPS tank.
It has a single 3/4 inch seaswirl on a Pan World return pump for about 1200 gph. I added two eductors to the outer returns pointed down to keep stuff from settling and to give cross current to the sea swirl. I might add a Koralia on the back to drive straight down to keep detritus from settling, if it's needed. There is about 160 pounds of live rock, bare bottom set on tonga branch so I can blow out any detritus or siphon it out. The lighting is 2 250 watt HQI 20k halides, with 2 54 watt actinic HOT5. There is a 25 gallon refugium that will be plumbed into the system this week, along with a Euro Reef recirculating protein skimmer. It has a small Calcium Reactor running at the moment to test drive it, and eventually it will have an auto top off set to run on a rheostat and timer to dose through a kalk reactor.
The only fish in it so far are a pair of black ocellaris clowns. I'm wrestling over ventralis anthias or purple tile gobies. I had my heart set on the anthias until I got in those gobies. If they weren't so suicidal I'd have already brought them home! The mandarin from the 75 gallon is going to get a girlfriend, and the blue assessor is going to go in there with a shrimp assortment at some point.
Please be gentle. I can't believe I've been able to get as much done on it as I have this summer. I'm very happy with the layout. Once I add the clams and decide if any of the duncans or acans are going into this tank or not, I should be totally done messing with it. It will be neat to watch it grow, I hope. If I can only keep updating the pictures as it goes!
Barbie
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