nbd13
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Hi i am Nick Doman i am a 17 year old high school senior thats on the baseball team!
anyway i wanted to say hi! and give you a little back ground on my self and my current system,
i original got into the hobby with a 70 gallon mixed reef. A marine biologist got me hooked on SPS, but i sold that tank after about a good 9 months of it being setup! i learned many things for that setup! after about 4-5 months of being out of the hobby i decided i wanted to get back into since i was goign to have to have surgrey on my right shoulder (torn rotator cuff and labrium) yeha i know i am way to young for having this surgrey, but i guess thats what you get from playing baseball your whole life!
i belong to reefcentral and michiganreefers i have been in the hobby about 2.5-3 years now! i wanted to join this site becasue its a nice quite site with alot of experience and its different from RC because you have a smaller community! and plus o2manyfishes skimmer thread is here now!
So i got a used 180 gallon tank with a stand and canopy. the tank has 2 holes that accomidate a 1 inch bulkhead. there is a hole in each back upper corner, so no overflow box is in the tank. so one hole is on the left upper side of the back peice of glass and another hole on the right side. i did not like the canopy it was not tall enough, so i built my own. it was the first time i have ever built something! i did it all by my self and i then reniforced the stand! i got the tank last may and then proceded to save money to do it right! i got a 70 gallon sump from John B. here in MI most of you know him from his recent TOTM. anyway i then went ahead and got 4 reef optic III 250w DE pendants w/ 14k hamiltons, i then proceeded to get a euro-reef cs8-2 (just a temporary skimmer until i get my Deltec AP850 this summer) i then went ahead and got all the misc stuff like a medusa dual controller i am using 2 250w ebo jager heaters and about 6-7 fans fro cooling (which work VERY well) i then got 2 1" sea swirls to run the euturn off of. then i got my reutrn pump a mag 12, i might upgrade to the mag 18 if my overflows can handle the flow! i also got a reef fanactic pH montior. i am also running a phospan rector with 150grams of phosban media. and am running carbon also!
i then ordered 250 pounds of tonga LR from Dr.macs what a GREAT decesion! it was great LR! i also got another 10 pounds from the LFS to fill the sump/fuge area in my sump. i still need about another 20 pounds to put down there to fill it up, i will then get some chetamorpha macro algae. my sump area is lit by PC lighting i think 2 65 watt bulbs. also have a 100 gpd RO/DI unit from aquasafe got it form ebay after doing alot of research, it takes my water from 345 TDS down to 0 TDS!! i am very impressed! i also have a pin point wireless therometer too!
there is about 220 pounds of LR in the main tank and then there will be about 60 in the fuge area of my sump when it is all said and done! i then put a shallow layer of arganite around the LR there is egg crate on the bottom of the WHOLE tank. i then put rock in, put sand around it, then filled it up! the rock has cycled it has been in for 3 weeks now! i have an order of 100 cerith snails and 100 astera/turbo sanils coming from keyscritters on tuesday! i will then wait and see what the tank tells me, as to when it will be ready for live stock and go from there!
new equipment i am getting, i am getting a deltec calium reactor and kalk stirrer for christmas. a PF 500 calcium recator and a KM 500 kalk stirrer. i am also getting from my girlfriend a tunze osmolator universal for top off! i also ordered 2 tunze streams 6100 and a new muti controller i shoudl have those next week so pardon the maxijet 1200s in the tank now! i cant wait to see these in acition along with that new muti controller thats sposed to be great! thats all the equipment so far!
any way thats basically my setup, pics are to follow! let me know what you think! this tank will be ALL SPS and about 3-5 clams!
i will post shots throught my tanks progress also!
anyway any question just let me know!
thanks!
Nick
anyway i wanted to say hi! and give you a little back ground on my self and my current system,
i original got into the hobby with a 70 gallon mixed reef. A marine biologist got me hooked on SPS, but i sold that tank after about a good 9 months of it being setup! i learned many things for that setup! after about 4-5 months of being out of the hobby i decided i wanted to get back into since i was goign to have to have surgrey on my right shoulder (torn rotator cuff and labrium) yeha i know i am way to young for having this surgrey, but i guess thats what you get from playing baseball your whole life!
i belong to reefcentral and michiganreefers i have been in the hobby about 2.5-3 years now! i wanted to join this site becasue its a nice quite site with alot of experience and its different from RC because you have a smaller community! and plus o2manyfishes skimmer thread is here now!
So i got a used 180 gallon tank with a stand and canopy. the tank has 2 holes that accomidate a 1 inch bulkhead. there is a hole in each back upper corner, so no overflow box is in the tank. so one hole is on the left upper side of the back peice of glass and another hole on the right side. i did not like the canopy it was not tall enough, so i built my own. it was the first time i have ever built something! i did it all by my self and i then reniforced the stand! i got the tank last may and then proceded to save money to do it right! i got a 70 gallon sump from John B. here in MI most of you know him from his recent TOTM. anyway i then went ahead and got 4 reef optic III 250w DE pendants w/ 14k hamiltons, i then proceeded to get a euro-reef cs8-2 (just a temporary skimmer until i get my Deltec AP850 this summer) i then went ahead and got all the misc stuff like a medusa dual controller i am using 2 250w ebo jager heaters and about 6-7 fans fro cooling (which work VERY well) i then got 2 1" sea swirls to run the euturn off of. then i got my reutrn pump a mag 12, i might upgrade to the mag 18 if my overflows can handle the flow! i also got a reef fanactic pH montior. i am also running a phospan rector with 150grams of phosban media. and am running carbon also!
i then ordered 250 pounds of tonga LR from Dr.macs what a GREAT decesion! it was great LR! i also got another 10 pounds from the LFS to fill the sump/fuge area in my sump. i still need about another 20 pounds to put down there to fill it up, i will then get some chetamorpha macro algae. my sump area is lit by PC lighting i think 2 65 watt bulbs. also have a 100 gpd RO/DI unit from aquasafe got it form ebay after doing alot of research, it takes my water from 345 TDS down to 0 TDS!! i am very impressed! i also have a pin point wireless therometer too!
there is about 220 pounds of LR in the main tank and then there will be about 60 in the fuge area of my sump when it is all said and done! i then put a shallow layer of arganite around the LR there is egg crate on the bottom of the WHOLE tank. i then put rock in, put sand around it, then filled it up! the rock has cycled it has been in for 3 weeks now! i have an order of 100 cerith snails and 100 astera/turbo sanils coming from keyscritters on tuesday! i will then wait and see what the tank tells me, as to when it will be ready for live stock and go from there!
new equipment i am getting, i am getting a deltec calium reactor and kalk stirrer for christmas. a PF 500 calcium recator and a KM 500 kalk stirrer. i am also getting from my girlfriend a tunze osmolator universal for top off! i also ordered 2 tunze streams 6100 and a new muti controller i shoudl have those next week so pardon the maxijet 1200s in the tank now! i cant wait to see these in acition along with that new muti controller thats sposed to be great! thats all the equipment so far!
any way thats basically my setup, pics are to follow! let me know what you think! this tank will be ALL SPS and about 3-5 clams!
i will post shots throught my tanks progress also!
anyway any question just let me know!
thanks!
Nick
