150 to 210 gallon reef finally complete!!!

jamiehag

jamiehag

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After 2 years in this hobby my wife and I have upgraded our 150 gallon to a 210 all-glass reef ready tank, many weeks in planning, months of reading these boards and a long 3 day conversion weekend and here’s the results, by the way if anyone is curious we have nearly 6K into this setup and both of us at 23 just starting out was a big financial strain,
equipment list
210 reef reedy all-glass aquarium w/ stand
72" coralife aqualight pro (3 150 watt 10k HQI MH, 4 96 watt actinic PC & 5 lunar lights)
1 UPS power backup capable of running 1 of the 2 return pumps for about an hour.
2 newtek dual digital timer power strips (went through 2 of the coralife dual timers with both failing needless to say I had enough of them)
2 350 watt pro heat II heaters with digital water temp indicator
1 Tunze wavebox (this thing is amazing at making natural water current!!!)
1 aqua c 180 skimmer
3 quiet one 3000 pumps one for skimmer 2 for returns.
custom built 65 gallon sump with 5 gallon auto kalk tank and small fuge built in under stand.
1 Kent marine RO/DI hi-S maxxima 60GPD
And now the livestock
1 Naso tang (Wilma)
1 blue tang (Dori)
1 yellow tang
1 copper band butterfly (Pinocchio)
1 flame angel (flame)
mated pair of maroon clowns
mated pair of banggi cardinals
6 blue/green chromis
1 fire fish goby
1 orange spotted diamond goby
1 bubble tip anemone
1 decorator crab
12 electric blue crabs
1 queen conch
many scarlet, zebra, blue legged and red legged crabs
to many snails to list
and many assorted corals
Light cycle pics
dawn-dusk 11:00am-9:00pm
10k Daylignt 12:30pm-7:30pm
moonlights/fuge lighting 9:00pm-11:00-am
We would appreciate any comments and or suggestions on our setup, and THANKS for all the help and great info along the way we have learned a great deal from these boards


 
jamiehag

jamiehag

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Originally Posted by hot883
Very nice indeed! What ya gonna do with that EXTRA 150 ya got laying around?
All the other equipment including the tank has been sold.... sorry
 
misfit

misfit

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I just did the same tank
heres whats in mine
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/177404/210-diy-stand-canopy-done
1 aga model 4 sump
1 mag drive 18
1 aqua medic protien skimmer
1 9 watt uv sterilizer coralife
1 phosban reactor 150 (waiting for my new one, just bought it and it leaked)
3 250 watt MH DE ushio 10000 k with icecap ballasts
4 65k coralife actinics i need to upgrade
4 3/4 watt coralife moonlights
1 400 watt heater
Heres my STock list
1 pacific blue tang
1 yellow tang
1 powder blue tang
1 coral beauty
2 green cromis
1 sissor tail gobie
1 diamond gobie
1 mandran fish
1 dotty back
1 blue devil(with one eye)
2 perc clowns
1 maroon clown
1 P.J cardinal
1 humbug damsil
1 six line wrasse
2 condi anemonies
1 bubbble tip
golden polyps
1 big green carpet
1 coral banded shrimp
3 serpent stars
2 sally light foot crabs
1 maxim clam
1 dersa clam
blue stripe mushroom polpys
red mushrooms
purple mushrooms
trumpet coral
sun coral
hammer coral
frogsprawn coral
red closed brain
green open brain
ricordia coral
chubby finger leather
plate leather coral
Birdsnest frag coral
mycidia frag coral
green star polyps
snails lots
300 lbs of LR
I think thats It i might have forgot a piece or 2
 
jamiehag

jamiehag

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Originally Posted by misfit
I just did the same tank
heres whats in mine
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/177404/210-diy-stand-canopy-done
yes I chated with you a bit when you first got the tank and sump I have been following the thread. The tank looks great by the way. Do you have any other flow in the tank besides the returns from the sump? If you are debating on what to do I would highly recomend a tunze wavebox. It makes natural wave movement and the water is in motion in every area of the tank in a slow circular pattern which also makes natural random currents. And forget about powerheads. I use one and have it on the same cycle as my actinics (daytime) lighting, when they go off and the moon lights come on the waves stop for a clamer nightime envoroment. It is very spendy though about $450 but as much as you are putting in to your setup it is worth it!! It uses very little power 65 watts at full power and best it's silent!!
I would scrap the UV steralizer IMO they do more harm than good on a reef tank killing benifcial bactreia in the water.
 
fishamajig

fishamajig

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man tunzie's got to be nice, I wish I had the $$$ to get em. I have a problem with spending so much $$$ on a powerhead though, If i saw it I might change my mind though.
 
misfit

misfit

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i have a red sea wavemaker pro but dont know if im going to use it i was thinking of a closed loop system.I have a bunck of loc line comming on tues that im going to branch off the 2 returns in to like 4 0r 6 dont know but i know i need to do something
 
jamiehag

jamiehag

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You could also use 2 SCWID wavemakers I had mine setup like that for a bit then put the wave box in and took them out they will fit right inside your overflows on the returnlines and use loc-lines on them. This will also give you some random switching currents.
 
jamiehag

jamiehag

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Originally Posted by Nater
Very nice setup Jamiehag

Where exactly in NE Iowa are you? I'm in Dubuque.
Nate
Decorah I'd say about 1.5-2 hour drive from you.
 
lion_crazz

lion_crazz

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hey, BEAUTIFUL tank! 210's are great, aren't they? I just set-up mine as well.
Quick question: how do you take such nice pics of your tank with the moonlights on??
 
jamiehag

jamiehag

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Originally Posted by lion_crazz
hey, BEAUTIFUL tank! 210's are great, aren't they? I just set-up mine as well.
Quick question: how do you take such nice pics of your tank with the moonlights on??
no flash? for any of the pics thats all I can tell you
got any threads with pics of your tank?
 
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