reefer44
Member
Well, i finally finished setting up my 180g with a 55g sump and a 15g fuge........i setup Sept 3 and the tank was filled with creatures (corals, inverts, and fish) 3 days after filled.............i skipped the cycle and everything servived and is still thriving today..........also as many of you know i am only 16 and this is my second sps tank (well 95% sps)...unlike my last tank my dad is finacing me on this one..........I hope you enjoy:
Equipment:
2xTurbelle Stream 6100 (3175gph each)
+Multicontroller 7094
6xPFO HQI 250W Mini Pendant
6xPFO 250W Single HQI MH Ballast
3x250W 10K MH DE- Aqualine
3x250W 20K MH DE- Aqualine
Euroreef CS6-2
Tunze Automatic Skimmer3130/2 11
Arctica Titanium Chiller 1/3HP (not hooked up yet)
Iwaki 70RLT (return pump does 1500gph)
LCD digital 350w titanium heater
Korallin 3002 calc reactor
+Calc. Reactor includes everything standard plus(+)
+Eheim 1048
+CO2 regulator deluxe
+A.R.M media
+10LB CO2 cylinder
+CO2 Tubing
+Pinpoint pH Controller (incase it flux’s)
CPR External Overflow (1600gph)
1" Sea Swirl (for Iwaki return)
2x Aqualifter pumps (one for calc. Reactor one for overflow)
4x 4" cooling fans to blow out of top of the hood over the lights
Sand/Rock:
250 pounds base rock (plus about 80 pound that is well established LR in my 55g)
120 pounds fine white sand (for ½"-3" deep sand bed just for looks.....like Bare Bottom concept but not the way it looks)
55g and 15g Sump/Frag/Refugium:
seaclone skimmer (small but just for waste put out from frags)
55g is hooked to main tank through first floor and is in basement
2X175w 10k XM's
15g fuge below 55g and is half chaeto And half caulerpa
Corals:
over 20 dif. sps
about 5-8 dif. soft corals
carpet anenome (about 8")
sabea anenome (about 8-9")
Inverts:
around 7 pep. shrimps
1 or 2 hermits
about 7 snails
3-5 serpent stars
sand sifting star
cleaner shrimp
Fish:
Yellow Tang
Clown Tang
Orange Skunk Clown
Clarkii Clown
Purple Psuedochromis
3 Lyretail Anthia (2 females and 1 male)
Maintanace:
5g a week change
cleaning pumps once a month
Water:
pH: 8.31 (almost constant cause fuge is basically 24/7 and sump is on reverse cyle of lighting)
alk: 9.8dKH
calc: 430ppm
mg: 1270
thats all i test for and all i add
now for the pics
Equipment:
2xTurbelle Stream 6100 (3175gph each)
+Multicontroller 7094
6xPFO HQI 250W Mini Pendant
6xPFO 250W Single HQI MH Ballast
3x250W 10K MH DE- Aqualine
3x250W 20K MH DE- Aqualine
Euroreef CS6-2
Tunze Automatic Skimmer3130/2 11
Arctica Titanium Chiller 1/3HP (not hooked up yet)
Iwaki 70RLT (return pump does 1500gph)
LCD digital 350w titanium heater
Korallin 3002 calc reactor
+Calc. Reactor includes everything standard plus(+)
+Eheim 1048
+CO2 regulator deluxe
+A.R.M media
+10LB CO2 cylinder
+CO2 Tubing
+Pinpoint pH Controller (incase it flux’s)
CPR External Overflow (1600gph)
1" Sea Swirl (for Iwaki return)
2x Aqualifter pumps (one for calc. Reactor one for overflow)
4x 4" cooling fans to blow out of top of the hood over the lights
Sand/Rock:
250 pounds base rock (plus about 80 pound that is well established LR in my 55g)
120 pounds fine white sand (for ½"-3" deep sand bed just for looks.....like Bare Bottom concept but not the way it looks)
55g and 15g Sump/Frag/Refugium:
seaclone skimmer (small but just for waste put out from frags)
55g is hooked to main tank through first floor and is in basement
2X175w 10k XM's
15g fuge below 55g and is half chaeto And half caulerpa
Corals:
over 20 dif. sps
about 5-8 dif. soft corals
carpet anenome (about 8")
sabea anenome (about 8-9")
Inverts:
around 7 pep. shrimps
1 or 2 hermits
about 7 snails
3-5 serpent stars
sand sifting star
cleaner shrimp
Fish:
Yellow Tang
Clown Tang
Orange Skunk Clown
Clarkii Clown
Purple Psuedochromis
3 Lyretail Anthia (2 females and 1 male)
Maintanace:
5g a week change
cleaning pumps once a month
Water:
pH: 8.31 (almost constant cause fuge is basically 24/7 and sump is on reverse cyle of lighting)
alk: 9.8dKH
calc: 430ppm
mg: 1270
thats all i test for and all i add
now for the pics