210 gallon build

saltyfish · Sep 2, 2014

I am fairly new to the site but not new to the hobby. I have had salty tanks for the last 5 years. This tank has been running for about 1 year and 3 months now. It has gone through a lot of changes. Was originally supposed to be a FOWLR tank, but corals quickly took over.

Specs:
210 gallon display
40 gallon sump/frag tank
29 gallon refugium (several macroalgaes, copepods, amphipods, mysid shrimp)
Bubble Magus 180-EX Skimmer
3x Radion Gen2 Pro LED
Korallin C-4002 Calcium Reactor
2x WP-40 and 2x WP-25 Pumps
Mag 18 Return Pump

saltyfish · Sep 2, 2014

Went from this:

saltyfish · Sep 2, 2014

To this:

saltyfish · Sep 2, 2014

To this in just a few months:

saltyfish · Sep 2, 2014

This is one my most current pics, but things have moved around a bit since then.

GreenReef2014 · Sep 2, 2014

Wow, that's a very fast growth for a few months. How many months exactly?

Kworker · Sep 2, 2014

Tank looks real nice, wish I wasn't average height and had longer arms so I would of felt okay going with the 210 over the 180! That extra 6" in height would of been real difficult for me. lol

How does the trio of hippos do with eachother?

saltyfish · Sep 3, 2014

GreenReef2014 said:
Wow, that's a very fast growth for a few months. How many months exactly?

The third picture was from March and the last picture was in July. Most of the corals doubled in size including the acroporas. I had an alkalinity spike last month when I switched calcium reactors but luckily only lost two corals out of 75 (soon to be three as one of the plate corals hasn't been doing so well).