hybridazn
Acro killer.....
So here is my post finally. First some not so great pics of the tank
And me enjoying the tank with my daughter..
So there are some meh pics. Now for some specs
Tank info: 180 gallon Aqueon glass tank 6x2x2 with custom coast to coast overflow and bean animal overflow
Sump: 40 gallon breeder Aqueon glass custom sump. Its very basic, it only has 2 sections. 1 is the overflow/fuge area, and the other is the return/heater/probe holder section
Refugium: My fuge takes up roughly half of my sump. it houses purple tip frogspawn, duncans and dragons breath macro algae. For lighting I use a 15" ReefBrite 50/50 led
Skimmer: Currently I am skimmer less. I pulled it offline about a year ago and have no regrets. But if anyone is curious it is a Euro Reef RS-250
Flow: For flow I use a mag24 for my return and 2 vortech mp40WES to keep things moving. The vortechs are running at 50% on short pulse anti sync. I used to have them on 100% but a lot of my sps would do nothing but encrust and give me no vertical growth. Since I turned them down about 3 months ago I have gotten tremendous vertical growth.
Lighting: I first set the tank up with MH. 2x 400 watt and 1x 250 watt. I pulled those in favor for radions and I ran those for a little over 2 years with great success. But I switched those out recently for 3x 250 watt MH radiums. So far I do not regret switching and the power consumption really isn't much different from the radions surprisingly.
Dosing/caRx: For dosing I dose 2 part via a Bubble Magus Doser.
Controller if any: I have an Apex Controller. Its the full system so it monitors ph and temp. I also got the PM2 module and conductivity probe to monitor salinity. Its set up pretty basic right now just using it for mostly monitoring. I also use a Tunze ATO with a 20 gallon XT as my RODI container
Maintenance info: Its a pretty easy schedule for me. I do a 15 gallon water change every sunday with Red Sea Coral Pro salt and RODI. I scrape the glass every 2 days with my mag float with scraper so my hand doesn't ever go in the tank. And I fill up my 1 gallon jugs of 2 part as needed. Thats really about it.
Stock list: So for fish I only have a few:
Powder Blue Tang(I've had him for almost 8 years now. Has been thru everything, 2 ich outbreaks where I lost everything but him and a couple other fish on this list.)
Desjanardi Sailfin Tang
Maldives lyretail anthias( had a trio but lost the 2 females in QT)
Pair of clownfish. 1 is a True Percula and the other is a ORA Semi Picasso clownfish.
ORA Springeri Dottyback
Yasha Goby(had a male/female pair but lost the female years back during a ich outbreak)
Melunarus Wrasse(male) I plan on getting a female soon
Cleaner wrasse(Ive had him for going on 8 years now. He eats everything and has survived 2 ich outbreaks and a velvet outbreak)
I to add a few more fish but I am very gun shy when it comes to adding fish anymore, even with QT. 3 times I have had almost complete losses because of fish. As for inverts I have a Coral banded shrimp, fire shrimp and cleaner shrimp. And your usual snails and hermit crabs. My tank is mostly SPS with a couple pieces of LPS scattered in there. And of course zoas for my wife since those are her favorite.
Some future plans for my tank are keep expanding my apex. Get a wet floor sensor, wire my doors so that my under cabinet lights come on when i open them. Add another EB8 as well. I really want to build a nicer sump out of another 40b i have laying around and redo my return plumbing. I also I want to replace my return pump with a DC pump and switch to black sand. And to DEF make my nice canopy for my halides, and wire up my t5s for it as well hahaha.
The list of ppl that I think helped me on this tank is pretty long. But to sum it up its basically all you guys and this forum. All I do is read, read ,read. Thank you R2R!
Now I guess I have to tag someone, so I guess I will tag Alicia(slojmn) to be next.
I hope I didn't forget anything lol
And me enjoying the tank with my daughter..
So there are some meh pics. Now for some specs
Tank info: 180 gallon Aqueon glass tank 6x2x2 with custom coast to coast overflow and bean animal overflow
Sump: 40 gallon breeder Aqueon glass custom sump. Its very basic, it only has 2 sections. 1 is the overflow/fuge area, and the other is the return/heater/probe holder section
Refugium: My fuge takes up roughly half of my sump. it houses purple tip frogspawn, duncans and dragons breath macro algae. For lighting I use a 15" ReefBrite 50/50 led
Skimmer: Currently I am skimmer less. I pulled it offline about a year ago and have no regrets. But if anyone is curious it is a Euro Reef RS-250
Flow: For flow I use a mag24 for my return and 2 vortech mp40WES to keep things moving. The vortechs are running at 50% on short pulse anti sync. I used to have them on 100% but a lot of my sps would do nothing but encrust and give me no vertical growth. Since I turned them down about 3 months ago I have gotten tremendous vertical growth.
Lighting: I first set the tank up with MH. 2x 400 watt and 1x 250 watt. I pulled those in favor for radions and I ran those for a little over 2 years with great success. But I switched those out recently for 3x 250 watt MH radiums. So far I do not regret switching and the power consumption really isn't much different from the radions surprisingly.
Dosing/caRx: For dosing I dose 2 part via a Bubble Magus Doser.
Controller if any: I have an Apex Controller. Its the full system so it monitors ph and temp. I also got the PM2 module and conductivity probe to monitor salinity. Its set up pretty basic right now just using it for mostly monitoring. I also use a Tunze ATO with a 20 gallon XT as my RODI container
Maintenance info: Its a pretty easy schedule for me. I do a 15 gallon water change every sunday with Red Sea Coral Pro salt and RODI. I scrape the glass every 2 days with my mag float with scraper so my hand doesn't ever go in the tank. And I fill up my 1 gallon jugs of 2 part as needed. Thats really about it.
Stock list: So for fish I only have a few:
Powder Blue Tang(I've had him for almost 8 years now. Has been thru everything, 2 ich outbreaks where I lost everything but him and a couple other fish on this list.)
Desjanardi Sailfin Tang
Maldives lyretail anthias( had a trio but lost the 2 females in QT)
Pair of clownfish. 1 is a True Percula and the other is a ORA Semi Picasso clownfish.
ORA Springeri Dottyback
Yasha Goby(had a male/female pair but lost the female years back during a ich outbreak)
Melunarus Wrasse(male) I plan on getting a female soon
Cleaner wrasse(Ive had him for going on 8 years now. He eats everything and has survived 2 ich outbreaks and a velvet outbreak)
I to add a few more fish but I am very gun shy when it comes to adding fish anymore, even with QT. 3 times I have had almost complete losses because of fish. As for inverts I have a Coral banded shrimp, fire shrimp and cleaner shrimp. And your usual snails and hermit crabs. My tank is mostly SPS with a couple pieces of LPS scattered in there. And of course zoas for my wife since those are her favorite.
Some future plans for my tank are keep expanding my apex. Get a wet floor sensor, wire my doors so that my under cabinet lights come on when i open them. Add another EB8 as well. I really want to build a nicer sump out of another 40b i have laying around and redo my return plumbing. I also I want to replace my return pump with a DC pump and switch to black sand. And to DEF make my nice canopy for my halides, and wire up my t5s for it as well hahaha.
The list of ppl that I think helped me on this tank is pretty long. But to sum it up its basically all you guys and this forum. All I do is read, read ,read. Thank you R2R!
Now I guess I have to tag someone, so I guess I will tag Alicia(slojmn) to be next.
I hope I didn't forget anything lol
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