Hello,
I enjoy this hobby very much and purchased a used 220 gallon a few months ago. It has been an ongoing process preparing the house, stand and the tank itself. I redid all the plumbing as well as bulk heads.
The tank is an older 220 gallon, 72"x24"x29". Thick glass, over 1/2" but under 3/4".
Sump is an old school Oceanic 50 gallon, I modified it a bit, allowing the skimmer to fit in the return section, with 2 2600 gph jebao returns (i've used these products for years, I keep backups). This allowed the middle section of the sump to be used as decent sized fuge, and the supply trickles over filter material, chemi pure blue, and then smaller pieces of live rock.
Skimmer is a Aquamaxx Cone Sq-3, fits perfectly between both return pumps.
I am running a 2 little fishes reactor 550 stuffed full of Seachem Denitrate with around 25-30 gph flow. (Not conventional but one of the best methods I have discovered in 20+ years) Also have a 150 reactor I will use for either algae or GFO.
Brain will be a Apex system with ORP, PH, Salinity, and temp probes. I have a trident as well as the Apex Doser as well that is not set up yet as I do not need to waste the reagents yet.
ATO: Apex ATK
240 lbs sand.
200 lbs rock currently, have another 100 in my 75 which will be consolidated, though I wont add all the rock.
Flow consists of 4 Jebao wavemakers, one of which is the sine one that goes along the back. Will replace with vortechs and icecaps as these go, but no need to spend all that at the start.
Lighting: 4x Ai Hydras, 2 black box leds (these will go right at the ends of the tank vertically) - ERASE THE BLACK BOX ONE CAUGHT FIRE. Going with 1 hydra 64 and 4 32s
Stocking list will include the fish from my 75 gallon:
Large 10-12" Volitan Lion. (maybe. hes huge)
Chainlink Moray eel 14"
Yellow Eye kole tang
Assorted Damsels x3
Current inhabitants in 220:
2x ignitus anthias (had 3 one never took)
Foxface
Scopas tang
Flameback Angel (first time i've ever owned one, these are very cool dwarfs)
Lamarcks Angel
Diamond Goby
Damsel.
Blue Hippo
Purple Tang
Coral - Coming Soon!
I set the trident up outside of the stand as I was finding difficulty with space inside.
I think ill run an airline outdoors from the skimmer. I am having trouble keeping my PH above 7.9. Hoping this will be enough.
Also need to upgrade the chiller, 79.6 is a little warm. Close but no cigar on the 1/10 hp.
Fuge is STUFFED full of algae. All sorts, ulva, chaeto, hair, I love it. (so do the tangs) Nitrates are completely non existent anymore however and ill probably be having some fun with dinos for a little while. Eel will take care of the 0 nitrate issue fairly quickly . I only want 2-5, I do not like running 0.
This big fella will be happy to have a larger home, dang damsel bit his other horn off... ruthless little creatures. They even become predators to the predators!
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