blfuller123
375 Mixed Reef
This is my 270 gallon room divider. The tank was originally set up as a FOWLR in August of 2010 and then converted to a mixed reef in Janurary 2011.
Equipment
The tank is a 72x24x36 DSA tank. I use 96 3 watt cree LEDs with dimmable drivers and use 60 degree optics mounted on a 60x10 heatsink for lighting. I use a hammerhead gold for a main pump that also supplies my skimmer chiller and refugium. My sump is about 50 gallons, has 3 chambers with float switches and a float valve for ATO. My skimmer is an Orca 200 with a dart gold needle wheel pump and a Swabbie neck cleaner on it. For circulation, I have 2 returns from the sump, 2 Tunze 6105s and I just recently added a Tunze 6305. I just rescently got rid of my calcium reactor and kalk reactor and replaced them with dosing pumps. I had a custom reservoir made to fit a cabinet for the dosing chemicals and dosing pumps to fit in. I also use a 300mg ozone generator. Everything is controlled with my apex. The apex ramps the lights up and down, controlls the Tunze pumps and controlls the dosing pumps. My stand is pretty much sealed up so even though I have LED lighting, I still have to use a 1/3 hp teco chiller to keep the temperature down.
Livestock
I have somewhere between 325 and 350 pounds of liverock. The rock is stacked high in the center of the tank to allow the fish to have swimming areas around the whole tank. I have several different kinds of SPS higher on the rock and keep LPS down low in the tank.
As far as fish goes I have a pair of crosshatch triggers, the male is about 7 inches and the female is around 8 inches. I have a naso tang that is about 10 inches. I have an orange shoulder tang that is about 8 inches, a sailfin tang that is about 6 inches, a 4 inch vlamingi tang, a 4 inch orange spot rabbit fish, a 4 inch clown tang a melanus wrasse, a pair of maroon clowns, a copperband butterfly, 8 chromis, a mandarin goby and a blue lobster.
I am rounding up pictures and will post them when I get a chance.
Equipment
The tank is a 72x24x36 DSA tank. I use 96 3 watt cree LEDs with dimmable drivers and use 60 degree optics mounted on a 60x10 heatsink for lighting. I use a hammerhead gold for a main pump that also supplies my skimmer chiller and refugium. My sump is about 50 gallons, has 3 chambers with float switches and a float valve for ATO. My skimmer is an Orca 200 with a dart gold needle wheel pump and a Swabbie neck cleaner on it. For circulation, I have 2 returns from the sump, 2 Tunze 6105s and I just recently added a Tunze 6305. I just rescently got rid of my calcium reactor and kalk reactor and replaced them with dosing pumps. I had a custom reservoir made to fit a cabinet for the dosing chemicals and dosing pumps to fit in. I also use a 300mg ozone generator. Everything is controlled with my apex. The apex ramps the lights up and down, controlls the Tunze pumps and controlls the dosing pumps. My stand is pretty much sealed up so even though I have LED lighting, I still have to use a 1/3 hp teco chiller to keep the temperature down.
Livestock
I have somewhere between 325 and 350 pounds of liverock. The rock is stacked high in the center of the tank to allow the fish to have swimming areas around the whole tank. I have several different kinds of SPS higher on the rock and keep LPS down low in the tank.
As far as fish goes I have a pair of crosshatch triggers, the male is about 7 inches and the female is around 8 inches. I have a naso tang that is about 10 inches. I have an orange shoulder tang that is about 8 inches, a sailfin tang that is about 6 inches, a 4 inch vlamingi tang, a 4 inch orange spot rabbit fish, a 4 inch clown tang a melanus wrasse, a pair of maroon clowns, a copperband butterfly, 8 chromis, a mandarin goby and a blue lobster.
I am rounding up pictures and will post them when I get a chance.
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