75 gallon Lps/Sps mix tank

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I'd like to post my 75 gallon tank that I am currently working on. It is my second salt water that I have run. My first was a 24 gallon jbj that helped me get started in the hobby as well as helped me in creating my current 75. I'll just list out everything I have and hopefully keep up with this post as my tank grows. Currently I'm working on led t5 hybrid so I'll be posting that shortly on this build once it is up.

Display 75 gallon top fin that I drilled and painted myself. Originally i bought it for a freshwater planted tank that was successful for a year then plans changed quickly after nano and this tank was born

Overflow is a synergy ghost. Coolest overflow I've seen.

From the overflow to my 20 gallon long sump that I built. In the sump is a skimz sm161 skimmer, then a refugium filled with live rock. I had chaeto but wasn't seeing much but a mess from it. Then it goes into my sicce 3.0 return pump. Also in that chamber is a pump that feeds my dual brs reactor with gfo and carbon.

My live rock is pukani, did all the aquascaping myself. Took me 4 hours to set it and I still mess with it from time to time but where it currently is now is where it is staying. I have 2 tunze nanostrram 6055 as my waves and currently 2 xr15s over the tank soon to change to an xr15 t5 hybrid.

Livestock
Two ocellaris clownfish, one Orange the other black and white
Purple firefish
Neon dotty back
Lavender tang
Peppermint shrimp
Emerald crab
Margarita snails, large narcissus snails, trochus snail, blue hermits and red hermits.

Corals
Green birdsnest, green Duncan, "moving" Duncan, 2 different favias, blastomussa, hammer, torch, frogspawn and a brain coral.

I'm excited to read any information that people could shed to have a successful reef tank and thanks for taking a look at my build

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This looks terrific...congrats on a great start.
 

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Hey, Hey nice setup, great pictures:)
 
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Thanks not bad for taking them off my phone haha
 
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This is my water change station. Sorry it's super dirty down there right now. My house flooded yesterday and the drain in the floor was so old that it rusted so we had to cut a new one and everything got caked with concrete dust.

The one on the water is straight ro/di water the other is my salt mixture. Built the stands myself
 
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I'd like to post my 75 gallon tank that I am currently working on. It is my second salt water that I have run. My first was a 24 gallon jbj that helped me get started in the hobby as well as helped me in creating my current 75. I'll just list out everything I have and hopefully keep up with this post as my tank grows. Currently I'm working on led t5 hybrid so I'll be posting that shortly on this build once it is up.

Display 75 gallon top fin that I drilled and painted myself. Originally i bought it for a freshwater planted tank that was successful for a year then plans changed quickly after nano and this tank was born

Overflow is a synergy ghost. Coolest overflow I've seen.

From the overflow to my 20 gallon long sump that I built. In the sump is a skimz sm161 skimmer, then a refugium filled with live rock. I had chaeto but wasn't seeing much but a mess from it. Then it goes into my sicce 3.0 return pump. Also in that chamber is a pump that feeds my dual brs reactor with gfo and carbon.

My live rock is pukani, did all the aquascaping myself. Took me 4 hours to set it and I still mess with it from time to time but where it currently is now is where it is staying. I have 2 tunze nanostrram 6055 as my waves and currently 2 xr15s over the tank soon to change to an xr15 t5 hybrid.

Livestock
Two ocellaris clownfish, one Orange the other black and white
Purple firefish
Neon dotty back
Lavender tang
Peppermint shrimp
Emerald crab
Margarita snails, large narcissus snails, trochus snail, blue hermits and red hermits.

Corals
Green birdsnest, green Duncan, "moving" Duncan, 2 different favias, blastomussa, hammer, torch, frogspawn and a brain coral.

I'm excited to read any information that people could shed to have a successful reef tank and thanks for taking a look at my build

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I forgot to note the stand I rebuilt from the original top fin stand that came with the tank
 
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So my tank has been up since September/October. Took a picture of it with the lights off because I really don't see this when the lights are on but I'm starting to get really good algae and coraline growth
 
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Got 4 new corals going into today. 2 acans a green slimmer and a blue polyp also some cool shots of 4 of my fish my green duncan and my moving duncan under my recent t5 led hybrid
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I also relocated my purple tipped frogspwan to add my sps to the rock it was on and also broke into 2 separate frags (on accident)
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Some pictures of my 2 new acans and my 2 new sps. The sps I think I need to move up a little bit and into a little more flow. Don't know if I should add another powerhead or not. Did a flow calculation and the tank turns over 48x in an hour so we will see
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Also my frogspawn is enjoying it's new spot in the tank it's really colored up since I've put up the new fixture also
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Installed my 2 parts doser finally and some under cabinet lighting. I ordered some switches that will turn the lights on when the door is open and turn off when the door is closed. It'll be for both doors so I don't have to have one open in order to work the lights.
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Beautiful tank Foxy-88! You have a very well designed setup, I hope you keep us updated with photos as it grows.
Mostly definitely. I just glued down my 4 new frags today. I may get a few more corals and then after that watch them grow!!
 

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