Elos Rimless 200 Gallon Reef (Reboot)

[miamijaaz]

Hello everyone. I thought I would share some information and pictures of my Elos 160XL (200 gallon) rimless aquarium that I recently re-booted. It's a work in progress, and I hope to use this thread to document the reboot. Thanks for viewing.

Tank and equipment

Tank: Elos 160 XL
Stand: Elos, custom painted in "BMW blue"
Sump: Elos
Lighting: Elos Aquaplanet II (4x 39 watt T5s and 2x 250 watt DE HQIs)
Skimmer: Reef Octopus Elite 200-INT
Return Pump: Eheim 1260 (~640 GPH)
Reactor: BRS 2-canister (Carbon and GFO/Polyfilter)
Controller: APEX with PH, Temperature probes / automatic fish feeder
Wavemakers: 3x Vortech MP40s (controlled by APEX)
Doser and ATO: Litermeter III and two auxiliary pumps (RO/DO, ALK and Calcium)
RO/DI Filter: Kent Marine Hi-S

 

[miamijaaz]

Livestock

1x Powder Blue Tang
1x Hippo Tang
1x Mimic Tang
1x Gladiator Clown
6x Blue/Green Chromies
1x Blood Fire Shrimp
1x Red Bulb Anemone
Assorted snails and hermits

 

[miamijaaz]

Corals

Purple Torch
Green Hammer (Aussie)
Long Tentacle Plate
Open Brain (Red)
Green Brain
Green Polyps
Xenia
Yellow Fiji Leather
Assorted Zooanthids
Green Goniapora
Sun (Tube) Coral

 

[ChristopherKriens]

Very nice!

 

[efigue02]

Beautiful aquarium!

 

[Scubafrog]

Nice stand. What color of blue is that? Estoril?

 

[miamijaaz]

Thank you for the comments everyone!

Nice stand. What color of blue is that? Estoril?

Thanks. The color is Montego Blue Metallic Clearcoat A51. It was the color on a 335i I used to have around 2009-2010

 

[McMullen]

Nice clean setup!
Looks well thought out and designed!!

 

[Scubafrog]

Yep, I know the color. I currently have a Estoril Blue BMW.

 

[do_0b]

very nice build, like the super shallow sand bed

 

[alin2]

Love Elos tanks. Beautiful.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Very nice! Love it!

 

[Mwells]

If you ever sell this tank message me! I have cash.