Gacolt's large shallow reef

[gacolt]

Acrylic display
dimensions: 98'' x 48'' x 12'' 240 gallons center overflow 4 sided island

Stand: simple 2x4 stand painted white 43'' tall

Sump/non reef safe fish:
dimensions 96'' x 48'' x 12'' no baffles around 150lbs of live rock

Skimmer: royal exclusiv bubble king super marin 300 + rd3

return pump: jabao dc12000

Heater: jager 300w

ATO: tunze osmolator

Reactors: X2 phosban 550 both with 600ml of rowaphos.rowaphos is staggered to not shock the system.

Media: 4000ml of matrix in a aquatic plant basket.

Lighting Display: X2 Ati sunpower 54w x 8bulb X2 Ati sunpower 54w x 6bulb

Lighting sump: 1 mars aqua led

Controller: apex

Flow/powerheads Display: X2 rw15's maxspect xf250 gyre

Flow/powerheads Sump: X2 rw8 rw15 hydor 2100gph

Calcium reactor:reef octopus sro5000dd w/ electronic carbon doser TLF media

Fish list Display:
Blonde naso tang w/ streamers
yellow tang
copperband butterfly
melanurus wrasse
leopard wrasse pair
six line wrasse
cleaner wrasse
scooter dragonet
orange back fairy wrasse
Ocellaris clown pair
blue chromis
banggai cardinalfish

Fish list sump:
naso tang
imperator angelfish
flame angelfish
neon goby
diamond goby

Tank Info:
Started 6/16/2015
Almost bare bottom w/ sand patches for wrasses to sleep in.
water changes are done every week 10% reef crystals.
Feeding:
hakari mysis shrimp daily
nori sheet daily
spectrum pellets every other day
live food blood worms/ghost shrimp/brine 2-3 days a month
salinity 1.026/35ppt
alk 9dkh

 

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[lombeard]

What crazy cool dimensions. More pictures please!

 

[Tahoe61]

Awesome tank!

 

[ws6kid]

Love this. Always thought a wide long shallow reef would be sick. No stacking rock up high or issues reaching the corals or sand for maintenance.

 

[MUSBFRANK]

Very nice!

 

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[badhabits]

That is awesome...I wish I had space for a tank that size

 

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[kireek]

Your display is impressive.The coral pictures are wonderful.What I find really cool is the collection of fish.It's amazing to see the group in this runway type setting.I would be interested in seeing how you have created the sump.

 

[gacolt]

sorry for the late reply here is a pic of the sump

 

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