GoldBarb's 210 Stony Reef

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

I'm fairly new around here, but I've been in the hobby for about 8 years. Just over a year ago I started my 210. When I first purchased the tank I intedended to make it a FOWLR with some larger fish but couldn't quite make up my mind what I wanted. lol This is the largest tank I have owned, and the stocking possibilities were broader than I had ever dealt with. :) Well, I ended up settling on a few classic favorites and they were all reefsafe. Well, with reefsafe fish, who could resist the temptation to turn the tank into a reef?!? Not this reefer. so, as I said, the tank has been running for a year, and I am still not fully stocked on fish or corals. I am following my own advice and taking things very very slowly. I have taken the time to build up the right equipment first, and then focused on live stock second.
Equipment list:
210gal AGA RR tank on a custom stand
40gal breeder sump
SRO-3000INT Skimmer
BRS Duel GFO/Carbon reactor
Lighting - DIY LED project with 72x3w Cree diodes with a mix of 36RB, 12B, 20CW, 4WW (was supposed to be 12CW and 12 WW but the shipper messed up, not complaining though)
Neptune AC3 controller
5 Koralia Powerheads (these will be changing to a couple of high flow Sicce powerheads)

Live Stock:
200lbs of live rock (100 started out as Dry Rock and was cured for almost a full year before setting up the tank)
5 Royal Grammas
2 Tomato Clowns
1 Tomini Tang
1 Juvi Orange Shoulder Tang
1 Blue Hippo Tang

Sour Apple Birdsnest
Regular Green Birdsnest
Pink Birdsnest
Red Planet Acro
Purple Monti Cap
4-5 Red Monti Caps
Green Monti Digi
Pink Pocillipora
Fire and Ice Zoas
7 headed Duncan
5 Headed Hammer
Small Acan
Large Wellsi
First Shrimp
Pink Serpant Star
Large Long-spinned Urchin

All my corals are still quite small (except the open brain) as they have not been in the tank for long, but all my SPS are getting about 1/4-1/2 inch of growth per month with just water changes an Ca/Alk dosing. Will be adding the Koralin (knockoff) Ca reactor by the end of the year.

I don't have a currenty picture of the tank, I'll take one later today and post it here.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Sounds like a great tank! Looking forward to seeing and following!

 

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

Here's a quick shot. Used my wife's point-and-shoot, sorry about the blurry fish.

 

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

so my tank has undergone some major changes since I last updated this thread. Unfortunately I had a catastrophic loss of fish a few months back. I introduced a fish that, in spite of qt efforts, still brought something into the tank and wiped out all my fish but the Blue Hippo and a Sixline Wrasse. Also, since the last update, there has been some rock added, and the tank has been moved from the stand, to a new home in the wall of my dining room. Here's a quick shot of the result. It still needs to be trimmed out.

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[revhtree Verified Admin]

It's come along nicely!

 

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

I really need to get some better pics of the fish and corals, and the tank as a whole. lol
Updated fish list:
Blue Hippo Tang
Powder Blue Tang
Blonde Naso Tang (i think he survived the trauma of the move)
One-spot Foxface
Sixline Wrasse
Red Firefish