How to successfully keep SPS Corals!

[justreefin]

Bump..for a great thread. Couldn't let this thread die off..too much good info. Any other SPS expert want to contribute?

 

[Larsen]

Great info

 

[jerl77]

here mine

 

[jerl77]

 

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[bige]

Amazing! Looks great! Whats in the back left of last pic behind the green acro? The real hairy purple thingy.

 

[Dowtish]

Amazing mixed reef man! congratz, its really beautiful

 

[skinz78]

Great looking tanks guys, I hope someday mine looks as good as some of these!

 

[justreefin]

Hey Jerl77, beautiful tank. Can you tell us how you keep a successful tank. Would love to know how you maintain your tank, lighting, supplements, and all that good stuff.

 

[darryl_v]

Tank size

75 gallon 48"L x 18"W x 20"H with 40 gallon custom sump

Parameters

Alk 9
CA 450
Mag 1450-1500
Salinity 35 ppt (specific gravity 1.026) - Reef Crystals salt
temp 79-80


Equipment

Geo 618 calcium reactor
Aqua C EV-120 skimmer
Radium 250 watt MH lighting in Lumenarc Mini reflectors with IceCap ballasts
2 x 48" Sunbrite LED actinics
Eheim 1260 return
Closed loop with Super Dart pump and Oceans Motions Super Squirt compact
Reefkeeper 2 controller

Photoperiod

Actinics 7:30 AM to 10:30 PM
MH 11:30 Am to 7 PM

Feeding

Fish get fed a very small amount of Formula One flakes once daily
Corals get fed 5ml of Oyster Feast and Phytoplankton or RotiFeast every other day or so (when I remember)

Maintenence

10 gallon water change every 2 weeks

The last picture was just before I took this tank down 2 weeks ago and moved everything to a 200 gallon tank with LED lighting. Several of the corals had grown to the front panel and reaching the coraline to scrape it was impossible without breaking something. Everything was so grown together and intertwined the left side pretty was one solid mass. This should be a good test to compare LED to MH.

Beautiful.....how are the LEDs going thus far?

 

[gws3]

great thread... this is the kind of basic blueprint that allows people to come into the hobby and be successful. I owe a submission but some of these tanks make it a tough act to follow.

 

[midnight coffee]

120G Simple tank from Shanghai

Hi friends of Reef2Reff!
I'm coming from shanghai,China. I have a 120g Reef tank byBerlin system. this simple tankhas been running since June/2010. I decided to share some pictures even it's still very new. Please, leave your impressions. Thank you very much.


System:
Display Tank Size: 120 x 65 x 52cm
Sump: 85x45x30cm
Light: T5HO,10x54W, 6 blue,2 white,2 Fiji purple
Skimmer: AE-CLIN(PJ7500 pump)
Water movement: Tunze 6105X2 plus 6215 Wave box/7096 controller.
Filtration: 2 Filters separated loaded by KZ Carbon and ROWA
Water: RO/DI 50G

Parameter:
Salinity: 1.025
PH: 8.35~8.5
Calcium: 380
Magnesium: 1350

Alkalinity: 8.5~9.0
Phosphate: 0.03
NO3: ZERO

 

[skinz78]

Hi friends of Reef2Reff!
I'm coming from shanghai,China. I have a 120g Reef tank byBerlin system. this simple tankhas been running since June/2010. I decided to share some pictures even it's still very new. Please, leave your impressions. Thank you very much.


System:
Display Tank Size: 120 x 65 x 52cm
Sump: 85x45x30cm
Light: T5HO,10x54W, 6 blue,2 white,2 Fiji purple
Skimmer: AE-CLIN(PJ7500 pump)
Water movement: Tunze 6105X2 plus 6215 Wave box/7096 controller.
Filtration: 2 Filters separated loaded by KZ Carbon and ROWA
Water: RO/DI 50G

Parameter:
Salinity: 1.025
PH: 8.35~8.5
Calcium: 380
Magnesium: 1350
Alkalinity: 8.5~9.0
Phosphate: 0.03
NO3: ZERO

Welcome to Reef2Reef, your tank is absolutely stunning!

 

[bige]

Hi friends of Reef2Reff!
I'm coming from shanghai,China. I have a 120g Reef tank byBerlin system. this simple tankhas been running since June/2010. I decided to share some pictures even it's still very new. Please, leave your impressions. Thank you very much.


System:
Display Tank Size: 120 x 65 x 52cm
Sump: 85x45x30cm
Light: T5HO,10x54W, 6 blue,2 white,2 Fiji purple
Skimmer: AE-CLIN(PJ7500 pump)
Water movement: Tunze 6105X2 plus 6215 Wave box/7096 controller.
Filtration: 2 Filters separated loaded by KZ Carbon and ROWA
Water: RO/DI 50G

Parameter:
Salinity: 1.025
PH: 8.35~8.5
Calcium: 380
Magnesium: 1350
Alkalinity: 8.5~9.0
Phosphate: 0.03
NO3: ZERO

Nice big colonies! Great job.

 

[revhtree]

Wow yes beautiful tank!

 

[Dog Boy Dave]

325 gallon main display
6 x 400 watt mh
remote very deep sand bed
remote dark zone with live rock for sponge growth
some algae harvest in one sump
1900 gph closed loop
large skimmer with ozone
large ca reactor
test alk and ca
feed 1/2 sheet nori and about plum size fresh squid daily
ten percent water changes
suppliment with sodium bicarb and ca chloride occationally if reactor isnt keeping up.

 

[swannyson7]

Beautiful tank Dog Boy Dave!! Any chance of a FTS?

 

[Dog Boy Dave]

hehe working on it...
60x48x27

My Sump

 

[swannyson7]

Stunning... :dribble: