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180 gallon mix in the wall .. i built it from ground up .. i picked the tank up for a deal .. traded a 14 gallon bio cube for the tank and sump cause he already has a 300 set up and wanted something for his mom .. so went from there for the rest of the set up .. helped out at a LFS not for money but for trade outs on parts ..

65 gallon sump / fuge ..
2 , 2 little fishy reactors
220 coralife skimmer
4 - k evos with wave maker
1800 GPH mag drive pump
12 bulb t5 fixture
wave point bulbs
3 work horse 7 ballast
6 12.5" 6 watt Stunner LED 453nm Blue
230 LBS fiji rock
200 LBS white sand
 

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heres a full front view of the tank with the MHs on .. just installed them on friday the 8th of july ..

there will be more coming soon ..
 

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looks great! couple things:

how long are the t5s that you are using? I have a 180g (6ft) long and im using 8 60" ones... just seeing if you went with the 72"..
how many fish will be in there? What kinds? mine has been up for a while and i still only have 3 in there! lol
will you be getting a cal reactor?
 
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1mbrew .. sry it took so long for me to get back to you .. right now im running 8 36" T5s with 2 .. 150 watt HQI MHs 14K i built my lighting system .. powered by work horse ballasts .. wave point bulbs .. i built pretty much everything for my system from ground up .. it took me between 6 and 10 months to get the pumps and everything i was going to need to start another reef tank in my house .. but heres my fish list i have in there right now .. i was trying to go with a dominate tang tank but had to throw other colors in too ..

6 cromis .. 1 royal gramma .. 1 mandarin goby .. 1 clarkie clown .. tom clown .. mated pair neon gobys w babies now ... 1 yellow watchman in over flow (( cant keep him out of it )) .. 1 yellow coris wrasse .. hawaiian yellow tang .. lavender tang . powder blue tang .. orange strip tang .. powder brown tang ..





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