Kyle's 72 Bowfront Reef, i'm so happy with it i have to share

frugner · Jul 2, 2012

hope you can see well enough

revhtree · Jul 2, 2012

Looks very good! How long has it been set up?

ritter6788 · Jul 2, 2012

Great looking tank! Tell us more about your set up, lighting, filtration, maintenance, etc.

BarbH · Jul 2, 2012

Tank looks great, look foward to hearing more info about it. What sump size are you using, I have a 72 bowfront that I have slowly been setting up myself.

frugner · Jul 2, 2012

it's been up a month and a half, but it's a transplant from a smaller tank which was a transplant from an even smaller tank. total time 2 years. it's 4 giesemann t5's (420,460,aquapink,10000k), 27gal water in sump/refugium, 400gal rated recirculating skimmer(i forget the make, i bought it used), Tropic Marin Bio salt, AquaVitro's eight.four/Calcification/Fuel Additives, weekly 10 gal water changes

wysiwyg · Jul 2, 2012

wow looks like tyour getting good growth and everythings very healthy ty for sharing

frugner · Jul 2, 2012

BarbH said:
Tank looks great, look foward to hearing more info about it. What sump size are you using, I have a 72 bowfront that I have slowly been setting up myself.

i found the biggest tank i could fit in the stand (30gal) and DIYed a sump from there

tygger · Jul 2, 2012

Looking good. I have a 72g also, with a 29g tank. That was the largest I was able to fit inside.

Which powerheads do you have in there?

BarbH · Jul 2, 2012

tygger said:
Looking good. I have a 72g also, with a 29g tank. That was the largest I was able to fit inside.

Which powerheads do you have in there?

Hello and welcome to r2r :welcome:

The biggest issue I have is the middle braces on my stand will provide a challenge on fitting a tank under there. I am hoping that I will be able to make a 20 gallon work.

frugner · Jul 2, 2012

tygger said:
Looking good. I have a 72g also, with a 29g tank. That was the largest I was able to fit inside.

Which powerheads do you have in there?

they were both given to me by my buddy, ones a koralia and i have no idea what the other is! haha

revsgirl · Jul 2, 2012

Great lookin' tank!! Thanks for sharing!!

frugner · Jul 2, 2012

BarbH said:
Hello and welcome to r2r :welcome:

The biggest issue I have is the middle braces on my stand will provide a challenge on fitting a tank under there. I am hoping that I will be able to make a 20 gallon work.

my sump is a VERY tight fit and it only went in one way. i did a lot of measuring and comparing to charts for just the right fit. anything with more gallons would have been too tall. i didn't have to make any changes to my stand other than drilling for plumbing.

tygger · Jul 3, 2012

BarbH said:
Hello and welcome to r2r :welcome:

The biggest issue I have is the middle braces on my stand will provide a challenge on fitting a tank under there. I am hoping that I will be able to make a 20 gallon work.

Thanks! I have the same stand as you, but in black. I was able to fit a standard 29g tank by temporarily removing the top center brace and sliding the tank down from the top.

spsboss · Jul 3, 2012

The sps look amazing, how long have you had those colonies for?

frugner · Jul 3, 2012

spsboss said:
The sps look amazing, how long have you had those colonies for?

the green birdsnest is about a year and a half old, it started as a 1" stick. the green slimer in front of it is about 8 months old and started as a 1/2" stick. those two and my blue digitata are super fast growers, so they are young colonies despite their size. most of my sps has been acquired over the last year and a half, mostly through trade.

my biggest problems have been getting purple corals to color. i had a large colony of bonsai GARF that lost it's color over 6 months and an ORA tri-color valida that refuses to color under my lighting, while at the same time i get insane colors from my tri-color staghorn and my ORA frogskin.