Lee’s 180 gallon Planet Acro Tank

[buruskeee]

3 new additions to the tank

Blue throat fairy wrasse? I added one recently too! Mine needs to flash dominance to get its throat to flash the bright blue I’ve found. Most of the time it isn’t seen.

What’s your fish count total at? I have a slightly smaller tank (5x2x2) and curious about stocking capacity (currently have 2 wrasse, 5 tangs, and 3 anthias).

 

[leepink23]

Blue throat fairy wrasse? I added one recently too! Mine needs to flash dominance to get its throat to flash the bright blue I’ve found. Most of the time it isn’t seen.

What’s your fish count total at? I have a slightly smaller tank (5x2x2) and curious about stocking capacity (currently have 2 wrasse, 5 tangs, and 3 anthias).

Exquisite wrasse. Unfortunately it suffered a spinal injury and I lost it. Also lost my sand sifter for an unknown reason.
Fish count now is 3 tang, 2 wrasse, 2 clowns, foxface, springari damsel, so 9 total. I want to add 2 more wrasse at some point and maybe a fathead anthias.

 

[leepink23]

Rhomboid is really coloring up

 

[Husker-reef]

Great build! Looking forward to an update with pics of all your new acros!
Would you recommend the reefi uno pro 2.0’s. Have an SPS dominant System also. Wanting to upgrade from the Neptune sky’s. I have placed one battle coral order about a year ago, but want to order again. What are your favorites?

 

[leepink23]

Great build! Looking forward to an update with pics of all your new acros!
Would you recommend the reefi uno pro 2.0’s. Have an SPS dominant System also. Wanting to upgrade from the Neptune sky’s. I have placed one battle coral order about a year ago, but want to order again. What are your favorites?

Can’t picture this well (new lasermelon) but I really like BC lasermelon, bc rainbow brite, bc aquatic man table.
I definitely recommend the unos, I am not a big fan of the shimmer but I have kessil and primes blended in so it looks great. The par is unreal.

 

[leepink23]

BC shaggy sunset milli.

 

[leepink23]

Some updated photos.

 

[leepink23]

Added a 1/5 hp Jbj chiller yesterday. Tank temps have been peaking out at 80 already since adding the canopy and it hasn’t even started getting hot in Mississippi. I did leave 4 fans blowing cool air in to help keep the leds cool. I have 9 lights in total so the heat adds up. The reefi seem to produce a lot of heat.

 

[clownfishmama]

So I haven’t had a home display in over a year as we sold our trailer and built a house. I do have 2 lowboys that I grow out corals located in a friends shop but not a home display.
Exciting news I finally ordered a home tank.
180 gallon planet aquarium. Expecting in 4-6 weeks.
Equipment I have ordered so far:

Trigger sapphire sump 39
4 x Reefi Uno 2.0 pro with mounts
Dual Maxspect Gyre xf350
Jebao return pump
Tunze ATO
Cone Q3 in sump skimmer

100 lbs of caribsea dry rock
6 foundation rock
80 lbs special grade sand
instant ocean salt

Things I already own:
Spectrapure RODi
Apogee 510 par meter

I will order fish through my friend that fully QT everything:
Naso tang
Powder Blue
Scopas
Tomini
Foxface
Pair of clownfish
Multiple wrasse
Diamond Goby

Most if not all coral will come from my grow out frag tanks. Will be acro dominant.

Below is a link to my lowboy frag tank page for some pictures. I will post more as time gets closer.

Frag Build - Dual lowboy frag tank build

Currently setting up 2 50 gallon low boys (48x24x10). So far for equipment I have an apex el, eb4, skimz skimmer, 2 hydra 26, jebao gyre and return pump. A friend of mine that has a Lfs gave me a stand that I painted yesterday, he has built me a sump from a 40 breeder and drilled one of the low...

www.reef2reef.com

In my opinion clownfish are a need for every saltwater tank. I love those little guys

 

[spsick]

@leepink23 really nice setup. Is the stand all hardwood or is there plywood construction on the interior/structural parts? Is there any more pictures than on the first page? Trying to design something similar.

 

[leepink23]

In my opinion clownfish are a need for every saltwater tank. I love those little guys

I do too. Mine are paired up. Here’s a few pictures of the clowns.

 

[leepink23]

@leepink23 really nice setup. Is the stand all hardwood or is there plywood construction on the interior/structural parts? Is there any more pictures than on the first page? Trying to design something similar.

Mostly oak with some plywood construction

 

[leepink23]

I would say chiller is working nicely!

 

[leepink23]

Red planet growing and happy. With and without blue filter

 

[leepink23]

My battle coral tenius.

 

[leepink23]

Laser Melon. This is a tenius I wanted for a long time. Growing nicely!

 

[leepink23]

Doing some much needed pump cleaning. I have backup of all my pumps so I can rotate them out and clean over night in citric acid.