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Hi, long time not posting here, but I am back. Just want to share few pictures of my NPS corals and my tank.

Taken at night with flash

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Amazing looking pics!
Keep a eye out to the photo of the month as I'll request one of these months a NPS picture contest.
 
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Thank you guys, I feed my tank twice a day and if I am home early or weekends I feed even more. Most of my corals are easy NPS, so far this schedule works fine. As far as fish, right now I have 3 chalk basslets and pair of Fathead anthias, they are shy and hard to get a picture of them , but here we go.
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Future plans are to add a group of ventralis anthias and pair of either Tinkeri butterfly of Bandit angels. I am scared that either might sample my meaty sun corals, so decision has not been made yet for sure.
 
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Filtration is simple , big skimmer ATI Powercone 200 IS, 10 liters of siporax in sump , 40 gal. refugium with macro algae for additional nutrient removal, I change 30 gal. of water weekly or 50 gal. every two weeks if I get too busy to do weekly change. Bag of carbon and Purigen passive in sump. I use filter socks , that I change every 3 days. Filtration system is located in closet next to tank.
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refugium after few weeks, all kind of algae growth, none gets in DT,
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after harvesting algae

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skimmer cup after two days

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room where my tank is located

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Filtration is simple , big skimmer ATI Powercone 200 IS, 10 liters of siporax in sump , 40 gal. refugium with macro algae for additional nutrient removal, I change 30 gal. of water weekly or 50 gal. every two weeks if I get too busy to do weekly change. Bag of carbon and Purigen passive in sump. I use filter socks , that I change every 3 days. Filtration system is located in closet next to tank.
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refugium after few weeks, all kind of algae growth, none gets in DT,
refugium.jpg


after harvesting algae

refugium.jpg


skimmer cup after two days

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room where my tank is located

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Wow I love this! Beautiful tank and it is tied into the room so nicely!
 

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Can we get a pic of the tank on the otherside of the room? It almost looks like it is floating.
 
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Here are few pictures showing my light system, since NPS corals don't need light I only use minimal light for short amount of time each day. Two 3W blue spotlight LED and one PAR30 22K LED bulb from Coral Compulsion , only 5 hours a day when I get home. This way algae can not take foothold anywhere in DT, not enough light .

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No problem, right now this tank is empty, but before I set up my big one this small tank looked like this

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That is awesome! What size is that tank? I am loving the look, but I would be so afraid of the brackets ripping out of the wall lol. How did you have them secured?
 

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