So many gorgeous tanks here, really made it hard for me to decide to post pics of my reef, despite being a member here for a few years now. So, here goes.
120 gallon oceanic tank, started in December 2005, after losing my previous reef tank in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.
Lighting: 8 bulb TEK fixture, with two ReefBrite XHO blue LEDs
Moonlights: Fishbowl Innovations moon tubes
Flow: Tunze wavebox pump only, Maxspect Gyre 150
Return pump: DC6000
GEO 818 calcium reactor, LiterMeter III dosing calcium & alk, GEO kalkwasser reactor
Vertex Alpha 200 skimmer
Vertex media reactor with GFO
GEO 612 calcium reactor converted to sulfur denitrator
cooling via evaporation with a fan
AquaUV 54W sterilizer
Inhabitants: Longspine urchin, Flame Hawk, blue hippo tang, purple tang, japanese swallowtail angel (female), tomini tang, sunset wrasse, harlequin tusk, sixline wrasse. Several of these fish (the tangs and the flame hawkfish) are as old as the tank.
A bunch of maxi-mini anemones
I can't keep a cleanup crew due to the tusk, but, I love that fish, so, snail/shrimp/crabless I will remain
Recent FTS, early December this year. I lost all my SPS colonies which had been growing for 7 years from frags and were huge, about 2 years ago due to use of Chemiclean (died overnight). Things are slowly growing back to colonies, though I haven't been able to locate replacement frags of all the SPS I had before (such as the 30K Lokani). Everything in this tank was grown from frags, with the exception of the large Lobophyllias in the front of the tank. Pardon the cyano on the front left. It's sprung up as soon as I started feeding reef frenzy. All I had fed before were spectrum new life pellets.
120 gallon oceanic tank, started in December 2005, after losing my previous reef tank in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.
Lighting: 8 bulb TEK fixture, with two ReefBrite XHO blue LEDs
Moonlights: Fishbowl Innovations moon tubes
Flow: Tunze wavebox pump only, Maxspect Gyre 150
Return pump: DC6000
GEO 818 calcium reactor, LiterMeter III dosing calcium & alk, GEO kalkwasser reactor
Vertex Alpha 200 skimmer
Vertex media reactor with GFO
GEO 612 calcium reactor converted to sulfur denitrator
cooling via evaporation with a fan
AquaUV 54W sterilizer
Inhabitants: Longspine urchin, Flame Hawk, blue hippo tang, purple tang, japanese swallowtail angel (female), tomini tang, sunset wrasse, harlequin tusk, sixline wrasse. Several of these fish (the tangs and the flame hawkfish) are as old as the tank.
A bunch of maxi-mini anemones
I can't keep a cleanup crew due to the tusk, but, I love that fish, so, snail/shrimp/crabless I will remain
Recent FTS, early December this year. I lost all my SPS colonies which had been growing for 7 years from frags and were huge, about 2 years ago due to use of Chemiclean (died overnight). Things are slowly growing back to colonies, though I haven't been able to locate replacement frags of all the SPS I had before (such as the 30K Lokani). Everything in this tank was grown from frags, with the exception of the large Lobophyllias in the front of the tank. Pardon the cyano on the front left. It's sprung up as soon as I started feeding reef frenzy. All I had fed before were spectrum new life pellets.