My New 185 Gal Reef

[Dragon52]

In the bottom of the stand you can see where I coated it with white flex seal to make a small 56x22x4" safety sump incase there's a leak. Excuse the wire mess. still working on running things nicely.

 

[Dragon52]

Removed the socks from the sump & going with foam insert to see how things go

 

[Dragon52]

Created a bigger shelf for the fish to hide under.

 

[Dragon52]

I've been looking at the OctoLids for my tank to cut down on cleaning & should help with temp & oxygen in the tank.
Octo Aquatics

 

[Dragon52]

OK, So I recently picked up 3 Kessil A360WE & now have to figure out how to mount them above the tank. Wife says absolutely not to hanging them so I thought I might try to come up with an aluminum solution that will mount to the Current Orbit hangers. Any ideas with pics would be appreciated. I was thinking a 1/2"x1" by 60" bar & drill holes.

 

[NY_Caveman]

I would start a new, specific thread for this question, maybe in the DIY forum. It will get more eyes on it from people following that forum.

EDIT: and congratulations on some nice new lights.

 

[Dragon52]

I would start a new, specific thread for this question, maybe in the DIY forum. It will get more eyes on it from people following that forum.

EDIT: and congratulations on some nice new lights.

Thanks

 

[Dragon52]

New Changes to My 185gl
Updated some rock Features> you can see the difference at the corners if you look at the earlier pics verses some of these.
Updated Lights from 2 Orbit Marine 48-60" to 3 Kessil A360WEs
The coolest thing about them is that because I sit about 2ft from the tank & have to look up slightly to look at it I can see the shafts of light as if I was in the ocean swimming under water. REALLY COOL
Rock Anemone is hard to get a pick of for some reason.

I hope this will finally gets me my REEF TANK 365 Banner. lol

 

[Dragon52]

New Addition to the family

 

[Dragon52]

My Tank Inhabitants are.
Fish
Melanurus Wrasse 1
Red eye Wrasse 1
Flame Angel 1
Lemonpeel Angel 1
Coral Beauty 1
Blue-throat Trigger 1
Maroon Clown 1
Wheelers Gobies 2 mated pairs
YellowHead Jawfish 1
Midas Blenny 1
PJ Cardinal 2
Chevron Tang 1
Lemonpeel Mimic Tang 1
Hippo/Regal Tang 1

Corals
Torch 2
Hammer 2
Kenya Tree 1
Zoas 4
Octospawn 1
Misc 3

Inverts
Fire Shrimp 2
Cleaner Shrimp 2
Feather Dusters 4

CUC
Snails Many varieties
Hermit Crabs many varieties
Fighting Conchs 2

 

[Dragon52]

Lost these 2 last wk, everything great one day, transported out to somewhere the next. Haven't seen them since. Very Healthy. Will have to try again.
Blue-throat Trigger
Lemonpeel Mimic Tang

 

[Dragon52]

Happy Family

 

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Newer Pics

 

[Dragon52]

A cpl nice pics of 2 of my corals.

 

[Seminoles76]

Tank is looking great. Love the coral and the fish. I also like the aquascape. Hope everything continues to go well for you.

 

[Dragon52]

Tank is looking great. Love the coral and the fish. I also like the aquascape. Hope everything continues to go well for you.

Thanks, I've had the hardest time getting to grow anything but a few are growing real slow.

 

[Seminoles76]

Yeah. The coral you are keeping are typically slower growers in my experience. I stay with SPS for that reason alone. My wife does get on me if nothing is swaying, so I put some star polyps on a Little Rock at the bottom of the tank. That’s good if you are seeing some growth on them.

 

[Seminoles76]

And they look healthy.

 

[Dragon52]

And they look healthy.

Thanks, I 've had some for over a yr now. This is the one the wife wanted for flow, I'm going to have to trim before it gets to much bigger.
Not long after buying

Now in the Center.

 

[Dragon52]

Trigger Says My Tail is Prettier than yours.