My Red Sea max 250

[Reefman603]

Here’s is my Red Sea max 250 reef tank.
Live stock :
- Black frostbite clown fish mated pair
- Yellow tang
- Red hawkfish
- Green chromis
- Malanaurus wrasse
Inverts :
- A few peppermint shrimp
- Tridacna derasa clam
- 8 Blue leg hermit crabs
- Various snails
Coral :
- Hammers ( wall and branching )
- Frogspawn
- various colony’s of zoanthids
- red plating monti
- purple plating monti
- goniopora
- alveopora
- Duncan coral
- blue/green birdsnest
- pulsing Xenia
- Candy cane coral
- various red mushrooms

I’ve been growing this system for a little under a year, I’ve had great coral growth through keeping things simple and maintaining stable water parameters. I also try and do a 10-15 percent water change every Saturday. I only dose calcium, iodide and occasionally I’ll dose the tank with zooplankton or phytoplankton.

 

[Reefman603]

I have to trim back the pulsing Xenia.

 

[Seadoc]

Very nice!!!
What lights are you using?
Interesting use of a clam to keep GSP at bay ;)

 

[Reefman603]

Very nice!!!
What lights are you using?
Interesting use of a clam to keep GSP at bay ;)

Thanks! And yah haha GSP seems to be staying in check on the clam. Lighting is all ATI T5 bulbs 4 blue plus, 1 coral plus, 1 purple plus

 

[Tahoe61]

Love ATI T5 fixtures.
Great looking tank. The red monti makes a beautiful show piece.

 

[pecan2phat]

Nice!
I still have one of these old school all in one tank.

 

[Reefman603]

Love ATI T5 fixtures.
Great looking tank. The red monti makes a beautiful show piece.

Thank you! And they sure do! fast growing as well

 

[Reefman603]

Nice!
I still have one of these old school all in one tank.

Thank you! And yah this system has been great, some minor issues with the protein skimmer but other than that it’s been low maintenance

 

[GoVols]

Thank you! And yah this system has been great, some minor issues with the protein skimmer but other than that it’s been low maintenance

It looks great!!

We used to drop in the Deltec MC500 protein skimmer in the Max 250s

 

[Reefman603]

It looks great!!

We used to drop in the Deltec MC500 protein skimmer in the Max 250s

Thanks! And I’ll have to look into them