My starter reef

Zachary.gingell · Feb 16, 2014

Ok so I have had a few people ask me to make a tank thread so here it is!

Ok so this tank is a 75 gal dt with a 55 gal refugium sump with a propagation chamber. I'm using an Eheim jager 250 watt heater a Reef octopus skimmer an aqueon 2500 return pump an eshopps overflow and a hydor koralia circulation pump. Now for lighting fixtures I have the current usa's orbit marine led with the dual ramp timer pro and over the dt I have 2 Radion xr30w with the rail and hanging kits and reef link to control it wirelessly

In the refugium I have Carib sea mineral mud and cheato
Prop chamber has live sand and a frag rack
The dt is live sand and aragonite and about 100 ish lbs of live rock

Livestock
Hippo tang
Yellow tang
2 clowns
Neon goby
Springeri dotti
Snails
Hermits
Emerald crab

Corals
Couple mushrooms
Couple acros including a pink birds nest
Green star pollop
Dampnia
Pink hammer
Green hammer
Duncan
Rose bubble
Some pink clover
Meteor showers
Ring of fire zoa
Gold zoa
Nuclear green death zoa
Starburst zoa
A couple other zoas I don't know the name of
Frogspawn
Bonsai acro and a couple things I can't remember what they even are lol

Zachary.gingell · Feb 16, 2014

The orbit marine is over the propagation chamber and refugium since I forgot to mention that

Reefing Madness · Feb 16, 2014

powers2001 · Feb 17, 2014

Subscribed.

Longnose Hawkfish · Feb 18, 2014

Nice tank!

revhtree · Feb 18, 2014

Looking good!

Zachary.gingell · Feb 18, 2014

Thank you! It has definitely been a long process with many frequent learning curves lots of ups and downs but it has totally been worth it and I'm so glad to have forums like this with so many people willing to lend a helping hand and give advice!

powers2001 · Mar 2, 2014

Can you program the orbit marine leds with a computer?

Zachary.gingell · Mar 2, 2014

No the only programming it allows is done off of the remote it has a few preset scenarios like storms and clouds but for normal use it has the ability to ramp the whites and blues separately at any time you choose and to what ever intensity you choose. It also can do moon lights for a couple hours a night however it won't let you moon light for more then 4 or 6 hours. Also it only allows to ramp each color over a max of 15 min so 30 min ramp total and you can't program any other periods just up once a day and down once a day but overall I think it's still a great light and it seems to be able to handle sps

Zachary.gingell · Mar 21, 2014

Ok since I have not updated in a while I figured I would give a little update!
So my springeri dotti died due to my stupidity I tired to catch it an caught it in the side with the net because he was a fast little sucker and now have a cleaner shrimp and a pj Cardinal and I went to a frag swap and bought around 40 new frags to seed the tank to many to list various acros zoas palys caps. Etc lots of stuff! I also re did my rockwork pics of it Coming soon!