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Whats up guys and gals, just found this site looking up some stuff through google and a lot of my findings bring me here so figure why not join!
So here is the breakdown, been reefing for a little over 8 years started like most softies and worked my way up to the Stix! this is a great addiction and as long as my kids keep supporting me i will continue lol.... the wife is on the fence always haha.
Tank: 36X30X18 Acrylic with silent overflow 1 full siphon, and second is just open drain with ball valve.
Lighting: Custom 36X17X2 IceCap Illumination that i retro fitted 48LED's into and running 2 over driven T5 Purple Plus. All the LED's are currently running with no optics, and im waiting on my low profile optics from reefledlights, 70* for the XRE and 80* for the XPG R5's.
Flow: Dual MP40w's
Circulation: Eheim 1262 - Feeds the Display, Frag tank, GFO Rx, and Ca Rx.
Skimmer: BM 180CS cone(replaced my BK Mini 200 it was too big hardly ever got anything in the cup)
Reactors: AAT Calcium Reactor, TLF(Carbon, GFO, Bio-Pellets(made a cone out of acrylic for the TLF rx for better upflow) )
Control: APEX runs the Rx, LED's/T5's, Frag tank light, other things.....
System has been up and running a little over a year now, and have grown all my corals from 1/2" to 1 1/2" frags, all babies and am very proud to see them where they are now. Still have a long way to go and am excited to see them fill the tank eventually!
Fish list: Yellow Coris wrasse, Mystery wrasse, pair of Bartlet anthias, Hippo tang, Perc pair, 4 trimma/eviota gobies, there are more i just cant think of them right now lol.
ok enough talk here are some pictures :
FTS
Side
My baby: Tyree Purple Monster
Sump
Its a little older picture but only difference right now is i moved the reactor to the upper right side of sump, and the bottle went to where the reactor is sitting in this picture. Also my BubbleKing Mini 200 is no longer there. After the frist few cups i emptied it slowed a lot on the skimming and started collecting mostly at the neck lol, so it was time for a smaller skimmer. Went down from 1000lph of air to the BM 180CS cone which pulls 500lph.
LED Fixture:
Comments are welcome suggestions deff welcome and dont be afraid to say u hate it .
Thank you.
So here is the breakdown, been reefing for a little over 8 years started like most softies and worked my way up to the Stix! this is a great addiction and as long as my kids keep supporting me i will continue lol.... the wife is on the fence always haha.
Tank: 36X30X18 Acrylic with silent overflow 1 full siphon, and second is just open drain with ball valve.
Lighting: Custom 36X17X2 IceCap Illumination that i retro fitted 48LED's into and running 2 over driven T5 Purple Plus. All the LED's are currently running with no optics, and im waiting on my low profile optics from reefledlights, 70* for the XRE and 80* for the XPG R5's.
Flow: Dual MP40w's
Circulation: Eheim 1262 - Feeds the Display, Frag tank, GFO Rx, and Ca Rx.
Skimmer: BM 180CS cone(replaced my BK Mini 200 it was too big hardly ever got anything in the cup)
Reactors: AAT Calcium Reactor, TLF(Carbon, GFO, Bio-Pellets(made a cone out of acrylic for the TLF rx for better upflow) )
Control: APEX runs the Rx, LED's/T5's, Frag tank light, other things.....
System has been up and running a little over a year now, and have grown all my corals from 1/2" to 1 1/2" frags, all babies and am very proud to see them where they are now. Still have a long way to go and am excited to see them fill the tank eventually!
Fish list: Yellow Coris wrasse, Mystery wrasse, pair of Bartlet anthias, Hippo tang, Perc pair, 4 trimma/eviota gobies, there are more i just cant think of them right now lol.
ok enough talk here are some pictures :
FTS
Side
My baby: Tyree Purple Monster
Sump
Its a little older picture but only difference right now is i moved the reactor to the upper right side of sump, and the bottle went to where the reactor is sitting in this picture. Also my BubbleKing Mini 200 is no longer there. After the frist few cups i emptied it slowed a lot on the skimming and started collecting mostly at the neck lol, so it was time for a smaller skimmer. Went down from 1000lph of air to the BM 180CS cone which pulls 500lph.
LED Fixture:
Comments are welcome suggestions deff welcome and dont be afraid to say u hate it .
Thank you.
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