Ricky's 120 Gallon Mixed Reef

[Rickyrooz]

I figured since I won't be purchasing more equipment and livestock while I'm away at school I would post my current stocking list.

Tanks
120 Gallon Perfecto Glass Aquarium (48”x24”x24”) with internal overflow
30 Gallon Sump with Refugium (36”x12”x16”)

Water Movement Equipment
One Danner Mag Drive 12 (1,200 GPH, 110 watts)
One Danner Mag Drive 5 (500 GPH, 45 watts)
Loc-Line return hose (0.75”)
Two Hydor Koralia 4 powerheads (1,200 GPH, 12 watts)

Lighting Equipment
Two Lumenarc III mini Stealth Pendants (14.5”x14.5”x7”)
Two 250 watt 14K Phoenix DE Metal Halide Bulbs
Two 250 watt Lumatek Electronic Ballasts
One TEK II retrofit T-5 48” lighting 2x54watt (2 bulbs total)
One UVL Super Actinic 54 watt T-5 Bulb
One ATI Blue Plus 54 watt T-5 Bulb
Refugium lighting
One PAR38 Reflector 19 Watt / 5100K

Water Quality Equipment
6 Stage Melev’s/Bulk Reef Supply Reverse Osmosis with Two DI Filters (100 GPD)
Vertex IN-180 Protein Skimmer (rated for up to 180 gallons, 32 watts)
One Rena Cal 300 watt Heater (14”)
180 lbs. of Live Rock (Fiji, Tonga Fusion, Kaelini, Pukani)
90 lbs. of CaribSea Arag-Alive Fiji Pink Sand

Additives
Reef Crystals Salt Mix
Bulk Reef Supply Calcium Chloride
Baking Soda (Alkalinity Buffer)
Mag Pellet (Magnesium Chloride)
CVS Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate)
Seachem Strontium Chloride
Potassium Chloride
Tropic Marin Pro Coral Iodine
Bulk Reef Supply ROX 0.8 Activated Carbon
TB Aquatics Smart ReefTM RemPhos (GFO)

Test Kits
Portable Refractometer
API Test Kit (pH/Alkalinity/Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate)
ELOS Phosphate Test Kit
Salifert (Calcium/Magnesium/Strontium) Test Kit
ZEOvit Korallen-Zucht Potassium Test Kit

Fish List
9 Green Chromis (Chromis viridis) 22.5”
1 Chocolatedip Chromis (Chromis iomelas) 2.5”
1 Tail Spot Blenny (Ecsenius stigmatura) 2”
1 Female Bluestar Leopard Wrasse (Macropharyngodon bipartitus) 3.5”
1 Eightline Flasher Wrasse (Male) (Paracheilinus octotaenia) 3.5”
1 McCosker’s Flasher Wrasse (Male) (Paracheilinus mccoskeri) 3”
1 Red Fin Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis) 3"
1 Desjardini Sailfin Tang (Zebrasoma desjardinii) 12”
1 Blue Spotted Kole Tang (Ctenochaetus truncates) 7”
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17 Fish – 59” (1” for every 2.03 gallons)

Invert List
2 Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)
2 Blood Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius)
1 Sand Sifting Sea Star

Algae List
1 Chaetomorpha Algae

Corals
48 SPS
ORA Blue/Green Tortuosa
ORA Green Birdsnest
ORA Red Planet
ORA Chip’s Acropora
ORA Green Pocillopora Damicornis
ORA Pearlberry
ORA Hawkin’s Echinata
ORA German Green Acro with Blue Polyps
ORA Dustin’s Deepwater
ORA Purple Plasma
ORA Blue Millepora
ORA Roscoe’s Acropora
ORA Bird of Paradise
Oregon Tortuosa
Upscales Microcladus
Aqua Delight
Reefermadness Limeade
Garf Purple Tri-Color
True Superman Montipora
Orange Montipora Setosa
Tyree Sunset Montipora
Purple Monster
Orange with Blue Rim Montipora Capricornis
Skittles Granulosa
Fireside Tenuis
Purple/Blue 30,000 Leagues Lokani
Pink Lemonade
Blue Vermiculata
Purple/Green Austera
Purple/Blue/Green Plana
PP Purple Tri-Color Cerealis
Northwoods Tri-Color Valida
Tri-Color Stylophora “ATL Rainbow Cat’s Paw”
Green/Blue Rim Montipora Confusa
Pink Millepora
Green/Pink Verweyi
Eggplant Nana
Yellow “Banana” Caroliniana
Rainbow Nasuta
Ecto Cooler Millepora
Super Pink Pocillopora
Green/Lime Pocillopora
Sky Blue Turaki
Pink with Purple Polyp Stylophora
Forest Fire Digitata
Purple/Blue Turaki
Blue/Green Parilis
Orange/Green/Yellow Birdsnest

19 LPS
Green with Pink Tip Branching Frogspawn
Green Branching Hammer
Neon Green Trumpet
Deepwater Maroon with gold stripe Trachyphyllia geoffroyi
Peppermint Candy Cane Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Devil Run Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Watermelon Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Tangerine Warshock Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Rusty Ice Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Raspberry Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Tropical Punch Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Orange Sherburt Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Red Fractals Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Red & Orange Rainbow Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Incredible Hulk Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Red Blastomussa wellsi
Red with Blue center Blastomussa wellsi
Red & Green Trachyphyllia geoffroyi
Pink Fox Coral

10 Zoanthids
Montezuma's Revenge Zoanthid
Pink Panther Centered Zoanthid
Gorilla Nipples Zoanthid
Radioactive Green Dragon Eye Zoanthid
Blue Eyed Watermelon Zoanthid
Mean Green Zoanthid
Orange & Green Eagle Eye Zoanthid
Green Crossettes Zoanthid
Green Star Eye Zoanthid
Blue/Brown with White Centered Zoanthid

4 Mushrooms
Green with Orange Spotted Mushroom
Red with Blue Spotted Mushroom
Red Mushroom
Blue/Purple Mushroom

3 Soft Corals
Silver Branch Pulsing Xenia
Green Starburst Polyp
Chili Coral


I use Randy's DIY Two-Part solution (Recipe #2). My dosing schedule is as follows:

Daily: 125 mL of Calcium, 125 mL of alkalinity
Weekly: 40mL of Magnesium, two drops of Tropic Marin Pro Coral Iodine
Monthly: 25mL of Seachem Stability, 10mL of Seachem Reef Plus

 

[Rickyrooz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaYbpsW_K8g

My Dad added the mini Koralia to prevent the Frogspawn from touching the Superman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vD3lRxLNlo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-AL-xBYC0

 

[Rickyrooz]

I have been dosing Get Tanked's Potassium Chloride for the past few months and wanted to share how to calculate the amount of potassium to be added to our reef tanks. Potassium chloride is 52.5% by weight potassium. With this calculator, use the calcium to find your potassium. Desired potassium should be between 390 and 400 mg/L. Select Anhydrous CaCl2 (Dow's Peladow) and enter your current and desired potassium values. When entering in your systems water volume make sure to include the live rock and sand displacement (8.556 pounds of rock/sand displaces one gallon of saltwater). After you find how much "calcium" to add, multiply this result by 0.7 to find how much calcium needs to be added.

 

[Rickyrooz]

New pics
Ricky's Reef: Shots from the 8th

 

[ahayes13]

great new pics, everything is looking very nice ! :) i like the pic of the skimmer gunk :)

 

[Rickyrooz]

Thanks, it's working much better than the AquaC

 

[Rickyrooz]

Check out how to become a Super Male

 

[ahayes13]

wow, what a beauty !!!

 

[Rickyrooz]

FTS Top Down

 

[Rickyrooz]

This is a good one of the Sailfin, you can see the Sunset, Setosa & Superman Montipora's encrusting nicely in the background.

 

[bamachamp92]

Very, very, nice shots. I really like the top down.

 

[Rickyrooz]

The metal halides were replaced yesterday.

Before (Two 250 watt Phoenix 14K metal halides, one 54 watt UVL Super ActinicT5 and one 54 watt ATI Blue Plus T5).

After (Two 250 watt Phoenix 14K metal halides and two 54 watt ATI Blue Plus T5).

The growth is pretty amazing, I'm going to sell some of the corals I no longer have an interest in to make room for the corals I really like. I will be selling frags and colonies during my Thanksgiving break. Send me an email ([email protected]) if you're interested in anything.

 

[Rickyrooz]

I did some testing today with my new kill a watt meter.

Here are the results,

8 Blue LED’s – 3 watts
Koralia 4 (left side) – 16 watts
Koralia 4 (right side) – 16 watts
Koralia Nano – 6 watts
Rena Cal 300w Heater – 296 watts
Danner Mag Drive 12 (1,200 GPH) – 75 watts
Vertex IN-180 Skimmer – 32 watts
Lumatek 250w electronic ballast (left side) – 282 watts
Lumatek 250w electronic ballast (right side) - 278 watts
TEK II T5 retrofit (2x54w) – 126 watts
Refugium bulb – 19 watts
Cabinet light – 15 watts

Monthly usage = 282.52 KWH @ $0.22 per KWH = $62.15

 

[KEEPERZ]

Monthly usage = 282.52 KWH @ $0.22 per KWH = $62.15

now that's what I'm talking about, I don't want to know my usage =)

 

[Rickyrooz]

Left side

Right side

FTS

 

[Rickyrooz]

Here is a video with my new HD camcorder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHZ_9ToF5Bo

 

[MarvinsReef]

8 Line Flasher is the bombdigitty!!! :) :) :)

 

[amore169]

Those wrasses are really nice.

 

[Rickyrooz]

Thanks!

 

[Rickyrooz]

I am testing out the NP Biopellets to try and reduce my phosphate levels to 0.00 ppm, they are currently at 0.07 ppm according to the Hanna Phosphate Photometer and I still have hair algae growing on the overflow and on my frag rack. I added 500mL of the Biopellets in a Phosban 550 reactor powered by a Maxijet 900. The pellets look like vanilla chocolate chips and sink when placed in water. I will add 10 drops of Brightwell MB7 in front of the maxijet daily to help cultivate a bacteria population on the biopellets. I am starting with 500mL of Biopellets but in three to six months I will run a total of 1L of Biopellets.