Wolf-Head Mountain Reef Tank- 200 gallons

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(edit) I’ve recently been told I was not very clear on my tank size in the thread..I reviewed it and they were right. It takes too long on this thread to see that. This is a 200 gallon mixed reef (planned) mostly softies... I needed a bioload to get the tank to ..”grow”... mature. I am raising softies that will get rehomed. ...end edit

So here is my build thread : ) I think I am at a good starting place. It took me 4 months of research to get this far. At this point, I am in that horrible “ I just wanna put stuff in it phase” system, water and rock right now : ( I am a patient guy... but dang. Lol

I have been reading a few other build threads... some of you guys are amazing! Me? Yeah... I cheated. Lol. I bought my way to this point ...now the wait for livestock

here Is my first picture. : ) can you see the wolf head? : )
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The next thing I did was take care of the plumbing : )

I wanted this to be easy to take care off. 5 gallon buckets gets old! (Yes, I’m lazy). You can kinna see the reverse osmosis system in the pics too : ) automated top offs (did I mention I’m lazy?)

the sheet rock has now been repaired and painted. You cannot tell I did anything to those walls now.

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Here is the lighting system... it’s all LED. 2 Hydra 32s and 1 Hydra 26 in the center

it has more blue in it during my prime viewing times... late evenings... than I really care for. It makes taking good pics almost impossible : ( but... it is still miles better than what I had on my last tank!

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I thought I’d drop in my feeding regimen here.

This is just some good dry fish food I put it in an airtight bowl. They get 4 scoops of this everyday. I always feed this first.

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these are the other foods I use.

Mysis frozen shrimp. I have it cut up into littles squares already. They get half of one of the squares everyday
PE Mysis PE energetics 1 per day

I use 2 teaspoons of the ROE and 1 teaspoon Oyster feast every 2 days
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I am working up a species list I have in the tank so far. (I am struggling with the names of a few of them)
 
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It has an overflow drain that goes straight into the sump and a primary drain going to the sump for the filtration system.

there is a separate pump inside the tank that pumps water out for water changes. That’s the other line you see on the left side in the back.

does that answer your question? : )
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Spent the day doing maintenance... cleaning. I glued down a few more of the corals. Tested my water and my numbers are great! Really happy about that!

working on getting some camera equipment... in lieu of that, I downloaded an app that takes better pics of my tank than just my iPad can do.
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Tanks looking great.

saw that bubble coral. One of my favorite. I don’t see a lot of them. System looks good.

Grab some more pics as you go
 
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Tanks looking great.

saw that bubble coral. One of my favorite. I don’t see a lot of them. System looks good.

Grab some more pics as you go
Thank you. I have been taking a lot of pics : ) I think I am gonna invest in a camera! (I’ve kinna always wanted one anyway : ) this is just a good excuse to do it lol
 
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Made a decision recently to head down the SPS path, so I have been making some equipment editions. I ordered a 3 stage dosing system today. My LFS guy will install it next week.

I installed the calcium reactor today. I also added two bio filter media blocks to my sump (you can see them in the sump pic too

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Made a decision recently to head down the SPS path, so I have been making some equipment editions. I ordered a 3 stage dosing system today. My LFS guy will install it next week.

I installed the calcium reactor today. I also added two bio filter media blocks to my sump (you can see them in the sump pic too

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And now i find out the reactor set up is a waste smh.. make lemonade right. I am going to switch out the media in the reactor to either carbon of gfo need to read some more. The 3 stage dosing system will handle the calcium : )
 
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