NikkiA
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Very nice!
We just set it up last month, it is the 160xl tank.
We went with maxspect led lights, an XP 5000 external reef octopus skimmer, MR1 XL reactors (carbon and phosban), a pro calcium calcium reactor, a 120g sump, an 80g frag tank as well. The system is all plumed together, with a UV sterilizer to prevent pests from reaching the display. Plumbing goes through our living room, down into our basement, and back up.
Our frag tank is lit by a powermodule (ati) 6 bulb t5 fixture. All of the equipment is in a true fish room, complete with RO/DI, mixing containers, and slop sink. We wanted the ease of managing a single system, and we knew we wanted a frag tank and a display, so building a fish room, and setting up one system, was the right thing for us. It also gives mike and me the ability to maintain the system more easily- we can take a single piece of equipment, or the display, or the frag tank, offline and work on it, while the rest of the system runs.
The tank is still in baby stages, but we moved all of our livestock out of our small tanks and into this system the day before hurricane sandy hit. We have in the display, a Picasso clown, a black ice clown, a joculator angel, sunburst anthia, Swiss guard basslet, yasha goby pair, red linkia, maxima clam, two coco worms, two cleaner shrimp and a fire shrimp. The tank is not yet covered, so most of our fish are living in the basement in a 65g tank plumed into the main system, with a cover.
Currently housed in the basement: candy basslet (no, he will not be going into the display- he usually lives in our 12g nano, which we run cold & dark), magnificent goby, aurielais anthia pair, nahaki's fairy wrasse, bell's flasher wrasse, false Shephardi angel, and assorted small gobies.
In the frag tank( which is plumed into the main system) we have about 30 acropora frags, about 20 chalices (all under 3"), 4 scolys, assorted zoas and plays, and everything from dendros to cyphestra. As we get everyhting healthy (lots of brown acros following the hurricane), we will transition the coral into the display. The goal is an SPS dominated reef, with lots of small anthias and wrasses, and chalices in the shady parts of the system.
Are you on reef central?
We just set it up last month, it is the 160xl tank.
We went with maxspect led lights, an XP 5000 external reef octopus skimmer, MR1 XL reactors (carbon and phosban), a pro calcium calcium reactor, a 120g sump, an 80g frag tank as well. The system is all plumed together, with a UV sterilizer to prevent pests from reaching the display. Plumbing goes through our living room, down into our basement, and back up.
Our frag tank is lit by a powermodule (ati) 6 bulb t5 fixture. All of the equipment is in a true fish room, complete with RO/DI, mixing containers, and slop sink. We wanted the ease of managing a single system, and we knew we wanted a frag tank and a display, so building a fish room, and setting up one system, was the right thing for us. It also gives mike and me the ability to maintain the system more easily- we can take a single piece of equipment, or the display, or the frag tank, offline and work on it, while the rest of the system runs.
The tank is still in baby stages, but we moved all of our livestock out of our small tanks and into this system the day before hurricane sandy hit. We have in the display, a Picasso clown, a black ice clown, a joculator angel, sunburst anthia, Swiss guard basslet, yasha goby pair, red linkia, maxima clam, two coco worms, two cleaner shrimp and a fire shrimp. The tank is not yet covered, so most of our fish are living in the basement in a 65g tank plumed into the main system, with a cover.
Currently housed in the basement: candy basslet (no, he will not be going into the display- he usually lives in our 12g nano, which we run cold & dark), magnificent goby, aurielais anthia pair, nahaki's fairy wrasse, bell's flasher wrasse, false Shephardi angel, and assorted small gobies.
In the frag tank( which is plumed into the main system) we have about 30 acropora frags, about 20 chalices (all under 3"), 4 scolys, assorted zoas and plays, and everything from dendros to cyphestra. As we get everyhting healthy (lots of brown acros following the hurricane), we will transition the coral into the display. The goal is an SPS dominated reef, with lots of small anthias and wrasses, and chalices in the shady parts of the system.
Are you on reef central?
Can I also be a member of your club and talk about my tank and my freand's tanks?