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Just some specs on my new tank - pics up soon!
Set Up Date : June 2003 - contents moved from existing 75 gallon plus assorted mini reefs.
Tank Size (LxHxW | Volume): 72x28.5x24|215 gallon Oceanic RR
Sump Size (LxHxW | Volume): 36x14x18 | Oceanic Model 3 Sump
Live Rock : 150 lbs
Live Sand : 1"-2" in main tank caribsea special grade plus crushed coral, 8" southdown in attached refugium
Lighting (Type | Wattage | Photoperiod): 3x250 Watt DE HQI , Reef Optix 3 pendants and blueline Ballasts - 3 x 13k Geissman Megachrome bulbs, 2x Weiss Moonlights , Tank also receives a fair amount of natural sunlight during the day.
Protein Skimmer : Euroreef CS8-2
Biological Filtration : Inline 24x24x24 60 gallon refugium fed by split return from return pump and gravity feeding back to sump.
Chemical Filtration (Type): Carbon run 24x7 - changed once a month.
Circulation (Rate | Brand | Model) : 2x Tunze Stream 6100 - 3200gph each ,Return Pump (Rate): 1 x Eheim 1262 - 800gph return
pH (Morning | Evening): 8.2|8.1
Temperature (Range | oC | oF): 78-80 F
Specific Gravity / Salintity (ppt): 1.024
Alkalinity (meq/l): 3.0
Calcium (ppm): 400
Ammonia (ppm): 0
Nitrite (ppm): 0
Phosphate (ppm): Unknown - run Phosphate/Silicate magnet in sump and change every few months.
Fish : Regal Tang, 2 Yellow Watchmen Gobies, Lyretail Hawkfish, Rainford Goby, Powder Brown Tang, Leopard Wrasse
Corals : Trachyphyllia, Tubastrea, Pachyclavuria, Pterogorgia, Platygyra, Cycloseris, Scolymia, Unidentified misc Monitpora and Acropora frags, Miscellanoeous Zooanthids, Encrusting Favia, digitate Porites
Invertebrates : 2 x Cleaner shrimp, Fighting Conch, 20 Nassarius, 50 Micro hermits, 4 Scarlet reef hermits, 10 Astrella Snails, Pistol Shrimp (in fuge - troublemaker) , Burgundy Linckia, 4 Serpent Stars, Refugium has numerous plants and macroalgaes Mangroves, Syringiodium grass, Chaetomorpha, Halimeda, Gracilaria, Ulva, and various other red and green algaes, Tridacna maxima, Hippopus hippopus, Unknown ugly black sand eating cucumber.
Maintenance Program : 10% Water change once a month - clean skimmer weekly, siphon detritus out of sump whenever I remember too, currently using Kalk for topoff but will have a Ca Reactor going on-line in the next few weeks.
Additional Information : All replacement water is RO/DI - level is kept constant by Tunze osmolator which doses water to DIY Kalkreactor which feeds into sump. Korallin Ca reactor and Tunze CO2 Controller going in soon. Durso overflows installed in place of noisy Oceanic stock overflows - tank has no bracing just 3/4" glass and is ridiculously solid and heavy. Stand is 96", tank takes up first 72" and 24" refugium takes up last 2 feet. Also planning on putting small cryptic filter inline under tank if I can find room and a way to plumb it. Will be trying a micron bag under return lines in sump to see if I can cut down on some of the fine particulate matter. A few of the fish are going to come out soon if I can find a good home for them - likely the fairy wrasse (skittish and gets picked on) and dwarf lion (I want to get a few more rainfords and when he gets bigger I am sure the smaller fish will be in danger), possibly the betta too (one of my favorites but gets outcompted for food very easily). The yellow gobies have been spawning often over the past 2 years I've had them and I may move them to their own tank eventually and try to raise some of the fry.
Set Up Date : June 2003 - contents moved from existing 75 gallon plus assorted mini reefs.
Tank Size (LxHxW | Volume): 72x28.5x24|215 gallon Oceanic RR
Sump Size (LxHxW | Volume): 36x14x18 | Oceanic Model 3 Sump
Live Rock : 150 lbs
Live Sand : 1"-2" in main tank caribsea special grade plus crushed coral, 8" southdown in attached refugium
Lighting (Type | Wattage | Photoperiod): 3x250 Watt DE HQI , Reef Optix 3 pendants and blueline Ballasts - 3 x 13k Geissman Megachrome bulbs, 2x Weiss Moonlights , Tank also receives a fair amount of natural sunlight during the day.
Protein Skimmer : Euroreef CS8-2
Biological Filtration : Inline 24x24x24 60 gallon refugium fed by split return from return pump and gravity feeding back to sump.
Chemical Filtration (Type): Carbon run 24x7 - changed once a month.
Circulation (Rate | Brand | Model) : 2x Tunze Stream 6100 - 3200gph each ,Return Pump (Rate): 1 x Eheim 1262 - 800gph return
pH (Morning | Evening): 8.2|8.1
Temperature (Range | oC | oF): 78-80 F
Specific Gravity / Salintity (ppt): 1.024
Alkalinity (meq/l): 3.0
Calcium (ppm): 400
Ammonia (ppm): 0
Nitrite (ppm): 0
Phosphate (ppm): Unknown - run Phosphate/Silicate magnet in sump and change every few months.
Fish : Regal Tang, 2 Yellow Watchmen Gobies, Lyretail Hawkfish, Rainford Goby, Powder Brown Tang, Leopard Wrasse
Corals : Trachyphyllia, Tubastrea, Pachyclavuria, Pterogorgia, Platygyra, Cycloseris, Scolymia, Unidentified misc Monitpora and Acropora frags, Miscellanoeous Zooanthids, Encrusting Favia, digitate Porites
Invertebrates : 2 x Cleaner shrimp, Fighting Conch, 20 Nassarius, 50 Micro hermits, 4 Scarlet reef hermits, 10 Astrella Snails, Pistol Shrimp (in fuge - troublemaker) , Burgundy Linckia, 4 Serpent Stars, Refugium has numerous plants and macroalgaes Mangroves, Syringiodium grass, Chaetomorpha, Halimeda, Gracilaria, Ulva, and various other red and green algaes, Tridacna maxima, Hippopus hippopus, Unknown ugly black sand eating cucumber.
Maintenance Program : 10% Water change once a month - clean skimmer weekly, siphon detritus out of sump whenever I remember too, currently using Kalk for topoff but will have a Ca Reactor going on-line in the next few weeks.
Additional Information : All replacement water is RO/DI - level is kept constant by Tunze osmolator which doses water to DIY Kalkreactor which feeds into sump. Korallin Ca reactor and Tunze CO2 Controller going in soon. Durso overflows installed in place of noisy Oceanic stock overflows - tank has no bracing just 3/4" glass and is ridiculously solid and heavy. Stand is 96", tank takes up first 72" and 24" refugium takes up last 2 feet. Also planning on putting small cryptic filter inline under tank if I can find room and a way to plumb it. Will be trying a micron bag under return lines in sump to see if I can cut down on some of the fine particulate matter. A few of the fish are going to come out soon if I can find a good home for them - likely the fairy wrasse (skittish and gets picked on) and dwarf lion (I want to get a few more rainfords and when he gets bigger I am sure the smaller fish will be in danger), possibly the betta too (one of my favorites but gets outcompted for food very easily). The yellow gobies have been spawning often over the past 2 years I've had them and I may move them to their own tank eventually and try to raise some of the fry.
