Thanks everyone for the kind comments. I can post up some pics showing the progression of things and I'll give you guys a run down as to what's involved.
The tank is a 150 gallon Marineland Deep Dimension with Starphire glass and the standard Monterrey stand. It came with the canopy, but I absolutely hate canopies and gave it away.
Lighting is a single, single ended 250 watt Coralvue 14K metal halide with a Lumenmax Elite reflector. I made the support arm from some standard conduit and just bent it up, made a match plate to mount the reflector and painted the entire thing flat black. The ballast is an old school Blue Wave pulse start ballast.
The sump is a standard Sea Life Systems acrylic sump. It holds maybe 20 gallons or so, not too sure. I modified the baffles to allow for the skimmer height. Skimmer is a Super Reef Octopus SRO1000INT rated for 150 gallons. The return is a Mag 12 and I'm running a BRS dual reactor filled only with carbon. I have an ATO with a standard glass 10 gallon tank beneath the stand as well filled with Kalk. I have a small pump in the reservoir that I plug in for a minute or 2 each day to agitate the Kalk. Inside the sump, I actually do what most don't - I've packed the main drain area with sponges to keep noise down, to culture bacteria and catch some misc things. I never rinse them.
Inside the tank are 4 Tunze nano streams - (2) 6025's and (2) 6045's.
There's only about 80 lbs of rock that was all dead base rock when I started it. I seeded it only with a few pieces of live rock and from what rock corals and other frags were attached to.
I feed heavily, almost to disgusting levels for some folks... I feed Microcrabs 2 to 3 times a day, and nori once a day. Twice a week, I feed a homemade blend that I get from the LFS (more for the corals) and mix it with frozen PE mysis. I culture my own baby brine shrimp and feed that every 2 days as well. Once a week, I feed Coral Frenzy at night. I think feeding the tank is one of my favorite things.
Fish list is a mated pair of maroon clowns that lay eggs religiously, a lieutenant tang, a royal gramma and a king starry blenny. I have various inverts including a pair of cleaner shrimp, a fire shrimp, a large serpent star, a sally lightfoot, various blue leg hermits, astrea snails and a self sustaining population of cerith snails.
Corals are mostly softies, but I have a few SPS corals too - a green slimer, purple bonsai, and 2 different types of birdsnest corals and I keep a blue maxima clam. I'm holding a couple of LPS corals for a friend temporarily as well.
Enough of my ramblings - here's some more pics. The pics at the beginning of the trhead are the most recent. These are pretty much progression shots over the past year: