90 Gallon - 5 months in

[reefnewbie83177]

HI All,
Thought it was about time that I show off my tank. still quite bare, but one I get back from vacation will be adding some more sps frags. Here are my tank stats, and some pics:

90 gallon + 30 gallon sump w/ refugium
Flow: ehiem 1262, vortech MP40, Oceanstream (1600gph)
Skimmer: JNS SK2
150 Lbs Live Rock/80lbs live sand

Fish:
Yellow Tang
Sailfin Tang
Coral beauty Angel
Mated pair of Clarkii clowns

Corals:
Green Button
GSP
Frogspawn
Hammerhead
3 unknown acros
Montipora capitata
encrusting monti

Inverts
RBTA
Queen Conch
snails/crabs/etc

Chemistry
NH3 = 0
NO2 = 0
NO3 = 0
Phosphate = undetectable
pH = 8.0-8.3
Ca = 470
Alk = 8.7
Mg = 1350
T = 78.6

Criticism is always welcome. Thanks for looking
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[reefnewbie83177]

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[Chaotic Reefer4u]

just one word, "SPECTACULAR" keep up the good work your doing really well!

 

[bigfish14]

That is awesome! I love the rock work and lighting. I am setting up my 40 gallon right now and I hope it looks half as good as yours in 5 months

 

[reefnewbie83177]

Thanks!!! I completely forgot the lighting. I did a DIY LED setup with the following LED's from Rapid LED:

38 3W Cree RB
12 3W Cree CW
6 3W Blue
4 3W Cyan

 

[reefnewbie83177]

6.5 months in

6.5 months in

Well, I am now about 6.5 months into this adventure. Quite a bit has changed. Did a complete re-aquascape. The reason for this initially was to pull out a large rock that I had put GSP on (first newbie mistake, don't put GSP where you can't isolate it). It quickly began to take over and I did not want it to spread to I took the rock out, and then opened things up a bit. I also ordered a large frag pack (12 sps frags, milli's, platting, encrusting, etc) from the RC forum. So far my favorite is the $500 efflo. They all survived great and am very happy with the additions. I also added a Flame Hawk, neon dotty back, and a splendid dotty back. I added dosing pumps for calc/alk. Also, my RBTA split and they stayed in the same little crevice and very very happy. Below are some pics. I would love some feedback. Let me know what you think.

 

[Reefahholic]

very nice!

 

[hobbby3]

Lookin good! Following along for future updates.

 

[ReefObsessor805]

Looks great, also looking forward to future updates.