Dallas' Mile-High SPS Reef on the Plateau

[dallasg]

Okay after almost 20years in this hobby and several tanks later i have decided to go all out and build me the tank i have always wanted, with all the bells and whistles. there are a few items i still need but i will get those when the time is right or its really needed. i am also shutting down all my other tanks and builds.

So since my house is a mile above sea-level i thought the name was fitting. I have been inspired by Reef in the Sky and Amfynn's tanks and a few others on RC in the SPS Forums and decided i would strive to get mine to those tanks. I will be using my own zeo-way based on Brightwell Aquatics additives.

Here are the juicy bits:

Tank 1200x800x500 starphire, 3 sides viewable, skinny overflow, dual 32mm and 20mm return
Stand is made from 50mm square-tubing, black powder coated. I will be building a wood facade for it from a dark ebony wood.

PCM UPS for return pump

Ellies 1200w Inverter to run heaters and vortech

Light unit - silver ceiling 8 x 54w on 3 timers
All globes are geisemann
Aquablue +
Aquablue +
Midday
Pure Actinic
Fiji Pink
Aquablue+
Aquablue +
Aquablue +

Flow
6 x 5000L sun-sun's
1 x Vortech MP10w
Return is 3000L

Skimmer is a bubble blaster 3000 internal

Reef Octo Zeolith Filters x 2

Reef Octo Kalkwasser Reactor

Reef Octo Phos Reactors, 1 for carbon, 1 for Brightwell ExtraxPhos and 1 for Brightwell NitratR and OrganicR

Reef Octo CarX + Pro PH Controller

Pro PH Monitor

3 x 300 Titanium heaters

Auto-top up unit, float and added and sonic sensor

Filter sock and bracket, modded to use Milk Socks and emergency overflow

Prodibio Starter Pack

Profilux 4 channel doser with controller
1. Brightwell Reef Code A
2. Brightwell Reef Code B
3. Brightwell BioFuel
4. Brightwell Koralle-VM

Also 3 sumps - 1 for all the reactors and skimmers
one for RO water and topup
and the other for Saltwater for auto WC

There will be no dsb, all filtration will be a hybrid Berlin & Zeolith method with 100kgs of LR in the DT and sumps. I have over engineered the filtration as i plan to stock this tank heavily with SPS and fish and inverts.

Equipment

More Equipment

Even more

Additives

Tank and light unit

please feel free to drop any advice, i was looking at Zeovit but to get it here in South Africa is difficult and costly, i am going to start this route, and if i can import zeovit will try that

 

[spaceboy]

please feel free to drop any advice, i was looking at Zeovit but to get it here in South Africa is difficult and costly, i am going to start this route, and if i can import zeovit will try that

Just FYI, there is actually a distributor in south africa now.

 

[dallasg]

who and where?

 

[somethingphishy]

nice lamp and not the t5s

 

[dallasg]

we dont get ATI here, else i would use them

 

[dallasg]

I found a local supplier of ZeoVIT and busy using today to decide if i am going that route or brightwell... thought that was hard but now scaping is going to be worse.

I am not sure if i should go natural scaping, or scaping to show off SPS... what you all think?

 

[dallasg]

8 weeks and here are my params, the only additives i am dosing at the mo is Fe and Io and reef bio-fuel
Nh4 0 seachem
No2 0 seachem
No3 10 ppm seachem
Po4 Almost 0 salifert
Alk. 2.5 seachem. 2.86 meq or 8 kdh salifert
Ca 500ppm salifert
Mg >1500ppm salifert
Ph 8.23 meter 8.15 seachem
Fe 0 seachem
Iodide <0.01 salifert
Iodate <0.03 salifert
Temp 24.9
Salinity 1026

 

[dallasg]

Update:

Fish
Yellow Belly Regal Tang - (Paracanthurus hepatus var.)
Vlamingi Unicorn Tang - (Naso vlamingi)
Scopas Tang - (Zebrasoma scopas)
Sailfin Tang - (Zebrasoma desjardini)
Humu Picasso Trigger - (Rhinecanthus aculeatus)
Sleeper Blue Dot Goby - (Valenciennea sexguttata)
Lawnmower Blenny - (Salarias fasciatus)
Purple Dartfish - (Nemateleotris decora)
Pink Spotted Watchman Goby - (Cryptocentrus leptocephalus)
2 x True Percula Clowns - (Amphiprion percula)
One Spot Foxface - (Siganus unimaculatus)

Inverts
Coral Banded Shrimp - (Stenopus hispidus)
2 x Blood Red Fire Shrimp - (Lysmata debelius)
1 x Sea Hare - (Aplysia sp.)
15 Hermits
1 x Needle Pin Cushion Urchin - (Echinostrephus sp.)
1 x Derasa Clam - (Tridacna derasa)
1x Squamosa Clam
1 x Sand Sifting Star Fish - (Astropecten polycanthus)
3 x Tiger Stripped Serpent Sea Stars - (Ophiolepsis superba)
1 x Red Brittle Star Fish - (Ophiocoma sp.)
5 x Feather Duster worms - (Sabellastarte sp.)
1 x Sebae Anemone - (Heteractis crispa)
1 x Riterri Anemone - (Heteractis magnifica)
1 x Porcelain crab - (Neopetrolisthes maculosus)

Corals
Montipora capricornis - red and green
Montipora digitata
Acropora sp.
Spiny Gorgonian - (Gorgonia sp.)
Doughnut Coral - (Acanthophyllia deshayesiana)
Button Coral - (Cynarina lacrymalis), (Trachyphyllia geoffroyi)
Torch Coral - (Euphyllia glabrescens)
Pineapple Coral - (Favia sp.)
Short Tenticle Plate Coral - (Fungia repanda)
Flower Pots - (Goniopora sp.)
Brain Coral - (Lobophyllia hemprichii), (Trachyphyllia radiata)
Sun Coral - (Tubastrea aurea)
Various Shrooms - (Actinodiscus sp.) , (Rhodactis sp.)
Various Ricordea - (Ricordea yuma), (Ricordea florida)
Kenya Tree - (Capnella sp.)
Cabbage Leather Coral - (Sinularia brassica)
Zoas & Paly's - (Zoanthus sp.) , (Protopalythoa sp.)
Blue Waving Hand Clove - (Anthelia sp.)
Star Burst Polyps - (Briareum sp.)
Pocilipora sp.
Various SPS frags

 

[dallasg]

 

[dallasg]

oki today i am going to do another param test and refine my neozeo dosing etc
also going to look at adding some more sps and zoas

also finally finished my new sump design and going to start building it tonight

 

[wizardx322]

nice tank i like the rock work