Fadi's Reef 180 Gallons sps dominated Tank

fadi_abu_tahoun · Oct 5, 2016

FTS taken September 9th 2017

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Hello everyone, I am Fadi a Jordanian Reefer lives in Riyadh - Saudi Arabia.

Its been almost 6 years last time I have kept a reef aquarium, the previous one was 50 gallon with lps and softies.

I am back with a bigger tank, the tank arrived at June the 3rd 2016 and now it is 4 months Old. 180 gallon tank with net total water volume of 200 in both tank and sump minus rocks and sand

Tank: 180 Gallons
Custom Made by Blue Life KSA, 72" X 24" X 24"
3 sides Starphire Tempered glass 1/2" Eurobrace bottom and top
Center 24" external Overflow with BeanAnimal Overflow system all Plumbings are 1.5" inches

Sump: 60 Gallons
Custom Made by Blue Life KSA, 40"L X 20"W X 18"H

Return Pump:
Jebao DC - 12000, all 1.5" plumping with manifold to feed media reactors. the return is reduced then to 3/4" with LOC-LINE fittings.

Skimmer: Super Reef Octopus SRO 3000 In-Sump Protein Skimmer
Light: 2 Radion xr30w G3 pro, and 1 G4's in the middle.

Flow: 2X APEX WAV

Jebao Programmable Auto Dosing Pump DP-4, currently I Dose 3 ml/hour of Randy 2 part recipe #1. using Seachem Advantage Calcium and baked Arm & Hammer baking soda

JBJ ATO connected to Aqualifter pump

2 X TLF Phosban Reactor, filled Seachem matrix carbon. and one for aquamaxx GFO.

APEX Controller
All Equipment are connected to Classic Apex Controller with Temperature, PH and ORP Probes

APEX AFS
APEX WMX to control Radions via Apex

Live rock I had around 50 pounds from the old tank that were dried, bleached, acid bathed and stored for years. The rest of rock around 75 pounds where collected from the red sea. will be adding more in sump soon

Sand: 88 pounds of Blue Treasure coral sand sand

Brightwell Microbacter7 for 10 days to start and boost biological filtration.

Current Live Stock
Fish:

Emperor Angelfish (Pomacanthus imperator)

Lamarck's Angelfish (Genicanthus lamarck)

5 X Dispar Anthias (Pseudanthias dispar)

Blotched Anthias (Odontanthias borbonius)

5 X Purple queen Anthias (Pseudanthias Tuka) 2 males, 3 femails

2 X Black Ice Ocellaris Clownfish, (Amphiprion ocellaris )

Platinum Percula Clownfish, (Amphiprion percula)

Wheeler's Shrimp Goby (Amblyeleotris wheeleri)

Diamond Watchman Goby (Valenciennea puellaris)

Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)

Powder Blue Tang (Acanthurus leucosternon)

Purple Tang (Zebrasoma xanthurum)

Ruby Head Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus cf cyanopleura)

Six Line Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia)

Melanurus Wrasse (Halichoeres melanurus)

Exquisite Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus exquisitus)

Corals Sps Dominated Tank with few softies and LPS:

SPS:

Acropora Turaki

Acropora Red Dragon

Acropora Strawberry Shortcake

Acropora Ranbow Shortcake

Acropora Valida

Acropora Exquisita

3 X Acropora Tenuis Metallic Blue, Green, and Blue

Acropora Granulosa

Acropora Hyacinthus

Acropora Loripes

Acropora Tortuosa

Acropora Suharsonoi

Acropora Aculeus

Acropora Caroliniana

Acropora Echinata

Montipora Foliosa Green And Red

Montipora Superman

Montipora Setosa

Montipora Undata

Montipora reverse sunset

Montipora digitata red

ORA Red Planet

ORA Bird of Paradise

ORA Green birdsnest

Blue Matrix

Purple Wild Red Sea Acropora

Green Red Sea Acropora

green pocillopora

green birdsnest

LPS:

Purple Goniopora

Green Goniopora

Red Goniopora

Yellow Goniopora

Metallic Green Purple tip Goniopora

Green Torch Coral (Euphyllia glabrescens)

Green Frogspawn Coral (Euphyllia divisa)

Few Acans

Few Blastomussa wellsi

Inverts

Blue Maxima Clam

4 Red Sea Clams

Red Sea Marbled Linckia Star

2 X Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)

2 X Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius)

Banded Boxer Shrimp (Stenopus hispidus)

Infinite Number of Snails that keep breeding :

Astraea Turbo Snail (Astraea tecta)

Banded Trochus Snail (Trochus sp.)

Nassarius Snail (Nassarius distortus)

Bumble Bee Snail (Engina sp.)

Nerite Snail (Nerita sp.)

Turban Snail (Tectus fenestratus)

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maroun.c · Oct 5, 2016

Tank looks great Fadi.
Can't wait to see those corals become colonies and fill up.

fadi_abu_tahoun · Oct 5, 2016

maroun.c said:
Tank looks great Fadi.
Can't wait to see those corals become colonies and fill up.

Thanks Maroon, still long way to go and I need to add new extra lights.

fadi_abu_tahoun · Oct 16, 2016

Quick video Update

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skidrow52 · Oct 17, 2016

Congratulations!

fadi_abu_tahoun · Oct 17, 2016

skidrow52 said:
Congratulations!

Thanks Adnan, hope to see you soon, come and check the tank in person

ace_92101 · Oct 17, 2016

A nice start! By the way, how are the aquarium shops in Saudi Arabia?

fadi_abu_tahoun · Oct 17, 2016

ace_92101 said:
A nice start! By the way, how are the aquarium shops in Saudi Arabia?

Very bad shops in Saudi Arabia, except one that is trying to provide good services, you rarely find anything good and the prices are too expensive, all of my equipment was bought and shipped from USA. except the radion lights i got them from local Ecotech distributor. this shop have sometimes nice fish and corals but I need to be there at the first day the shipment arrives or else it is all sold out.

I traveled to Bahrain (300 miles Drive) just to get few sps frags

fadi_abu_tahoun · Oct 17, 2016

I am getting all of my equipment and supplies from Amazon and Marinedepot, I used to buy from BRS but last month they canceled my order because they do not want to ship internationally

fadi_abu_tahoun · Oct 22, 2016

justindinh24 said:
Damn.. NIce tank set up but too far to drive to pick up CORALS

Thanks

fadi_abu_tahoun · Feb 18, 2017

February Update

February Update

Time For update, Installed new Radion XR30 G4 in the middle, and I am far impressed by this new light, some photos

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fadi_abu_tahoun · Feb 18, 2017

Continue..

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fadi_abu_tahoun · Feb 18, 2017

Fish Time

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fadi_abu_tahoun · Feb 18, 2017

More Fish Photos

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dave.m · Feb 18, 2017

Congrats, Fadi. That FTS is a real show stopper!

Dave.M

fadi_abu_tahoun · Feb 18, 2017

dave.m said:
Congrats, Fadi. That FTS is a real show stopper!

Dave.M

Thanks Dave for your kind words, I am glad that you liked it. I hope the corals grows out into a an attractive natural reef in the future.

fadi_abu_tahoun · Feb 25, 2017

Maxima Clam and some fish added to tank
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