Lets do the Braging Rights Thread

[EmDy]

1. Who made your Tank and whats the Dims>

Acrylic, bought it used from savethereef, 6x2x2. Up and running for cycle since 07/27/09, coral instroduced to the tank on 10/25/09.

2. Who made your stand?

Robert, savethereef, repainted by me

3. Any Controllers to control your tank?
AC3 to control light, co2, heater, fan, vho and refugium.
http://www.reeftronics.net/?page_id=736

4. What lights do you have?
48'' 8 bulbs Tek T5 and VHO for sunset effect.

5. Do you have a calcium Reactor?
Deltec 600 with D&D media.

6. What do you use for water movement?
2 Tunze 6100 and 1 6101 on 7096, wavebox on 7091

7. Any other Reactors?
Korallin Biodenitrator and Phosban reactor with WarnerMarine Phosar.

8. Return pump for your tank? Submersible or External?
Iwaki 1000gph

9.Skimmer for your tank?
BK Deluxe Internal 200.

10. Chillers or Fans for temp Control.
1/3 JBJ hook up to Ranco

11. Whats your live stock?
Huge 14'' Achilles tang, small powder blue tang, algae blenny, sleeper goby, redtail wrasse and multicolor wrasse.

12. SPS, LPS, FOWLER, Mixed Reef?
Mostly SPS but will have to put some softies to keep spouse happy.

13. Barebottom / Deep Sand Bed / Shallow Sand bed/ Etc what do you have?
200 lbs Seaflor Special Grade Reef Sand.

14.Sump Configuaration?
custom multi chamber

15. Whats your Parameters?
Temp 77.9-78.01
Calcium 420
Alk 8.2-8.5
Mg 1300
pH 8.1-8.2
Salinity 1.025, need to raise it a bit
NO4 0
PO4 .08, will try to bring it down to <.03

16. Where is your tank in your home or office?
Garage

17. What kind of rock is in your tank?
I have mixed rock and open aquascape type.

18. What type of Salt do you use? or NSW? Do you own a RODI
NSW

And Finally the FTS

 

[gordon2726]

1. Who made your Tank and whats the Dims?

Tank was made by Leemar. 36"L x 22"W x 24"H front & 2 sides Starphire with a corner overflows. Has a 1.5 inch drains and two 3/4 returns.

2. Who made your stand?

Me.

3. Any Controllers to control your tank?
ACIII

4. What lights do you have?
36'' Marister fixture, 2 x 250w Phoenix 14k DE mh and 2 x 39w URI Super Actinic T5

5. Do you have a calcium Reactor?
No.

6. What do you use for water movement?
2 x MP40W Vortech

7. Any other Reactors?
TLF Reactor with BRS Carbon

8. Return pump for your tank? Submersible or External?
Red Dragon 3.5s Submersible

9.Skimmer for your tank?
Bubble King 200 Mini

10. Chillers or Fans for temp Control.
Duel style 8" window fan from Walmart

11. Whats your live stock?
Blue hippo, Purple fire fish, Mystery wrasses, Borbonius Anthias, Barlette Anthias, 2 x Perculas Clowns

12. SPS, LPS, FOWLER, Mixed Reef?
Mainly SPS

13. Barebottom / Deep Sand Bed / Shallow Sand bed/ Etc what do you have?
Bare bottom

14.Sump Configuaration?
Skimmer/Return

15. Whats your Parameters?
Temp 77.5-79.5
Calcium 445
Alk 9.5
Salinity 1.026
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0

16. Where is your tank in your home or office?
Home, next to dinner table

17. What kind of rock is in your tank?
90lbs of Fiji Rocks

18. What type of Salt do you use? or NSW? Do you own a RODI
I use Instant Ocean Salt. I have a RODI

Tank Shot taken 1 month ago (I've removed all the sand 2 weeks ago, sorry no updated pic)

 

[aquariumclown]

Nice profiles everyone.

There should be a question for what you dose.

gordon2726, since you don't have a ca reactor, what do you do for supplementation?

 

[gordon2726]

Nice profiles everyone.

There should be a question for what you dose.

gordon2726, since you don't have a ca reactor, what do you do for supplementation?

I have 2 dosers from BRS, one for Cal and one for Alk. Both dosers controlled by AC3.

 

[aquariumclown]

I have 2 dosers from BRS, one for Cal and one for Alk. Both dosers controlled by AC3.

What do you do for magnesium or test for phosphates? I guess there needs to be a bragging rights thread about parameters :lol:

Also missing is maturity, how long has the tank been up.

 

[gordon2726]

What do you do for magnesium or test for phosphates? I guess there needs to be a bragging rights thread about parameters :lol:

Also missing is maturity, how long has the tank been up.

+1 for more info.

I test magnesium every 2-3 weeks and adjust the dose needed to 1350ppm. I manually add about 100mls per week of BRS magnesium mixed solution. I only test phosphates every few months. I usually can tell high/low phosphate by looking at my tank and corals. This tank has been running for 14 months.

 

[Lagger]

16. Where is your tank in your home or office?
Garage

LOL, a peninsula tank in your garage? hope it doesnt take up your wives parking space

Tank looks good John ---->T5's!?!!!! :eek1:

 

[EmDy]

LOL, a peninsula tank in your garage? hope it doesnt take up your wives parking space

Tank looks good John ---->T5's!?!!!! :eek1:

I kicked her car out for my tank...thanks for your kind word but it's not even on my scale yet since it's so new.

 

[scrapz]

1. Who made your Tank and whats the Dims>

No idea, bought it used from my LFS. It's a custom 180 84x24x20 eurobraced & trimmed.

2. Who made your stand?

Well the tank and stand came as one, literally. The paint was semi-wet when they put the tank on, guess it chemically bonded.

3. Any Controllers to control your tank?

Just bought a RK Lite L3 off a fellow reefer. Pretty much controls everything in my tank. I run 2 pumps and the return pump on another circuit in case of controller failure.

4. What lights do you have?

Recently switched over to ATI Sunpower 6x54 HO T5.

Bulb Config:
ATI Blue+
ATI Blue+
ATI Aquablue
KZ Fiji Purple
ATI Blue+
ATI Blue+


5. Do you have a calcium Reactor?
Yes, a Koralin c1502. tank really took off once this was put online.

6. What do you use for water movement?2x modded tunze 6045. I will need to purchase 2 more

7. Any other Reactors?

Three Little Fishes Phosban reactor filled with carbon.

8. Return pump for your tank? Submersible or External?

Some Rio pump. upgrading to a eheim 1262 when I have more funds

9.Skimmer for your tank?

Warner Marine AS-200

10. Chillers or Fans for temp Control.

Window box fan. didn't have to hook up my chiller this year

11. Whats your live stock?
3x chromis,2x perculas, 2x yellow coris wrasse, spotted mandarin 1-eyed bartlett, anthias, flame hawkfish, mystery wrasse, something flasher wrasse, hippo blue tang, yellow tang, sailfin tang, eyestripe surgeonfish, & a BTA

12. SPS, LPS, FOWLER, Mixed Reef?
Mixed reef, dominantly sps/zoas.

13. Barebottom / Deep Sand Bed / Shallow Sand bed/ Etc what do you have?

1/2" sandbed, need to add more sand.

14.Sump Configuaration?

40g breeder, no baffles. new build next week!

15. Whats your Parameters?
Temp 77.5-80.5
Calcium 450
Alk 11
Mag 1400
Salinity 1.026
Nitrate ??
Nitrite ??

16. Where is your tank in your home or office?

In my garage.

17. What kind of rock is in your tank?

Mostly Fiji, some tonga.

18. What type of Salt do you use? or NSW? Do you own a RODI
DD H20 salt. RO/DI unit is a $199.00 5 stage unit from bulkreefsupply.


FTS: coming soon

heres a vid update
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgtmhvu8yDE

 

[skairik]

Update: Pics Now Attached.

This build is in it's final stages of completion though there is not much left to do besides getting my controller, stand skin, and a few other knick-knacks. Just wanted to post some pics since I finally have some down-time.

 

[yellowslayer13]

My new tank is roughly 20,000 and it has all kinds of stuff from hermit crabs to tarpon

 

[wishntoboutside]

this is a great thread going on. i like it. i guess i should scrub my tank a lil..and dust off the camera.

 

[savethereef]

Comon guys i know there are more peeps here on this Socal Forum Dont be shy. Post your specs and pics.