My 120 bb sps tank.

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This is my 120 gallon bare bottom sps and clam tank.

My tank on 12/6/06

Now to back track a few months since this tank is only 6 months old.

The 75 gallon i had before this one. In 6/06.

LOL i know.

OK my new 120 on 6/06

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12/06

 

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More in the in a month pics or so.

 

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Tank description

Tank started on 6/18/06
120 gallon black all glass aquarium
Black all glass aquarium stand

Lighting

2 Giesemann nova II pendants 150 watt double ended HQI 20.000 Kelvin bulbs
1 Nova Extreme T5 high output 48” fixture with modified fan and giesemann bulbs
4 54 watt bulbs one 420 nm 2 450 nm and 1 11.000 Kelvin bulb

Filters skimmers and reactors

Megaflow model 4 sump modified for more flow and less noise
Reef octopus calcium reactor with 19” tall 6” wide DIY second chamber
DIY kalkwasser reactor bucket with aqualifter pump on a timer to top off
Reef octopus shredder skimmer

Monitors

Milwuukee instruments ph monitor
Milwuukee instruments ph controller
Corlife digital temp monitor

Water movement pumps power heads

2 Tunze 6060 power heads.
Mag 9.5 water pump for sump return.

Substrate

Bare Bottom

Lbs of live rock

250 lbs of fiji live rock

Coral

Small polyp stony coral dominated


Super man montipora
Super girl montipora
Purple haze montipora mollis
Purple digitata
Orange digitata
Idaho grape montipora capricornis
Organ purple montipora capricornis
Yellow montipora capricornis
Orange montipora capricornis
Ora tortuosa
Cali tortuosa
Blue tenuis
Turquoise tenuis
Turquoise samoensis
Fiji green acropora microclados
Blue staghorn
Turquoise staghorn
Blue tip acropora
Blue tipgreen staghorn
Yellow script millepora
Blue millepora
Pink millepora
Green millepora
Green Pocillopora
Purple bonsia
Fiji wild acropora green with green polyps
Fiji wild acropora blue with green tips
Blue slimmer acropora
Green slimmer acropora
Green acropora austera
Tri color valida acropora
? deep water acropora

Green mushroom coral
Fire & Ice zoanthiads

Fish

False percula clown fish
Metallic fox face
Scribbled rabbitfish
Red cap goby
Scooter blenny
Midas blenny
Lyretail anthias

Clams

6” crocea
4” crocea
4” electric grade crocea
3” Ultra blue maxima
4” electric grade crocea

Snails and crabs

Mexican turbo snails
Asterina snails
Florida cerith snails
Scarlet red leg hermits

 

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New sump drawing. Ill take pics later.

So what do you guys think?

 

[GSMguy]

wow nice tank BB is seeming to be the way to go

 

[GSMguy]

are you using frag mags? on the glass or just gluing the frags to the glass?

 

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There my own magnet frags i made cost $1.99 each.

 

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I plan on getting a lot of monit caps and putting them on the back glass with magnet frag plugs. I just have put so much in the tank i dont have the extra money right now. Every thing in the pics is new i dont even want to know what i spent LOL.

 

[mpoletti]

Lots of time and great pics. What your favorite?

 

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Thanks. My fav corals my superman and my supergirl there pics didnt come out very well so soon ill have to take more and post them. I have 2 4"x"4 superman colonys and 1 6"x3" supergirl colony. I do like my Purple haze montipora mollis in the 17 th pic down. I have 2 colonys.

 

[Jose Antonio]

A W E S O M E .........

 

[saltycreefer]

More pics please

 

[ThaNgBOm321]

wow thats cool!!! some TLC and 6 months and they grow fast!!!!! i love how the baby seios grow into tunze!!! man!!!! that grew really fast!!! ( that was the first thing i noticed lol .. i like em but think they cost too much ) nice report tho mang.. it would be cool if you could doc you tank growth at the end of every month along with it's calk consumption and other perm related stuff ( would like to know how much calk they eat up as they grow just for kicks )

also would like to add that im also a anime freek , have about 200 gigs of it , there like cartoons the the extreem!!!!

 

[the_anti_honda]

Looking good.

Seems like a lot of people are going with 150's now. How do you like them? Do you think you should have gone with 250's?

 

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Thanks every one. The color didnt show up just right with all that blue light but some day ill get it right on my camera LOL. I use 1 1/2 gallons of lime water to top off a day plus i run through 8 lbs of ARM media a month and a half and my 5 lb co2 tank has to be filled once every month and a half. My calcium will only reach 350 my dkh is 12 and my ph runs 8.1 to 8.2 all the time. I have a huge chart of my levels i test for every thing every month but thats a lot to post. I have been adding coral the whole time and i plan on putting 20 more colonys that will give a total of 59 colonys with some having 2 to 3 seprate colonys in the tank of the same kind that im not counting.

ANIME i love anime i have been watching it since i was 13 12 years later i have a huge collection and my wife loves anime to so its all good.

The 2 150s were my first metal hilides i have ever owned and at $459.99 each there my last. But i had the T5s first i like the hqis i have but if i didnt get the 20k i would never have kept them. My T5 ho fixture is what makes my tank brite and look good. 150 250 i dont think i would ever buy metal halides again or recomend them get T5s there way better.


Oh i guess i never told you guys the tank only has 1 white light bulb and its a 11k T5. Thats one reason i cant get the pics to look less blue.

 

[Cody Ray]

That aquarium has a TON of potential! And yes anime is awesome and everyone should be forced to watch it

 

[onad75]

nice tank man..

 

[dippin61]

awesome tank