I'm glad you all like the set up! Upon request I will go over my system, its really quite basic.
Lighting:
I have one 250 watt pendent with a hamilton ballast and phoenix 14k bulb. I have a galaxy ballast waiting to be put on there but I'm waiting until I can get my hands on the Lumen Max Elite reflector. In the end I want the reflector with the galaxy ballast and a radium bulb with some supplemental led's for actinic.
Photoperiod: 3-11pm, 8hrs.
Filtration:
This is a JBJ 30 Rimless AIO set-up, so its all contained behind the tank. Instead of using the filter boxes/containers that come with the tank I turned one chamber into a refugium with chaeto that just gets indirect light from the halide. For the other side I used a container piece off of an octopus skimmer that sits perfectly in the chamber and allows water to pass through it. So I cut up a 25 micron filter sock so that the pieces fit nicely inside and use that as my filtration, I change it out about every 3-5 days. On top of the piece of sock is a bag of carbon and polyfilter to catch the larger debris. My skimmer is an eshopps PSK-75 hang on the back that I just recently got about 2 months ago, it skims real good and allows me to feed my corals heavier.
Flow:
I have 2 Nano Koralias hooked up to a JBJ wavemaker that alternates each one for 20 sec. at a time, runs 24/7. Eventually I want one mp10 on here but the college life budget is making that difficult. haha
Maintenance:
The first six months I did weekly 5 gallon water changes with reef crystals, I have now stepped it back to every 1.5-2 weeks. I also dose daily using ESV B-Ionic and ESV magnesium and I add a drop of lugols after every water change.
Feeding:
Twice a week I hand feed all of my LPS PE Mysis and on occasion I add some Reef Nutrition phyto/rotifers. Other than that bubba gets a couple of damsels or chromis every few weeks so not much food actually goes into my system allowing me to keep it really clean and nuisance algae free!
Heres a video, just click on it.
Thanks,
Tim
