caferacermike
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I've been maintaining and awesome 75g for about a year and a half. great things have come from it. My current set up.
75g drilled/overflow
triggersys sump with built in fuge 24w PC 24hours.
1262 Eheim return pump
ER ESV5 skimmer
4" aragonite with 220 lbs fiji and marshall
2x 250w DE Pheonix 14K on Icecaps for 7 hours, 2 x 100w atinic PC 12 hours.
Drip Kalk and add ESV B Ionic daily.
2x Tunze 6060 streams alternating via Blue Line Tsunami with Seio M620 as alternate 3rd pump.
Many many (about 60 different) SPS frags growing out, Some brains, Elegance (10 months now), Hammers, Frogspawns, Sun polyps. Many different Paly's and about 30 different colonies of Zoas. 4 different colors of toadstool. A giant magnificent anemone, 4 BTA's and a green carpet. 20 feather dusters. 6 big old cukes in different colors. 2 horseshoe crabs. 2 sand stars. 2 maroon clowns, a scooter blennie, algae blennie and a 4' banded snake eel.
I just got myself a 400g acrylic. It's gorgeous. I'm planning to take at least a year putting it all together before adding any water (must first move into a house with a foundation). I'm going to have a custom built sump/fuge in the area of 125G. I'm having difficulty making some decisions about equipment. First of all I'm not loaded, doing this off of a construction workers budget. I was lucky and smart enough once to put together a large enough order as to get myself a wholesale account at one of the largest suppliers in North America so that helps. Any ideas would be wonderful. Right now I'd like to set it up simple with an in sump skimmer, MH lights, fuge, 400lbs of rock, 3" sand bed, 6 stage RO/Di 75gpd with an added 75gpd membrane and Di so as to have about 150gpd output for water changes and an auto top off in the sump. A Kalk reactor would be nice to add with the make up water. Staying away from CA reactors until later. My goal is to try to save as much electricity as possible so as to be able to add it to my lighting needs.
Questions and areas for ideas.
Lighting. Right now I'm running 10wpg on the 75. This would be impossible on a 400g and on my budget. I've been told many things. 2x 400w would be excellent. I'm going ot shoot that down with the old 9" on center, 18" spacing, for MH's and I believe that rule. I've heard 3x 250w DE with Lumenarcs would be good, thinking about that. My goal is to only add SPS to the last 12" of the tank to help concentrate the lighting and to be able to reduce the amount needed. Maybe 4 250w DE? I can get a great deal on 250w SE retros but have been told I'd need a lot of them compared to Lumenarcs and DE bulbs. MH to provide growth. PC or VHO to provide looks.
Skimming. Love my Euroreef. Can't afford one for a 400g. I can afford an ASM G6 but have been told it might actually be to large. That I might want a G4 instead. Any thoughts? I also would prefer not to have a 4 foot tall skimmer next to my tank and would prefer a skimmer that would fit under the stand. I have about 28" to work with, maybe a little less. I've seen an antique ER that was 24" and rated for about 600g.
So keep in mind that I would like to be as energy efficient as possible. So no becketts with 400w pumps. How much lighting would you recommend?
Thanks. Mike.
I've been maintaining and awesome 75g for about a year and a half. great things have come from it. My current set up.
75g drilled/overflow
triggersys sump with built in fuge 24w PC 24hours.
1262 Eheim return pump
ER ESV5 skimmer
4" aragonite with 220 lbs fiji and marshall
2x 250w DE Pheonix 14K on Icecaps for 7 hours, 2 x 100w atinic PC 12 hours.
Drip Kalk and add ESV B Ionic daily.
2x Tunze 6060 streams alternating via Blue Line Tsunami with Seio M620 as alternate 3rd pump.
Many many (about 60 different) SPS frags growing out, Some brains, Elegance (10 months now), Hammers, Frogspawns, Sun polyps. Many different Paly's and about 30 different colonies of Zoas. 4 different colors of toadstool. A giant magnificent anemone, 4 BTA's and a green carpet. 20 feather dusters. 6 big old cukes in different colors. 2 horseshoe crabs. 2 sand stars. 2 maroon clowns, a scooter blennie, algae blennie and a 4' banded snake eel.
I just got myself a 400g acrylic. It's gorgeous. I'm planning to take at least a year putting it all together before adding any water (must first move into a house with a foundation). I'm going to have a custom built sump/fuge in the area of 125G. I'm having difficulty making some decisions about equipment. First of all I'm not loaded, doing this off of a construction workers budget. I was lucky and smart enough once to put together a large enough order as to get myself a wholesale account at one of the largest suppliers in North America so that helps. Any ideas would be wonderful. Right now I'd like to set it up simple with an in sump skimmer, MH lights, fuge, 400lbs of rock, 3" sand bed, 6 stage RO/Di 75gpd with an added 75gpd membrane and Di so as to have about 150gpd output for water changes and an auto top off in the sump. A Kalk reactor would be nice to add with the make up water. Staying away from CA reactors until later. My goal is to try to save as much electricity as possible so as to be able to add it to my lighting needs.
Questions and areas for ideas.
Lighting. Right now I'm running 10wpg on the 75. This would be impossible on a 400g and on my budget. I've been told many things. 2x 400w would be excellent. I'm going ot shoot that down with the old 9" on center, 18" spacing, for MH's and I believe that rule. I've heard 3x 250w DE with Lumenarcs would be good, thinking about that. My goal is to only add SPS to the last 12" of the tank to help concentrate the lighting and to be able to reduce the amount needed. Maybe 4 250w DE? I can get a great deal on 250w SE retros but have been told I'd need a lot of them compared to Lumenarcs and DE bulbs. MH to provide growth. PC or VHO to provide looks.
Skimming. Love my Euroreef. Can't afford one for a 400g. I can afford an ASM G6 but have been told it might actually be to large. That I might want a G4 instead. Any thoughts? I also would prefer not to have a 4 foot tall skimmer next to my tank and would prefer a skimmer that would fit under the stand. I have about 28" to work with, maybe a little less. I've seen an antique ER that was 24" and rated for about 600g.
So keep in mind that I would like to be as energy efficient as possible. So no becketts with 400w pumps. How much lighting would you recommend?
Thanks. Mike.
. I'm just going to go with the G5 since it should be enough for my system.
