Ganjero,
The tank is a custom made acrylic, purchased from a gentleman in Ocalla Florida. The tank is 59.5 inches wide 48 inches front to back and 26 inches deep. It sits inside a 60 inch door between our living room and dining room. It is viewable from both sides. The overflow box is external and sits in the left rear corner. I had it made large so I can get down inside it, (8X18) . I have 10each 1.5 inch holes drilled in the tank below the water line. All plumbing is external and there are no pumps in the tank. There are 4 holes in the bottom of the tank. Each of these has a 90 degree fitting and an eductor which blows water out under the rocks. The rocks are stacked to minimize dead spots. In the side walls near the top are 4 more holes for 4 more eductors. There are also two holes in the left side of theank, near the bottom that I have screens over use as intackes for the two closed loops. The two on the right up high are intake and output for my chiller which is outside on the screened in porch. This gives me the effect of a third closed loop. The two on the left are hooked up to the closed loops. I have two sumps under the tank. The first is about 36X18 (50 gallons) and functions mostly as a settling tank. Water enters this and slowly flows through it and into a second sump which is a converted 75 gallon glass tank. I have this second sump split into a very deep sand bed and an overflow to the water take out section from there it goes through an external pump and back to the tank. I run an MRC dual becket skimmer and an MRC dual chamber Ca reactor. The reactor is already overwhelm and I plan on adding another soon. Lighting on top is 5 400 watt halides driven by magnetic ballast. I run a radium 20 K on an 129 pulse start magnetic in the middle and 4 14 K (10K ) aqualines . On the DSB sump I run a single 250 watt 20 K radium on an icecap electronic ballast. I have two very large carpets in my sand bed in the second sump. If you like I can post images of the hardware later today?
Most of the corals are from my previous tanks and some of them I have had for over 7 years. Most were started from frags or very small colonies. A few are wild colony frags or rescues from wild colonys that were not thriving in other systems. I seldom purchase large colonies as I like the way frags grow to the system. The oldest animals are some zoanthids and rodactus that I have had since 91 or 92. One of my anenomes has been in my tanks since 1995.
Thak you all for looking and the kind comments. The tank looks pretty rough to me still as I do need to get the algea under control but i think that it has potential. The corals and fish are thriving. THe parameters are stable and alaklinity demand is rising fast. I tried to address a lot of the problems that I had before with my 180 and I am happy so far with the way the efforts are turning out.
Happy reefing
Dave
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I have been having probl;lems with the Po4 and started adding GFO and its starting to die.
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