swk
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Hi everyone. I want to have some documented history of this tank as the years go on and the tank matures. I hope that a few of you may follow along, and/or that I can help someone along the way as a way of repaying all the help I've received from all you experienced SPS guys.
*Disclaimer* the pics will SUCK at first lol. I have an iphone 6 and a nice cannon P&S but very little idea of how to use them. I'm hoping that jumping in with this thread will force my hand a bit as far as becoming better at taking pics. Expect lots of videos at first in attempt to try and convey what I'm seeing without having to capture decent still photos.
This tank was setup in july of last year. Some rock and sand came from a 40 B that I had setup in my garage. I used to be a BIG tanganyikan cichlid guy, and had 3 6' tanks in my house. A 180 in the living room where the 75 is currently placed, and 2 125 gallon tanks in the garage. I got rid of all the tanks and equipment and decided to set this tank up. Here's some specs and details.
Standard 75 GAL display with built in overflow. Water is delivered to a homemade 20L sump via a herbie overflow. I use no mechanical media aside from the JNS u2 skimmer that is in the first chamber. Middle chamber houses the return pump, media reactor, top off sensor and various dosing lines. From the middle chamber the water is returned both to the tank and the fuge on the right side with a mag 5 return pump. The fuge contains both chaeto and caulerpa. There is also a shallow sandbed. I used to run a DSB in this section but removed it as I don't think it was doing any good.
Topoff is a Smart ATO unit. It has been a fantastic performer and is TINY! I dose DIY 2 part via Litermeter3 dosers. Chemicals are sourced from either BRS or DFS, whichever is having a sale at the time. I started off dosing kalk in my topoff unit, but got sick of changing the amount of kalk in the water as evaporation changed throughout the year. I also have a 1.1ml/min BRS doser that is used to dose a small amount of vinegar throughout the daytime hours. I do run carbon in the tank, but no GFO....but more on that later....
Flow in the tank is accomplished via a very old mp40 and a x150 gyre pump. I like the combo of both pumps and look forward to the controller adaptor to come out for the gyre pump as it is lacking in control ability.
Lighting is a 6x54 dimable sunpower by ATI. The tank started with reef radiance LEDs, but again, more about that later. The bulb combo is currently from front to back
ATI Blue+
Gman Actinic Blue
Gman Super Purple
Blue+
Gman Aquablue Azure
Gman Actinic Blue
Photo period is 10 hours total with all bulbs being on for 8 hours.
Most all the above is controlled by a Reef Angel controller with WIFI so I can connect with the tank anywhere at any time.
up next will be stocking info and a list of corals.
Thanks for reading all of this drivel
*Disclaimer* the pics will SUCK at first lol. I have an iphone 6 and a nice cannon P&S but very little idea of how to use them. I'm hoping that jumping in with this thread will force my hand a bit as far as becoming better at taking pics. Expect lots of videos at first in attempt to try and convey what I'm seeing without having to capture decent still photos.
This tank was setup in july of last year. Some rock and sand came from a 40 B that I had setup in my garage. I used to be a BIG tanganyikan cichlid guy, and had 3 6' tanks in my house. A 180 in the living room where the 75 is currently placed, and 2 125 gallon tanks in the garage. I got rid of all the tanks and equipment and decided to set this tank up. Here's some specs and details.
Standard 75 GAL display with built in overflow. Water is delivered to a homemade 20L sump via a herbie overflow. I use no mechanical media aside from the JNS u2 skimmer that is in the first chamber. Middle chamber houses the return pump, media reactor, top off sensor and various dosing lines. From the middle chamber the water is returned both to the tank and the fuge on the right side with a mag 5 return pump. The fuge contains both chaeto and caulerpa. There is also a shallow sandbed. I used to run a DSB in this section but removed it as I don't think it was doing any good.
Topoff is a Smart ATO unit. It has been a fantastic performer and is TINY! I dose DIY 2 part via Litermeter3 dosers. Chemicals are sourced from either BRS or DFS, whichever is having a sale at the time. I started off dosing kalk in my topoff unit, but got sick of changing the amount of kalk in the water as evaporation changed throughout the year. I also have a 1.1ml/min BRS doser that is used to dose a small amount of vinegar throughout the daytime hours. I do run carbon in the tank, but no GFO....but more on that later....
Flow in the tank is accomplished via a very old mp40 and a x150 gyre pump. I like the combo of both pumps and look forward to the controller adaptor to come out for the gyre pump as it is lacking in control ability.
Lighting is a 6x54 dimable sunpower by ATI. The tank started with reef radiance LEDs, but again, more about that later. The bulb combo is currently from front to back
ATI Blue+
Gman Actinic Blue
Gman Super Purple
Blue+
Gman Aquablue Azure
Gman Actinic Blue
Photo period is 10 hours total with all bulbs being on for 8 hours.
Most all the above is controlled by a Reef Angel controller with WIFI so I can connect with the tank anywhere at any time.
up next will be stocking info and a list of corals.
Thanks for reading all of this drivel
