Here it is - finally - this is the tank that has all that fancy plumbing to the basement - the tank is on the first level in what is the Den or family room - except no room for the family unless you count the fish..
Let me know what you think about rockwork, coral placement - I am not real good at placing the corals - there is over 350lbs of rock - mix of Fiji ultra Premium and Kalini, 650 lbs of live sand - mostly Fiji Pink (very fine white with pink particles) from AquaticsRule in Florida and about 100 lbs of live sand from the South Pacific from OceansPro in CA. There are 3 Tunze 6100, 1 Tunze powerhead and a Tunze wavebox for circulation, the return pump is a reeflow Barracuda turned down to about 2/3 of full output, 2 return lines are ties into a 2 inch rigid PVC return to a 100 gallon rubbermaid sump, 2 supplies are feed by a 1 1/2 PVC Flex (spaflex) into 2 - 3/4" lines. Skimmer is a EuroReef 12-2, system controls via a Neptune ACPRO3, controls lighting, temp, Ozone, Calcium reactor, Kalk reactor, - all probes including the DO and conductivity. I run a Phosphate and carbon reactor, automatic level control using Kalk reactor. Ultra Premium Spectrapure dual membrane RO (130GPD), 4 stage DI, Ultraviolet fresh water sterilization and an Aqua UV 54 watt UV sterilizer on tank as well. Total TDS for makeup water is 0.002PPM with approx 200PPM TDS coming in from Tap.
Lighting: Work in progress - there is a 48 inch Aquamedics Metal Halide with 2 x 250W DE HQI 10K, 1 x 150W DE HQI 20K, Fluorescent - all 54 Watt HO, 2 URI UV actinic, 2 Giesemann actinic, 1 URI/UV 10K, 1 Giesemann Daylight, 2- Catalina 20K Blue - 8 x 54W = 432 Watts of T5 fluorescent - GOING TO ADD 2 Aquamedic Pendants - 250 Watts each with 14K Phoenix DE HQI bulbs on either end of the 48" Aquamedics fixture - the Cataline T5 fixture is hung from the ceiling about 10 inches above tank, in back of Aquamedics MH fixtures - Aquamedics Metal halide fixtures are also hung about 15 inches above tank - so when I am done there Will be another 500 Watts of MH 14K - ULTIMATELY I want to sell the T5 and MH fixtures and get either a Solaris H4 or that new manufacturer - AquaIllumination and go for the LED based fixture.
Temp control - Neptune - fans for cooling, ebo jager heaters (500 Watts - basement where the sump is - gets very cool in winter - 62 degrees)
Tank dimensions - 180 gallon Oceanic - cherry finish - 72 x 24 x 24 - dual overflow - 2 3/4" returns, 2 - 1" drains - 2- large corner overflows (11 x 7)
Livestock:
Lots of acro, monti, Acan, some other LPS (meat, Elegance), softies include zoos, polys, cabbage leather, various purple and brown/green hairy mushrooms
Fish:
Lots of wrasse m/f pairs - Hawaiian Red Flame m/f, Exquisite m/f, Pink/Red Margin m/f, Longfin or Social Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis) m/f, single males include - Scott's (Australia), Carpenter's, McCosker's, 6 line & Mystery wrasse.
Lots of tangs - One Large Hippo (standard Blue), one medium Yellow Bellied Blue Hippo, Chevron, Purple, Desjardini Sailfin Tang, Orange Fin Tomini Tang, Vlamingi Tang
Misc fish:
Mated pair -True Percula clowns, Yashia White Ray Shrimp Goby with pistol shrimp, Yellow Shrimp Goby with Pistol shrimp, Yellow Clown Goby, Blue Spot Jawfish, Yellow/Purple Pseudochromis.
Inverts: Dozens of hermits (some rare - Orange, Electric Blue, scarlet, yellow), dozens of various snails, 3 scarlet cleaners shrimp, several lone Pistol shrimp, several Emerald Green Minthrax Crabs, Stars - Blue, orange Linkia, 3 sand sifting, one serpent, 4 sand sifting cukes, 1 pink/black, 2 yellow tiger tail, 2 tuxedo urchin, 1 long spine urchin.
Clams:
1 7" Gigas, 1 - 4" derasa, 1 5" Crocea, several "cleaner" clams in the refugium with another 75 lbs sand, 12 - 14 inch mangroves, lots of macro algae, 50lbs live rock, lots of critters - Pods (cope and amphi)
Now the pics:
Let me know what you think about rockwork, coral placement - I am not real good at placing the corals - there is over 350lbs of rock - mix of Fiji ultra Premium and Kalini, 650 lbs of live sand - mostly Fiji Pink (very fine white with pink particles) from AquaticsRule in Florida and about 100 lbs of live sand from the South Pacific from OceansPro in CA. There are 3 Tunze 6100, 1 Tunze powerhead and a Tunze wavebox for circulation, the return pump is a reeflow Barracuda turned down to about 2/3 of full output, 2 return lines are ties into a 2 inch rigid PVC return to a 100 gallon rubbermaid sump, 2 supplies are feed by a 1 1/2 PVC Flex (spaflex) into 2 - 3/4" lines. Skimmer is a EuroReef 12-2, system controls via a Neptune ACPRO3, controls lighting, temp, Ozone, Calcium reactor, Kalk reactor, - all probes including the DO and conductivity. I run a Phosphate and carbon reactor, automatic level control using Kalk reactor. Ultra Premium Spectrapure dual membrane RO (130GPD), 4 stage DI, Ultraviolet fresh water sterilization and an Aqua UV 54 watt UV sterilizer on tank as well. Total TDS for makeup water is 0.002PPM with approx 200PPM TDS coming in from Tap.
Lighting: Work in progress - there is a 48 inch Aquamedics Metal Halide with 2 x 250W DE HQI 10K, 1 x 150W DE HQI 20K, Fluorescent - all 54 Watt HO, 2 URI UV actinic, 2 Giesemann actinic, 1 URI/UV 10K, 1 Giesemann Daylight, 2- Catalina 20K Blue - 8 x 54W = 432 Watts of T5 fluorescent - GOING TO ADD 2 Aquamedic Pendants - 250 Watts each with 14K Phoenix DE HQI bulbs on either end of the 48" Aquamedics fixture - the Cataline T5 fixture is hung from the ceiling about 10 inches above tank, in back of Aquamedics MH fixtures - Aquamedics Metal halide fixtures are also hung about 15 inches above tank - so when I am done there Will be another 500 Watts of MH 14K - ULTIMATELY I want to sell the T5 and MH fixtures and get either a Solaris H4 or that new manufacturer - AquaIllumination and go for the LED based fixture.
Temp control - Neptune - fans for cooling, ebo jager heaters (500 Watts - basement where the sump is - gets very cool in winter - 62 degrees)
Tank dimensions - 180 gallon Oceanic - cherry finish - 72 x 24 x 24 - dual overflow - 2 3/4" returns, 2 - 1" drains - 2- large corner overflows (11 x 7)
Livestock:
Lots of acro, monti, Acan, some other LPS (meat, Elegance), softies include zoos, polys, cabbage leather, various purple and brown/green hairy mushrooms
Fish:
Lots of wrasse m/f pairs - Hawaiian Red Flame m/f, Exquisite m/f, Pink/Red Margin m/f, Longfin or Social Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis) m/f, single males include - Scott's (Australia), Carpenter's, McCosker's, 6 line & Mystery wrasse.
Lots of tangs - One Large Hippo (standard Blue), one medium Yellow Bellied Blue Hippo, Chevron, Purple, Desjardini Sailfin Tang, Orange Fin Tomini Tang, Vlamingi Tang
Misc fish:
Mated pair -True Percula clowns, Yashia White Ray Shrimp Goby with pistol shrimp, Yellow Shrimp Goby with Pistol shrimp, Yellow Clown Goby, Blue Spot Jawfish, Yellow/Purple Pseudochromis.
Inverts: Dozens of hermits (some rare - Orange, Electric Blue, scarlet, yellow), dozens of various snails, 3 scarlet cleaners shrimp, several lone Pistol shrimp, several Emerald Green Minthrax Crabs, Stars - Blue, orange Linkia, 3 sand sifting, one serpent, 4 sand sifting cukes, 1 pink/black, 2 yellow tiger tail, 2 tuxedo urchin, 1 long spine urchin.
Clams:
1 7" Gigas, 1 - 4" derasa, 1 5" Crocea, several "cleaner" clams in the refugium with another 75 lbs sand, 12 - 14 inch mangroves, lots of macro algae, 50lbs live rock, lots of critters - Pods (cope and amphi)
Now the pics:
