120gal SW Reef + 75gal Pred

[Jessica-lee]

Hello, we have a 120 gal saltwater reef with a 75 gal prediator tank attached to a 75gal sump. Have been into saltwater for 3 years now. We have upgraded from a 75 gal reef with a 50 gal sump.

Sump that both tanks are running off is drilled, (though holes arnt being used) 7f gal, holding approx 50 water, with 3 compartments one being the refuge, second being holding rock and pumps for return and reactors, and third being the overflow from both tanks with skimmer

We currently have 10 three foot t5 white bulbs, (5 on eachside) they are 12k. 60w bulbs. With vertex blue LEDs (4 foot) as lighting
Flow is Medium to High, mostly medium with 2-1400 fans

The 120gal tank is custom build by my boyrfriend. Its basicly a 180 cut down, 6feet x 2foot x 18 inches high. Along with both stands hand built by my boyfriend.

We keep out Salinity at 1.025-1.028, Temp at 77.5. We run a Reef Keeper Elite. Vertex180 Insump Protein Skimmer, Bio Pellet Reactor and Carbon+GFO Reactor. Its an overflow setup. With pumps of 396 and 1056 returning to both tanks.

Also a refuge with macroalgae growing and Miracle Mud... The tank is filled with bug life We have our lighing times for Whites (12pm-9pm) blues (11am-11pm) with refuge set for (9p-12pm) (opposite)

Liverock- 200+lbs (120+sump) 50lbs (75gal)
Crushed Coral Substrate- 150lbs (120gal) 75lbs (75gal)

Stock include:

Fish: 120
Hawaiian Yellow Tang (6")
Black African Leopard Wrasse (3"), Sixline Wrasse (1")
Yellowtail Blue Damsel (1")
2 (2") Blue Green Chromis + 3 (1") Blue Green Chromis
Maroon Clownfish (4")
Zebra Moray Eel (3foot)

Coral: 120
Purple Kenya Tree
Lots of Star Polyps, Button Polyps, Zoanthids, Pali's...ect even Daisy polyps
Ricordia Mushroms, Smooth, bubble, frlly, hairy, and more Mushrooms
Large Green Frilly Mushroom
Pink Duncans

Inverts: 120
Blue and orange Sponge
2 Mini Carpet Anemones (green, multi)
3 Tube Anemones (pink, black, orange)
Pink Bubbletip Anemone (houseing the maroon clown)
Derasa Clam

2 Tuxedo Urchins (blue, red)
Blue Shortspine Pincushion Urchin
Pink Pincuschion Urchin
Brown and speckled coloured shortspined urchin

Big Fancy Knobby Brittle Starfish
Tiger Stripped Serpent Starfish
2 Red Fromia Starfish
Spotted Linkia Starfish + his growing leg which he lost and seems to be growing on its own
3 Sand Sifter Sea Stars
Some kind of Chocolate Sea Star

2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
2 Tiger Tail Cuccumbers

Green Emerald Crab
Purple Coral Crab
Pom Pom Crab
Anemone Crab
Around 40 (red, orange, Blue and nomals) Different sized Hermet Crabs (4 huge ones lol)
Around 100 Snails (2Mexicans, alot of unicorns and regular cleaning snails)


Fish: 75
Purple Tang (4")
Picasso Trigger (3")

Corall: 75
Star Polyps
Kenya Tree Frags

Inverts: 75
Purple Longtip Anemone
Large Black Longspine Urchin



Any questions or comments... please feel free

 

[Jessica-lee]

Pics

Here are some pics of the tanks and some livestock, both of our sailfin tangs

 

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of tank and when first cycling and Picasso Triggerfish

 

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Of Black Longspine Urchin (when got it; acclimating) and Anemones

 

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The multi coloured carpet anemone, derasa clam, polyps, green mushroom and sponges

 

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Spotted Linkia Star, Tuxedo Urchin and purple mushrooms. Eel, and a pic of our old 75 reef setup before we upgraded and 120 while cycling

 

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More pics.... of tanks, moray eel, and LTA and Black urchin

We plan to add much more fish and coral, and inverts, any suggestions?

 

[Jessica-lee]

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Some croal pics, including both mini carpet anemones, the daisy polpys, green bubble mushrooms and pink urchin, and pink duncans with brown coloured urchin And green button polyps

 

[Jessica-lee]

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Kenya and kenya frag, pink tube anemone and 2 sand stars haven an orgy (pic tookin in old 75 still have them) and knobby brittle starfish

 

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And some Shrooms

More pics of coral and mushrooms including large green frilly mushroom with blue urchin in background , purple hairy mushrooms. Star polyps and crab, shrimp and red fromia star on glass aswell

 

[Jessica-lee]

Also

An electric blue hermet crab

 

[Beengirl]

Very nice!! I like the way they're set up together!

 

[Jessica-lee]

Very nice!! I like the way they're set up together!

Thanks we arnt even done yet, maybe upgrading pred tank to 180... and we deff getting more coral and fish...

Plus haveing them set up together in one sump, is easyier as its more water flowing and more life and we are able to have both side (reef and preds) and easy for maintance a bonus


Any suggestions for coral and fish? We plan to have a wide variety of coral and fish for the setup in the future but need to do more work to the system before then and needs to age some more..

 

[Beengirl]

Is a reef tank ever really finished? Can always fit in another coral. Lol. I would do a foxface in the 75, might not do great with the yellow tang since they're both yellow. Love foxfaces, planning on one when I upgrade to 125g.

 

[Jessica-lee]

Odd that you say the yellow tang being in the 75 (currently she in in the 120 and has been) but we do plan to catch and move her to the 75 tank being smaller. Considering she can never get along with another tang, she has killed 2. We plan to switch the purple tang outta the 75 to the 120 and match her up with another tang, not a sailfin of course, considering its a bigger tank

And as for the foxface, we do plan to get a majestic foxface, being darker, its should be okay, and we would have more rock and caves, in fish in there to counter out...

 

[Jessica-lee]

Hey everyone!!!

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know we added some new additions to our PRED tank....

4 (about 3-4inch) Eel Gobys !! also known as Engineer Goby or Goby Eel..

They all have different patterns and I love it, they are schooling and living great together in the pred tank, the trigger doesnt like it so much but isnt doing any damage and should settle out, and seeming to get used to them and it seems it will be fine.

 

[Jessica-lee]

New!!!

Pred tank now has a large beautiful glass tube anemone.

Reef (we took out our yeelow sponge to add to seahorse tank, and moving the carnation coral and mushrooms from seahorse tank to reef) We also added 2 gobys; the bicolour and tail spot that we had for our seahorse tank, in hopes they would get along better in a bigger environment.

We also got new purple green mushrooms, and a large green mulit coloured brain coral, and a new large green BTA !

Also a pair of Blue Dragon Gobys (datrfish) , they where wild caught so are taking a bit to settle in.

Pics soon

 

[Jessica-lee]

Sadly only 3 of our goby eels survived as one was sick when we got them
But the 3 out of 4 are doing great