Pics of 75 gal. reef

[macman7010]

I moved my reef from a 50 gallon tank to a 75 on satuarday. here are some pics of how it turned out.

http://www.pennswood.net/~jgosnell/P9240108.JPG
http://www.pennswood.net/~jgosnell/P9240109.JPG
http://www.pennswood.net/~jgosnell/P9240110.JPG
http://www.pennswood.net/~jgosnell/P9240111.JPG
http://www.pennswoods.net/~jgosnell/P9240112.JPG

Specs are as follows

75 gallon perfecto glass tank
20 gallon Pro Clear Aquatics Sump, Wet/Dry with Skimmer
2 gallon Aqua Clear HOB modified Refugium
Ehiem Pro Canister Filter
Mag 5 Return Pump, Ball Valve @ 295 gph
2 Maxi Jet 1200 Powerheads
1 Aqua Clear 301 Powerhead
Visi Therm Stealth 300 watt heater
Aqua UV Sterolizer
Current USA 36 inch Orbit 388 watts 7.05 watts per gallon
Bak Pak 2 Skimmer w/ Maxi Jet 1200
Sand and Crushed Coral Substrate moved from old tank
67 pounds of Fiji Live Rock moved from old tank

Corals:

Orange Tipped Torch Coral
Long Tentacle Orange Plate Coral
Green Star Polyps
Green Hairy Mushroom
Green Bullseye Mushrooms
Branching Gonopora
Finger Leather
Orange Zoo Polyps
Green Zoo Polyps
Hammer Coral
Open Brain Coral
Pulsin Xenia
Branching Xenia
Candy Cane Coral
Bubble Coral

Clams:

Maxima Clam
Dersea Clam

Anemones:

Long Tentacle Anemone

Inverts:

Various Hermits
Cleaner Shrimp
Coral Banded Shrimp
Reef Lobster

Fish:

Maroon Clown
Yellow Tang
Lavender Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Royal Gramma
Purple Firefish
Pajama Cardinal Fish (3)
Green Chromis (2)
Yellow Watchman Goby

Salinity: Density 1.026
Temp: 82
Ph: 8.4
Calcium: 400 ppm

 

[dianeww]

Wow, Macman, I just noticed this!! You must have posted on a slow day!!
Your tank is just beautiful....such corals!! I am envious, just having purchased my first coral today! How long has this reef been established? Good for you, great job!

 

[afilter]

Very Nice

 

[macman7010]

thanks dianeww and afilter,

by the way a filter how is your powder blue doing?

 

[revhtree]

Very Nice Tank! Coming along beautifully...

 

[afilter]

macman7010,

Powder Blue still doing great Tank transfer is now almost a month old so I thinkw we are over the hump. Adjusting well to the addition of corals.

Thanks for asking.

 

[macman7010]

yeah sounds like you did a good tank transfer. Mine is having a little bit of mini-cycling since the transfer. I have a slight rise in nitrates and some red algae and cyano growing. Then my UV sterilozer broke the other day just as I was introducing a new fish. Luckily I am friends with the guy I bought it from and he gave me a new one, actually a better one - I had an 8 watt and he gave me a 15 watt replacement.

 

[afilter]

Cool, I do not use a UV due to my Mandarine Dragonette and the need to maintain my pods population.

I too and getting a bit of Cyno, but nothing out of control yet.

 

[macman7010]

you could always use a UV with your mandarin, what I have done is set up a HOB refugium so that the pods from the refuge can flow into the tank and not get killed by the UV sterilizor. Of course if pods go down the overflow up through the sump and wet/dry they are dead once they hit the uv, but they have two prefilters to hit before that happens.