This is my first ever reef tank, I've had fresh water tanks for about a year, but decided that I wanted to try reefkeeping.
After spending a lot of time studying online I opted to go for a bare-bottom setup, it just seems like a nice way to run
The tank itself is 47 gallons footprint of 40" by 16" and 18" high, a 150W MH light system with 2x30W T8 arctinic, around 60# of live rock.
The wooden panels aren't finished yet, I need to decide on a color
Closeups of the tank, I'm still playing around with the stacking of the rocks, the high stack on the left is perfect I think and the larger stack on the right will probably change as I get corals on their own rocks.
The overflow is a Tunze outlet which seems to be working just fine (should at that price too!)
I bought the rocks second hand and they've been shedding quite a lot during the 3 weeks they've been in my tank, I've siphoned it out regularly.
I was lucky enough for the rocks to contain some Xenia which seems to be growing nicely, I even moved one to a rock fragment and it's looking good.
I have a 15 gallon sump with a 500 gal/hour return pump and a Beast Skimmer 400P (rated for 400 gallons).
I've ordered some cheato to put in the sump to help export nitrate and phosphate, but so far neither seems to be a big problem.
So far no fish, I'm having a lot of trouble deciding which to keep so I might start a thread on that in the near future.
I'm also trying to decide on which powerheads to use, I'm thinking about two Seio 1100 streams, or maybe if I have the patience I'll wait for Tunze Nanostreams. The dream setup would be 2 Nanostream 6055 with a multicontroller, but that's a wee bit expensive.
