SWE Custom 180ish Reef Display

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Ugh, I thought I had already transfered the blog over to TRT and deleted it on the company website. I do not have time to recreate the full blog, so I will just post some pics to get up to date. This catharsis of the aquarium was started Sept. 08.




Stats:

Custom Stand
Custom Perfecto 60"X30"X24"
T-5 Tek 6 bulb (ATI Blue+, ATI AquaSun,B+,AS,B+,ATI Actinic)
AC3
Aquasurf
Tunze 6105 (the new ones)
Ocean Runner 3500
SP3000 Dosing Pump w/ Sunlight Supply light timer (run in conjunction with AC3) and hooked through a REEFSTOCK kalk reactor.
Target clip on fan
Lots o Live rock underneath,
Fiji pink sand.
Sheet of HDPE protecting the glass
Large hand-me-down sump
MSX (Xtreeme) 200 buble plate, mesh wheel skimmer.
Finnex heaters
completely silent drains!!! (panels are removable, just ask us if you want to learn how to do it at the store.)



Inverts:
Hand full of Astrea, Tiger Trocus, Mexican Turbo, Nerite, Nassaria, money cowrie
few brittle & serpent stars (including a harlequin serpent I have had for many years (in overflow box).
Two big Cucumbers (thanks SPSsick)

FISH:
1) Pair of sharknose gobies (ORA) - Stocked 10/15/08

2)Flame fairy Stocked 11/08

3)Magnificent Rabbit (L) Stocked 11/08

4)Pair - ORA Sharknose gobies - Stocked 1/6/09

5)mystery wrasse

6)Diamond Goby pair

7)Regal Angel

8)Red Sea Sailfin

9)Purple tang



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Corals

ORA Montipora spongodes
ORA Auzi Delicate
ORA Phil's Granulosa
ORA Hawkin's Echinata
ORA Green Birds nest
ORA Bird of Paridise
ORA Oregon tort
ORA Joe the Coral
ORA Red Planet
Tyree 20,000 Leagues

Crabtree Green Slimer
Scott Olson Blue Slimer

Energy donated supernatural monti
FreshFish donation Superman Monti
Li Donation Tabling acro blue
Li Donation Tabling acro
blue polyped monti
Sunset monti
Superman monti
monti cap
monti cap

Lost corals:
David G. milli - light too low on back wall.
More to come!

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silent overflows FTW!

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Xtreme 200, AC jr, Live rock, fan, bathroom sign, reefstock kalk reactor , sp3000 dosing pump. What else does one need?

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the tank that broke... sigh. I don't want to talk about it again... for now... weak...

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6-bulb tek Special edition (better reflectors and stronger paint than the regular ones).

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Opened up!

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A new addition waiting in QT

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We just installed new Tunzes on the Neptune wave maker. Unfortunately, I dropped the power head in the sand and made quite the storm. The Kole tank freaked out and by the end of the day had become an ich magnet. Three days latter everyone came down with it. We pulled all the fish and gave them a 200g sump to hang out in with some copper.
We are taking this lesson and making sure our 300g display has as much of the build done as possible before introducing fish.

I am taking this time to make a strict list of corals and fish. I have decided to stick with mostly SPS. I have a couple of brains that have been with me forever that I just can't bear to part with (No displays at home, since I practically live at the store).

I've also decided to get a calcium reactor on the aquarium (if we can make the space). Since I normally do two-part (the rest of the store will continue to run on kalk and 2-part). We believe its important to represent as many viable options as possible. We have one Deep Sand Bed system, the store is run Bare Bottom (Black acrylic FTW!). Our Displays are Shallow sand beds.

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This will be a great tank to follow. Look forward to updates! Thanks for sharing!

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Locked down on the species list. Still working on the coral list.

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Time sure does fly. This was only two months ago. I had crashed the tank this summer. I underestimated just how much CA and ALK I was going through with the corals. They moved from a 600g system to this tiny 200g-ish system. I neglected to get my 2-part going. After about one month they system crashed hard. When we tested the parameters the ALK was almost down to 5 and the ca was something like 330. Since things looked so bad, we decided to start from scratch.
We put a half to 3/4 of the live rock through an acid bath. Here are a few pictures from that event:

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Note: SWE does not officially support the using of muriatic acid. Unofficially...

This is 10 water to 1 MA. Water in the bucket first.

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The first rock was neat... but it takes a bit to get to the impressive stage.

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It gets a bit freaky once you get further in the process...

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Look at all those organics get pulled out of the porous rock.