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Old 04-20-2004, 04:42 PM   #1
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Back From The Grave - my 125 is back up & running


About time!

Here she is in all her glory:




I finished the aquascaping last week and am very pleased. I went bare bottom this time. The setup is as follows:

125 all glass tank drilled with www.reefmania.net overflow
DIY hood with 3 x 250W DE 10,000K AB Ocean lights, + 2 x 160W VHO URI Actinic with 3 icecap variable speed fans
55 gallon all glass tank for sump
300W Won titanium heater
Euroreef CS8-2 skimmer
Liter Meter III supplying a Myreef Creations Kalk reactor for auto topoff
Auquacontroller II
Red Sea 100 mg / hr Ozone generator
Corallife Ozone reactor
ReefMania chemical reacor (for carbon)
Two Little Fishies Phosban reactor (using ROWAphos)
4 x Tunze 6080 Streams on a Red Sea Wavemaster Pro
Mag12 closed loop feeding a 1" Sea Swirl
blueline 50PX on a closed loop feeding a spray bar which runs the length of the tank behind the rock
AquaMedic Ocean Runner return pump (650 GPH)
AquaMedic Titan 500 1/2 HP chiller
LOA 65W fixture to light the in sump refugium stocked with Chaeto.

LR is 80 lbs of Kaelini, 44 lbs of Marshall Island, and about 50 lbs of base rock which was Marshall Island before my tank crash (I cleaned it thoroughly).

I will be adding the first frags this Thursday if things go as planned.

I've also attached a little larger pic here:
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Old 04-20-2004, 06:14 PM   #2
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Congrats on the return!!!

its looking good so far!
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Old 04-20-2004, 06:48 PM   #3
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Looks great SawCJack00! I just recently did that myself and soon will have a cube tank set up and running!
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Old 04-20-2004, 07:56 PM   #4
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Nice aquascaping !!!
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Old 04-20-2004, 07:59 PM   #5
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I see you use 160 watt VHOs. How long is your tank ?
Those VHO bulbs must be pretty long, right ?
I´ve been thinking about getting a VHO retrokit, but my canopy will only take 46" max, and I think their max wattage is 110.
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Old 04-20-2004, 09:50 PM   #6
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Looks great. Where did you get the rock from? Was it cured or uncured?
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Old 04-20-2004, 09:53 PM   #7
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Man that sounds like a nice set-up. I wish I had those Streams LOL
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Old 04-21-2004, 10:56 AM   #8
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Thanks all, the tank is a standard 125 so it is 72" long. The VHO's are also 72" long

The rock is a combo of Kaeilini which was cured for sevral months by Greg Shields of Reefmania as he planned to use it for his new 180 but the plans changed as he is having a new house built, plus cured marshall Island from PA. I had a very short cycle due to moving the rock, but everything is at proper levels now and doing great.

Should be lots of fun getting my babies back & growing them again!
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Old 04-21-2004, 12:10 PM   #9
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Nice to see ya back,I know you will make it awesome again
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Thanks Casey. I'm pretty exited to get some frags in there!
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