375 Gallon tank

[marinelife]

375 Gallon Reef Tank
I sold my 180, 300, sump, and several other fish items to purchase this tank

Tank Specs: Acrylic 375 Reef Ready 96x30x30 - Set-up on February 25, 2007

Lighting: 3 400W 240V 14000K MH

Circulation: I have two 6100 Tunze Stream Pumps, one on each side of the overflow connected to a controller. A Tunze WaveBox was purchased 12-25-2005. A Second Wavebox was added in June 2007. A Iwaki 40RLXT is my return pushing 1200gph back into the tank for added circulation.

Filtration: The overflows go to a 55 gallon container that is 50% full of water with macro algae in it. I have 80watts of light over the top of it and this tank has 2 500w heaters in it controlled by a PinPoint Temp Controller. I have about over 1000LBS of Live Rock and 1-2" of Live Sand in the 375. The LS and LR have been in different tanks since 1995 so they are well matured. I have mixed sand, Some live and some not, all fine grain sand. I also used Nature's Ocean Bio-Activ Live Reef Sand from Advance Aqua Tanks, This stuff works great. It makes up 50% or more of the sand in my tanks. It is cheaper than most Live Sand. My Live Rock is a mix of Premium Fiji, Pohnpei, Marshall Island, Caribbean, and Kaelini Tonga Ultra. I use Instant Ocean Reef Crystals for my mix.

Extras: PRECISION MARINE 6 X 24 CALCIUM REACTOR W/EHIM PUMP. This is used to keep my CA and ALK up. In May 2007 I purchased a JBJ Arctica 1/3 HP Inline Chiller that I run off the return

Additives: I use a CA Reactor for Calcium and Alkalinity (started using 12/2001). I use a Formula One, Formula Two, and Angel Formula from Ocean Nutritionand Frozen Spirulina Enriched Brine Shrimp by San Francisco Bay Brand. I feed one cube once a day. I also have Cyclop-eeze that I feed a few times a week along with Nori Seaweed. I soak all the food in Selcon by American Marine Inc and Vita-Chem by Boyd Enterprise Inc. I use Instant Ocean Reef Crystel for my mix.

Critters: Hippo Tang (donated to me by a friend in 2005), Hippo Tang (purchased 1995), 3 Green Chromis (purchased 1/2001), Orange Shoulder Tang (April 27, 2007), 2 6-line Wrasse (male and female purchased 1/2006), Chocolate Tang (May 2007), Red Sea Emperor Angel (June 14 2007), Sailfin Tang (May 2007), Flame Fin Tomini Tang (May 2007), Coral Beauty (May 2007), several Serpent Stars, few Hermit Crabs, few snails, Variety of mushrooms, Acroporas, Montiporas, Button Polyps, Turbinaria, Montipora foliosa, Fire Coral, Derasa Clam( 5/2001), Crocea Clam (3/2006), Tear Drop Maxima (5/2006) some Macroalgae, other SPS Corals and more. There is also a few other crabs and items growing on the rocks.

Maintenance: Clean the front and side panel every other week. Water change on the 15th of the month and on the last day of the month

Other info: The tank was purchased with several scratches but I used an underwater sander kit and cleaned it right up. I still need to run the kit one more time.

I am still working on the Stand and Canopy which I hope to have finished in a few months

[motorslave]

looks great! How about some more pics? What kind of skimmer are you running?

[marinelife]

I need to take some more pictures. I have some of the switch over on my site.

No skimmer!!

Here is a picture on my clams

[motorslave]

How big are your water changes?

Thos look like some monster clams!

[marinelife]

Today I just did a 45gallon water change and will do one again on the 15th. Twice a month is my current schedule. I was doing 90 gallons but wantd to see what a smaller change would do. I have been seeing red slime algae after every water change, several other reefers I talked to have seen the same thing with Reef Crystal Salt, so I felt a smaller water change is needed to see what happens.

The one clam is over a foot long

[Loverotties]

It looks really nice and you don't use a skimmer?

[marinelife]

nope no skimmer

[Sndwave80]

WOW, those clams are huge! Thanks for sharing

[marinelife]

I have been able to put some work on the stand. I made and installed the columns. I will be staining, cutting, and installing the trim in the next few weeks, I have to get past MACNA before I work on it more. The doors on the left are going to be changed out too, my wife does not like them. Yes that is algae on the front panel, I cleaned it tonight so I will post a better picture tomorrow.

[Sndwave80]

Still looks great. Keep the pics comming!

[bigdeeezy]

looks great...more close up pics of what you have in there?

[marinelife]

I will work on getting some, I just sold my camera and will have to try and figure out my step-daughters camera.

[Hendersonracing]

looks great!!

[bigdeeezy]

looks very nice...wat kind of underwater sanding kit did you use? i have a couple of scratches on my tank and i wanna get rid of them

[marinelife]

http://www.etr-inc.com/shop/cart.php...t_detail&p=101