75 Gallon

[mg]

Tank Specs:
75 Gallon AGA w/ overflow
80 lbs. live rock
5 inch southdown sand bed
Sump/refugium:
20 long AGA tank with baffles w/ various macro
Skimmer:
Red Sea Berlin Classic (running on Mag 9)
Return pump:
Little Giant 3MDQ-SC (approximately 500gph at head height)
In tank circulation:
2 powerheads Aquaclear 802 and 402 (600gph combined)
Lighting:
2 Hamilton 250W DE 14K + 2 100W URI VHO actinic
all on electronic ballasts
Water Parameters:
SG: 1.025
Ph: 8.2
Ammonia: undetectable
Nitrite: undetectable
Nitrate: undetectable
Temp: 78
Phosphate: 0.05ppm
Calcium: 400ppm
Alkalinity: 9dkh
Water Filtration:
Kent 4 stage RO/DI w/ Hanna TDS meter
Corals:
mushrooms, xenia
LPS
caulastrea, green pocillopora, pink stylophora, pink serioporta, pink tipped green frogspawn
SPS
green monti dig, purple polyp monti dig, orange monti dig, purple monti dig
orange monti cap., purple edged green monti cap.
Purple stag, blue humulis, pink milli, blue/purple milli, fuzzy blue tipped acro, Larry Jackson acro, blue tipped acro formosa, blue tipped turquoise acro, green slimer acro
Clams
Crocea clam, Derasa clam
Fish:
false percula clown, yellow tang
assorted shrimp and snails

[R3]

Nice tank that is pretty close to the setup im doing right now! Good to see that it works. how does that 175W MH halide do?

[mg]

I upgraded a while ago, just figured I would update this info

125 gallon AGA tank with corner overflows
DIY stand and canopy
Approx. 100# rock (mostly dry rock seeded with the rock from the 75 from a local dealer, very porus looks more like 150#)
30 gallon sump/ fuge lit by 65W lights of america pc

Flow:
T4 return pump
2 Tunze 6100 on multi controller

Lighting:
3 250W DE AB MH on magnetic ballasts
4 39W T5 actinics (running sylvania bulbe right now but want to try the URI bulbs next)

Substrate:
About 300# of southdown sand, 4" dsb

Skimmer:
Precision Marine Bullet 1 with a Pan World 150ps

DIY reverse flow calcium reactor
auto top off

Inhabitants:
hippo tang
sailfin tang
4 lyretail anthias (1 male 3 female)
occilaris clown
red margin wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubrimarginatus)
laboutei wrasse
lineatus wrasse

2 cleaner shrimp
1 coral banded shrimp

4 T. Crocea clams
T. Derasa
T. Squamosa

assorted snails, hermits, queen conch

[mg]

Right side


Some corals

[ceige]

wow looks great MG.....how old is it? The corals have nice space to grow

I hope my 125 will look like this someday....

[mg]

The tank was started in March 06 but it was a transfer from my 75 gallon that had been up for a couple years. I started getting into SPS about 6 months before the upgrade. Some of the pics are a month or 2 old like the full tank shot and some things have grown out a little since then.