DAN's tanks

[DAN THE MAN]

The first is a 72G bow almost 7yrs old Dec 2001
Lighting 3 x 55w PC and 1 40w 03 NO
Plenium and larg refugium with DSB no skimmer
80lbs of LR bottom aragonite

Yellow Polyps
Colt
Blassmussa
Green stripe shrooms
Xenia
Yellow fire coral
Ricordia shrooms
Green polyps
Green star polyps
Button polyps

Royal Gramma
Six line
Yellow tang
Dispair
Fire scallop
Fire shrimp
Feather duster

The second is a 125G over 3 yrs old Dec 2001
Lighting 4 x 96w PC and 2 30w 03 NO's
DSB and larg refugium with DSB no skimmer
110lbs of LR bottom aragonite

Young coral
Green candy coral
Spotted shrooms
Green hydro
Xenia
Yellow polyps
Purple mantipora digitata
Green star polyps
Birds nest
Sea matt
Button polyps
Curly-Q
Green stipe shrooms

Hippo tang
Fire fish
Black cap
Cleaner wrasse
Six line
Lyre Tail
Ghost shrimp
Green mussels
Abalone

Both tanks have

Cleaner shrimp
Margaritta snails
Cortes snail
Scarlet hermits
Tiger cucs
Nissarus snails
Red brittle stars
and an asortment of common hichhikers

Please ignore spelling

[Carpentersreef]

7 year old reef tank?....Wow, got any pics?

Mitch

also - any tried and true methods you swear by?

[DAN THE MAN]

Sorry, a digital camera is on my list of things to get one of these days. The 72g has been up for 7yrs, but only the last 4 1/2 have been bliss, the first 2 1/2 were a little up and down (my learning years).

I do believe that a good larg well designed and stocked refugium can be one of the most important things you can have (nutreint export, secondary food source for corals, increased PH and over all tank stability). It's a far better than a skimmer.