Tank: 65 gallon - 36 X 24 X 18
Sump: Custom made acrylic. MM with two types of caulerpa and one type of Halimeda. 26 watt PC 24/7 on refugium.
Return pump: Little Giant 3 MDQX-SC - Over half of the water from the return pump is recirculated back through the refugium.
Heater: Azzo 300 watt - in sump
Circulation: Three Maxi Jet 900's on a SandPoint Micro wave wavemaker
Lighting: 1 X 175 watt Ushio 12,000k MH, 1 X 250 CoralVue MH each powered by IceCap ballast and four 24" VHO Actinics Powerd by IceCap 430. Inclosed in a custom made black acrylic hood. Cooled by 1 - 80 mm fan and 1 - 92 mm fan. One on each side of the hood blowing out. Both fans have heat sensors, so the fans speed up as the temp. rises. The back of the hood has a opening to draw in cool air.
40 lbs of Caribsea Aragonite Sand Seaflor
Special Grade Reef Sand.
80 lbs of live rock
1 - 3"
Red Sea Purple Tang
1 - 1 1/2" True Percula Clown
Yellow Watchman Gody
4 - Queen Conch snails
4 - Fighting Conch snails
5 - Golden turbo snails
5 - ? turbo snails
Set-up 3/23/02
All water comes from a Kent Marine Maxxima RO/DI
All make-up water is Kalkwasser. Pumped by a RIO 600 in a 5 gal bucket run by a Ultra Life float switch in the sump.
Temp. - 78.6 - 82.2
Salinity - 1.025 - 1.026
PH - 8.2
Calcium - 390 - 400
Nitrites - 1
Nitrates - 0
Ammonia - 0
dKH - 8.3
Home Page. First attempt at a Web page so it is bland. It will hopefully get better as I learn more and take better pictures.
http://www.sliceofreef.com
