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Old 05-28-2006, 01:32 AM   #1
Chuck Spyropulos
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My 500 Gallon System


Equipment:

300 Gallon Tenecor Acrylic Main Display
30 Gallon long frag tank
50 gallon refugium
150 Gallon Stock Tank Sump
ASM G6 Skimmer (THE best skimmer I have owned!)
MRC Double Chamber Commercial Line Calcium Reactor
4 Tunze Stream 6100s running on the 7994 Controller
2 DIY custom overflow boxes with integrated Tunze Stream compartments
4-250 MH 10K lamps (used to run 2 400s also but planning to replace PFO reflectors with Lumenarc IIIs on the 250s to cut power use)
Sander 200 mg/hr Ozone Generator
DIY Ozone generator made from 2 fluidized bed reactors
DIY automated water change system using 50 gallon storage/constant mix tank
DIY custom built canopy and cabinet
Aquadyne Octopus 3000 Controller
Via Aqua Heaters X10-Controlled
Aqualogic Delta 1/2 hp Drop in Coil Chiller X-10 Controlled
15 kw Generac Stand-By Natural Gas Generator and automatic transfer switch
Remote fishroom houses the water treatment equipment

Fish:

Yellow Tang
Naso Tang
Powder Blue Tang
Hippo Tang
Breeding Ocellaris Clown pair hosting in Heteractis Magnifica Anemone
Breeding Clarkii Clown pair hosting in Haddoni Anemone
2 Lyretail (squammipinis) Anthias
Copperband Butterfly
Heniochus Butterfly
Hardwicke Wrasse
Majestic Angel

Anemones:

Heteractis Magnifica
Haddoni Carpet
2 Cerianthus Anemones
Curly Cue Anemone

Corals (not many after the ozone and AEFW disasters in 2005)

2 Blastomusa Wellsi
1 Hammer Coral
Dendrophyllia
2 Blastomusa Mertensii
1 Meat Coral
1 Acan Lord
1 SPS Acropora (sp???) for testing the waters before restocking in June/July 2006...maybe
1 Monitpora Spongodes
Various Corallimorpharians
1 Squamosa Clam

Other:

400 lbs of live rock
Deep sand bed
DSB refugium with chaetomorpha as the export algae

Battled heat spikes (pre-chiller), RTN, STN, Red Bugs, Flatworms, Acro-Eating Flatworms. Hopefully with the new quarantine system, the same pests will not be back...
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Old 05-29-2006, 09:37 AM   #2
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Sounds awesome!

How about a picture to go along with that great description.
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Old 06-01-2006, 11:34 PM   #3
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talk about dream tank.
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