Okay guys and gals, here is my mini reef tank.
Hardware
50 gal DAS tank (with built-in denitirfying protein skimmer, filter and sump) 29" x 21" x 21" with oak stand and DIY Oak Canopy (looks GREAT!!!!!!!!!
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2 18" 15 watt 03 NO Actinic and 1 24" 20 watt 03 NO Actinic for dawn/dusk effect
1 250 watt PFO Metal Halide ballast w/ 12,000 K Metal Halide light and Reeflector
4" fan
3 Digital Timers running lights and fan
1 150 gph PH
1/4 hp West Coast Aquatics in line chiller with controller and RIO 1100 PH (only needed 1/6 hp but got a tremendous buy on the 1/4 hp)
1 150 watt Visi Therm drop in heater
FlexiFlow III peristalic pump powering DIY Nilsen Reactor (Bill E style)
Substrate
4" DSB (80 lbs aragonite sand)
75 lbs LR (believed to be Fiji Rock)with lots of corallene algae
Corals
colt coral
xenia Sp
Xenia Umbellata
Trachyphyllia geoffroyi
small brown squirt
yellow polyps - parazoanthis gracilius
green star polyps
brown button polyps
Metarhodactis sp
discosoma
king sea fan - gorgonian
purple frilly gorgonian
spiny sea fan - gorgonian
green sea matt - zooanthus
brown sea matt - palythoa
Tubestrea aurea - orange cup coral
acropora
Fish
flame hawk
clown fish
Invertebrates
Entacmaea Quadricolor (bubble tip anemone)
1 Lysmata Amboinensis (cleaner shrimp)
3 paguristes cadenati (red reef hermit crabs)
12 Astrea snails
5 Hawaiian Turbo snails
6 Nerite snails
12 Trocus snails
20 Nassarius snails
various ditritivore, i.e. spaghetti worms, gammarus and mysis shrimp, micro brittle stars. etc.
Macroalgae
Caulerpa cupressoides
Additives
Kent Iodine, 5 drops daily
Kalkwasser
Potential additions
refugium
Tank was established in May 2000
[This message has been edited by rmcgary (edited 10-17-2000).]
