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goat585

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I have been meaning to share my reef system on this forum for a little while and finally got around to it. The main reef is 240 gallons 4x4x2'. It is tied to a 120 gallon custom built sump. There are also 4 other tanks connected to the sump, 2-30 breeders, 1 25 breeder and a 75 gallon tank. All of these tanks are used to house my clown fish pairs. The system uses a dart for a return pump, skimz skimmer and tunzes are used for additional flow. A lot of the corals are over 5 years old that came from previous systems. This tank was setup in November of 2009. Lighting on the main display is a single 400 watt reeflux 12k metal halide in a lumenmax reflector, with custom LED moon lights. There are also 4 supplemental T5 bulbs used with ATI blue pluses. Here are a couple of shots from the front. I am currently having an algae breakout that I am working on. I'll add more details and pictures in the future.

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Awesome dimensions! I can't wait to see you clean up the tank, as it even looks good in it's current state. :)
 
Nice. Also typo. 4x4x2' should be the correct dimensions.

Look forward to this tank. I also love these dimensions.
 
thinkfuture said:
Tom, Nice tank. I notice you still are using the Reflector with LED's you bought from me. Awesome!
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Yeah it works great. It works far better then the lumenbright I used orginally. Everyone always comments on the moonlights on it. I take all the credit for the idea. LOL
 
goat585 said:
Yeah it works great. It works far better then the lumenbright I used orginally. Everyone always comments on the moonlights on it. I take all the credit for the idea. LOL
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LOL......Dude seriously I feel ingenious! There was a lot of critique about heat or spotting but it worked wonderful for me & I could notice a huge difference in actinics. Glad it is working out for you.
Ok I'll share some credit with Richard (Misenplace101), but just a little ;) LOL
 
thinkfuture said:
LOL......Dude seriously I feel ingenious! There was a lot of critique about heat or spotting but it worked wonderful for me & I could notice a huge difference in actinics. Glad it is working out for you.
Ok I'll share some credit with Richard (Misenplace101), but just a little ;) LOL
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Lol... :)
The actinic adds the wow factor.
 
Here are a couple of new pictures of what the fish room looks like. You can see all the tanks are divided for my clown fish pairs. The autotop off is below the 75 gallon. The small 10 gallons scattered about house the clown fish larvae until they are a month old or so then they get moved to the clown fish grow out area in another area of the basement.

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Love the way the lighting looks in the cube. It's peaceful looking. You have a piece of the reef! I've been looking into the same dimensions for my next tank. I wanna do central overflow and put the tank in the middle of a room.
 
i got around to cleaning the glass real well and took a couple of pictures yesterday. I added a bunch of Mexican turbo snails which really help with my algae issues. Slowly every thing is starting to come back around. I keep having some ALK crashes which are annoying the LPS. My kalk reactor is the issue and hopefully I can get it running right. Here they are:

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