Hello Everybody! New to the forum, love to see everyones tanks, thought I would post my own.
I just started this tank, I previously had a 125 Gallon Reef and 240 Gallon Fish Only, decided to do one large Reef Tank.
Tank: 450 Gallon, 120"length, 36" width, 24" height, 3/4" Acrylic, the overflows are built at an angle so as to help waterflow around the tank, 4 - 1-1/2" Drain Lines
Refugium: 180 Gallon Acrylic, 72"length, 24" width, 24" height, one side of the main tank will drain into here, 2 - 1-1/2" bulkheads will drain into the sump
Sump: 180 Gallon Poly Stock, 72"length, 24"width, 24"height, this will house most of the equipment and has 4 flow pumps connected
Lighting: 4 - 250 Watt HQI 14k Phoenix Metal Halides, 4 - 110 Watt Super Actinic T12 Fluorescent, 3 - 75 Watt 10K Aquasun T12 Fluorescent, 20" box fan on both ends
48" Odyssea HQI 175 watt system over the Refugium
72 LED Moonlight system
Flow: Sequence Reeflo Dart for main waterflow running 1-1/2" lines directly into the tank, Iwaki 100 will connect to three 1" Sea Swirls and other lines, Iwaki 75 and Iwaki 55 will run all equipment and any extra flow needed, two Tunze 6000's and two Tunze 6200's, I am thinking about adding a tunze wavebox or homemade wavemakers (upside down tri-sprinklers)
Calcium: Geo 624 Calcium Reactor, Ph Probe will go directly into chamber, modified with JBJ bubble counter
Skimmer: ASM G-6 Recirculating Protein Skimmer, modified with three Sedra 9000's, 48" tall, 12" diameter
Other Filtration: 36" Lifegard Fluidized Sand Bed Filter, 24" Lifegard Fluidized Rowaphos Phosphate Filter
Kalk: 24" Kalk Stirrer by Fishbowl Innovations
RO/DI: 6 Stage PureWater RO/DI 75 gallons a day
Monitors: Phosphate, Alk, Calcium, Salinity (I think they are all Milwaukee)
I ordered 500 Pounds of Live Sand and 500 Pounds of Live Rock
I used Milk Crates (modified) to hold up some of the rock so that there was plenty of swimming room for the fish.
The rock doesn't cover all the blue crates, but I think as coraline grows they will dissapear.
Here is the equipment
I will spend the next two months cycling the system before adding any fish or corals.
I do have a fish list and will post that soon (lots of tangs).
Thanks for looking and feel free to ask questions.
