Reeftanker's 90 gallon reef

reeftanker3295 · 07/09/2010, 01:41 PM

Hello everyone! I joined here a while ago but never really started posting on these forums. My first tank was started 1 year and 8 months ago, it was a 29 biocube. I had lots of trouble with it but learned a lot from it. I decided the tank was way too small, as I wanted to start a tank that would be stable and could house more fish and coral.
I picked up this tank in December of '09 and had lots of work to do before starting it up including piecing everything together. I bought 2 250w MH retrofit reflectors with ARO ballasts and a 2 bulb 110w VHO retrofit with an IC660 ballast. I am running an AquaC EV120 for my skimmer, and a mag 7 for my return pump. For flow I have 2 K3's but I plan on upgrading to a Vortech MP40w when I get the money. I am only 15 so it's hard to run this thing

For fish I have a pair of black saddlebacks, a yellow tang, and a lyretail anthias. For corals so far I only have softies including different mushrooms, kenya tree, xenia, zoas, yellow polyps, button polyps, etc. but plan on getting SPS and LPS corals soon. I also have an LTA and a skunk cleaner shrimp.
Anyways, here are some pictures of how it looks now. It has been up and running for about 5 months now.
My clowns in their LTA

Mushroom island (I put them all here so that they wouldn't sting future slow growing corals)

Anthias and yellow tang

FTS

What's everyone think?

reeftanker3295 · 09/09/2010, 08:04 PM

Updated picture..

strike2867 · 09/09/2010, 08:48 PM

Nice progress. Will be interesting to see when the GSP's cover your tank.

quader94 · 09/09/2010, 09:08 PM

hey your on here too lol

How are the two K3's for flow?

reeftanker3295 · 09/09/2010, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by quader94

hey your on here too lol

How are the two K3's for flow?

Haha whats up Tim?
IMO they're great for a soft or mixed reef, but if you're going with SPS I would definitely step it up to 2 K4's.

reeftanker3295 · 09/09/2010, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strike2867

Nice progress. Will be interesting to see when the GSP's cover your tank.

Yea it's slowly spreading to the overflow. I will probably sell the rock that has the frag on it, and let it take over the overflow. This way i will still have the beautiful coral but it wont cause problems.

reeftanker3295 · 01/22/2011, 10:51 PM

Wow long time without an update... I've added a yellow haddoni anemone, SPS corals, a frogspawn, some zoanthids, a crocea clam, acans and today I put in a female bellus angel along with some new zoas. I also switched to SE 14k phoenix bulbs and hooked up a phosban reactor.
Heres some pictures taken a few days ago.

07/09/2010, 01:41 PM	#1
reeftanker3295 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 192	Reeftanker's 90 gallon reef Hello everyone! I joined here a while ago but never really started posting on these forums. My first tank was started 1 year and 8 months ago, it was a 29 biocube. I had lots of trouble with it but learned a lot from it. I decided the tank was way too small, as I wanted to start a tank that would be stable and could house more fish and coral. I picked up this tank in December of '09 and had lots of work to do before starting it up including piecing everything together. I bought 2 250w MH retrofit reflectors with ARO ballasts and a 2 bulb 110w VHO retrofit with an IC660 ballast. I am running an AquaC EV120 for my skimmer, and a mag 7 for my return pump. For flow I have 2 K3's but I plan on upgrading to a Vortech MP40w when I get the money. I am only 15 so it's hard to run this thing For fish I have a pair of black saddlebacks, a yellow tang, and a lyretail anthias. For corals so far I only have softies including different mushrooms, kenya tree, xenia, zoas, yellow polyps, button polyps, etc. but plan on getting SPS and LPS corals soon. I also have an LTA and a skunk cleaner shrimp. Anyways, here are some pictures of how it looks now. It has been up and running for about 5 months now. My clowns in their LTA Mushroom island (I put them all here so that they wouldn't sting future slow growing corals) Anthias and yellow tang FTS What's everyone think?

09/09/2010, 09:08 PM	#4
quader94 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Outside of Philly Posts: 144	hey your on here too lol How are the two K3's for flow? __________________ Current Tank Info: 75 gallon, 30 gallon sump, Koralias, Octo Extreme 200, and 2 250w Lumenbright Minis 34g Crashed 7/6/10

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09/09/2010, 08:04 PM	#2
reeftanker3295 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 192	Updated picture..

09/09/2010, 08:48 PM	#3
strike2867 Registered Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Buffalo Grove, IL Posts: 700	Nice progress. Will be interesting to see when the GSP's cover your tank.

01/22/2011, 10:51 PM	#7
reeftanker3295 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 192	Wow long time without an update... I've added a yellow haddoni anemone, SPS corals, a frogspawn, some zoanthids, a crocea clam, acans and today I put in a female bellus angel along with some new zoas. I also switched to SE 14k phoenix bulbs and hooked up a phosban reactor. Heres some pictures taken a few days ago.