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05/23/2006, 06:51 PM
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Show your 125g Reef Tanks!
I just purchased a 125g (72x18x21) Reef tank with dual overflows and was wondering if anyone would be interested in showing me/us some pictures of there 125g Reef tank's aquascaping and there setups. I will be doing a SPS dominated tank, but I will definately be keeping some Zoo's and Ricordia.
Please share! Thanks, -Mike C. aka ZURCSREEF |
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05/23/2006, 07:49 PM
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson Current Tank Info: Out of the marine aquarium hobby |
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05/23/2006, 08:58 PM
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Moved On
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Nice!
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05/23/2006, 09:40 PM
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100 lbs of fiji premium LR
3 bags of live sand 5 bags of aragonite sand 2 overflows on each end with two siphons in each 1 eheim wet/dry filter for 100 gallons minimum 2 300 watt heaters 2 magnum 12 pumps 1 37 gallon aquarium sump bioballs loaded 1 sea clone skimmer rated for 100 gallons in sump 1 660 power jet 2 MH actinic setup 165 /150 MH's and 65 95 watt actinics occupants 4 feather dusters 15 turboes maybe 20 10 bumble bee snails 20 neiserria snails 20 hermet crabs 2 blue damsels 2 dominoe damsels 1 dottyback 1 yellow tang 2 green clown gobies 1 purple chromis corals: nothing fancy yet, 2 sps acro 1 frogspawn 2 zoanthid rocks 1 goniopora 2 yellow polyp corals 1 leather 2 star polyp rocks/frags 3 campanella's 1 favite 3 ricordias 1 mushroom rock 4-5 hitchiker crabs lots more critters in LR some corals/sps on fiji rock, growing nicely trying to take pictures to visualize progress The big difference in the tank occurrend when I added the two overflows and sump, and bioballs. The clarity even surpassed the magnum 350 micron filter. My pumps mag 12's are being underutilized because of the amateur plumbing I did. I'm using python hosing for outflow 1 pump fights 6 feet minimum of hosing. The other only about 3 feet. Still the water motion is pretty brisk. Future Upgrades: 1) better skimmer 2) better pvc plumbing 3) better sump in unfinished part of basement(rubbermaid horse feed container) 4) CA reactor 5) Auto top off 6) Refugium 7) upgrade lighting with custom lighting installed I love the way the tank is looking now, my wife is nuts about how much time I spend with it staring at it. Its truley gorgeous, its been up for only couple months now. My readings have never spiked. Even with the current bioload. I tried experimenting with a sump DSB, but I soon learned these tanks are living breathing entities they need a fairly good amount of ventilation. I keep a basement window open now. I use buffers and Ca, purple up, and trace element repletion on a regular basis. I top off with nutriwater from the store. Premade saltwater. Now I switched to RO/premade saltwater the store sells instead of the brandname stuff. Initially I regretted putting damsels in, but now I look at the blues which have really come out, and they are truely gorgeous fish. I had a watchman goby that always wanted to enter the overflow boxes. So now he lives in a spare tank I use for Q. My green gobies like the SPS too much. I'm thinking of getting rid of them. But the SPS is not too expensive and willing to see if they can manage with them. Chris |
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05/23/2006, 09:56 PM
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05/23/2006, 10:10 PM
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Here's my 125g tank about 2 years ago when it was primarily a softy/LPS tank...
 Here it is in it's current form...transitioning to primarily SPS/LPS... 
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05/23/2006, 10:55 PM
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Here is mine:
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Gabriel It's about time! |
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05/23/2006, 11:06 PM
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glaudds, What did you do with that leather? That is a NICE piece!
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Surgeon General's WARNING: This hobby may be addictive, and has also been known to drain bank accounts. Current Tank Info: 90 AGA MegaFlow, 120 lbs. LR, RedSea Berlin skimmer, 20 gallon sump, 2 150W Metal Halide |
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05/23/2006, 11:13 PM
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05/23/2006, 11:16 PM
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I found a way to make a small fortune running a reef tank. Start with a large fortune. Unofficial President of the SEACLONE haters club Current Tank Info: 125 mixed reef 110 lbs LR, 1x250watt XM 20K MH 2x175watt XM 20K MH on Magetics 2X96 watt actinic PC, 220 watt VHO actinic, 30 gallon refugium, closed loop system powered by Sequence Dart MSX 200 skimmer 38 gallon sump, Oceansmotions squirt |
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05/23/2006, 11:20 PM
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I found a way to make a small fortune running a reef tank. Start with a large fortune. Unofficial President of the SEACLONE haters club Current Tank Info: 125 mixed reef 110 lbs LR, 1x250watt XM 20K MH 2x175watt XM 20K MH on Magetics 2X96 watt actinic PC, 220 watt VHO actinic, 30 gallon refugium, closed loop system powered by Sequence Dart MSX 200 skimmer 38 gallon sump, Oceansmotions squirt |
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05/23/2006, 11:23 PM
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A leather that size is illegal in the lower 48.
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05/23/2006, 11:55 PM
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mg426, that picture hurt my eyes. And sloshes...... what!?
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05/24/2006, 06:04 AM
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Just started it a couple weeks ago.
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05/24/2006, 07:26 AM
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man nice tank dave, those lights look a litte short for the tank. what size are they
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05/24/2006, 07:30 AM
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Left:
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05/24/2006, 08:44 AM
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Thor its a 3000 Jigawatt T5,MH,VHO,PC fixture. And its about 10 foot long. Its just that the tank is 14 feet long.
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05/24/2006, 09:18 AM
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 edit: Made bigger.
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Think for yourself. Question authority. Current Tank Info: 125 gal AGA, setup on 1/1/06; 29 gal seahorse tank, setup 10/21/06 |
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05/24/2006, 10:57 AM
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It's just sloshesv, your Honor Current Tank Info: 55 gallon reef, 20 gal seahorse and leaf fish |
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05/24/2006, 02:11 PM
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I just took some new ones of my 3 week old tank. I transfered my 50 gallon into this tank though so it has a head start.
  
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05/24/2006, 02:26 PM
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Nice tanks!! here is some pics of mine
     
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05/24/2006, 02:34 PM
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That yellow fish is cool! What is he?
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05/24/2006, 02:39 PM
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Longhorn Cowfish ( Longhorn Boxfish)
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05/24/2006, 02:39 PM
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Not really a 125 but.....
 48x18x30
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05/24/2006, 02:52 PM
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Yes that is a long horn is the coolest looking fish
great personality.
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2 yellows tail damsels, yellow watchman goby, tail spot blennie, purple pseudocromis, starry blennie, 2 clowns, 1 black clown, mandarine & Yellow tang Current Tank Info: 125 AGA, 3 40W 6500K, 3 110W URI Actinics, running on 2 IceCaps 660, CSS125 |
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