wow! amazing rockwork! I agree -- the shadows will definitely play in your advantage. Very clean look. Following for sure

4x 60" 14000k

4x 36" actinic

anything other than chaeto that i should keep in my refugium?

With your lighting I think that you can do sps in certain places in your tank. Quite a few people are running gorgeous sps tanks with just T5s. You can always come grab some cheap sps frags from me and test them out.

thats exactly what i was thinking.... but you live sooooooo far from me. i live on 161 Ave :(

I was at both of your places and it's not to far in my opinion .. LOL

I really want a monti pora. But how would I attach it to my rock so it grows out from a ledge?

update:

fish have ich :( treating with herbtana for a week now, seems to be helping

also hooked up a UV sterilizer

and today i got an MP40 :) can never have enough flow (now have koralia 4 wavemaker with 4 koralia 4s, a koralia 5 in the back and now the MP40 pushing across the front)

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...7at64940PM.png

heres a video at the 2 month point

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNr4u...el_video_title

Nice job Marlo, awesome tank.
My Regal is my favorite fish, yours looks like its pretty cool too.

You can wedge a piece in your rock and over time it will encrust itself. If it's a frag on a plug it's easy, just glue the plug anywhere you like and watch it grow.

Heres my newest edition

72" aquamedic fixture.

4x 250 watt metal halide
4x 39 watt t5ho

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._5914010_n.jpg

heres a full tank shot with the lights installed

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...7at85301PM.png

That is beautiful. I love the rock arrangement and the new light.

Did you have to lose the canopy for the new fixture to fit?

Nope I opened the canopy and the fixture sits on top

so i was having problems with the lights heating the water to about 84F

so i installed 2 large computer fans to the back of the canopy and have decreased the temp to 80F while the halides are on.

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...7at95633AM.png

i will be adding fans to the stand too and hopefully it'll bring the temp down a couple more degrees.

i also re plumbed the return to the opposite side of the overflow as i was finding that i had film forming on my water.

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...7at95647AM.png

absolutely awesome. this tank after many years will definatly be one worth visiting. keep up the awesome work.

thanks man.

today i spent almost 2 hours scraping the glass.... hopefully i can find a way to never have to do this again :(

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...8at91136PM.png

Awesome! I love the aquascaping.

I really like the rock work and stand!

Mark

UPDATE :) ??

I'll take a photo when I get home

awesome looking tank bro, cant wait to see an update :)

heres a current FTS

Corals and frags are growing like crazy. everything has encrusted itself to the rock

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...1at72352PM.png

heres the sump. have some LR in there, mangroves and a euro reef skimmer
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...1at72416PM.png

and heres my cheato refugium. keeps the nitrates at 0. havent done waterchange in about 4 months
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...1at72406PM.png

Hey..... you sold me an albino pleco a long time ago..... Should have invited me in lol
Woulda loved to see it :)

Oh yeah. I didn't have this tank back then

Marko, very VERY nice setup!!!

I only have 1 word for you.................

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Love the pics too, reminds me that I have to play with my SLR a little more. Haha!

Totally forgot about this. Will have an update tomorrow. Lots of changes

heres an update:

FTS: redid the left side of the scape to give more room for corals
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at24327PM.png

got rid of the MH lights and got AI Sol Blues
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at32005PM.png

new skimmer in the sump: vertex in250
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at31953PM.png

refugium still going strong : harvest cheato about every 2 weeks
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at31931PM.png

and here are some pics of corals

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at25334PM.png
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at25402PM.png

this one started with one branch 2 months ago
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at25424PM.png

this also started as one branch about 3 months ago
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at25457PM.png

put this in about a month and half ago. started encrusting
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at25530PM.png

couple months in the tank. started encrusting and spreading
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at25556PM.png

lps on sand bed
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...at102641AM.png
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...at102555AM.png
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Your tank looks awesome and definitely like the rescaping! So jealous of your photography skills!

This is looking FANTASTIC! Subscribed!

I don't think I saw it in the thread, but what are the final dimensions of this tank? Thanks!

thanks.

the tank is a standard 180 gallon. 72x24x24

Gorgeous tank Marko. The new scape on the left looks really good.

Those Sols cast a nice light too, heh?

that looks awesome Marko, am I seeing correctly that you are only using 3 AI? how strong are you running them? BTW once I get the hang of sps, would you sell any frags and what would you want for $$?

take it easy mang.

Yeah 3 sols.

75 white
100 blue
100 royal blue.

I don't really have much that I can frag, most of my sps are frags still

Heres a progress update. Taking pictures is really the best way to notice growth. its been just under 6 months

March 5th
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at25424PM.png


Today
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...2at43443PM.png


March 5th
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at25530PM.png


Today
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...2at43413PM.png


March 5th
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at25556PM.png


Today
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...2at43527PM.png


These space monster zoas went from 1 head to 8 heads in about 6 weeks
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...2at43507PM.png

sump area has changed with the addition of a new skimmer. and subtraction of a bunch of crap


March 5th
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...5at31953PM.png


Today
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...D/DSCF1007.jpg

looking good man nice job on the space monsters;P

FTS taken with fish eye

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...3at42606PM.png

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...3at42759PM.png

very neat tank. what kind of coral is that in the middle on the sand? its looks hard on the sides and fleshy on top