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My 205G Fantasy Reef

Hi everyone I would love to share my piece of ocean with you guys.
To start I been in the hobby for around 6 years of constant learning and enjoyment, as many of us I started with freshwater tanks this leading me into saltwater the ultimate..lol
I dont consider myself an expert neither a newbie Im just very enthusiastic hobbiest:razz:.

TANK 205g 72LX30WX22H Dual corner overflows 3" eurobrace
SUMP 75g 40LX24LX18H rimless
REFUGIUM 20g tall Cheato, mangroves and rock
PUMPS 2xEheim 1262
SKIMMER Reef Octopus 3000 internal..
POWERHEADS 2MP40Wes with battery back up
NEPTUNE SYSTEM
LIGHTING....At fisrt 3modules of AI Super Blue but went back to T5s current lighting is a 60" Ati Sun Power 8X80W
Top Off ..Gravity fed 50g container at the back of the tank.

Tank was built on site giving the circumstances of very little room to come down to the basement.

Here we go..

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Originally Posted by reefwars (Post 836381)

oh das sexy!!!!!

Thanks:biggrin:..forgot to mention the tank is side star fire and I run a two little fishes phosban reactor....

that flamefin tang is awesome one of my faves, nice zoo collection too i may have to do some trading with ya some day;)

Very nice! You clearly know what you're doing. Keep on reefin' on :-)

P.S. I LOVE your LPS clusters. That looks awesome!

Nice Tank! Love that collection of LPS.

awesome update alex!!! iam glad more and more Ontario reefers are joining canreef! we gotta rep our hood ya know ma gangster!!!:D

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Originally Posted by JDigital (Post 836458)

Nice Tank! Love that collection of LPS.

Thank you, I still have to get an orange and a yellow hammer to complete the group

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Originally Posted by Slyguy00 (Post 836459)

Very nice setup!

Thank you:biggrin:

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Originally Posted by thmh (Post 836511)

awesome update alex!!! iam glad more and more Ontario reefers are joining canreef! we gotta rep our hood ya know ma gangster!!!:D

Yes my man, it looks like Canreef is a great site with nice people. Thank you my gangsters :lol:

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Originally Posted by reefwars (Post 836384)

that flamefin tang is awesome one of my faves, nice zoo collection too i may have to do some trading with ya some day;)

Thanks and for sure we can do some trading anytime..

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Originally Posted by kien (Post 836397)

Very nice! You clearly know what you're doing. Keep on reefin' on :-)

P.S. I LOVE your LPS clusters. That looks awesome!

Thanks, LPS are so graceful got to have them..

That's a killer scape you started with I love it. Corals are looking really nice too. Looking forward to seeing this grow in.

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Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 837060)

That's a killer scape you started with I love it. Corals are looking really nice too. Looking forward to seeing this grow in.

Well thank you. Initially I wanted to build 3 islands but I ended up connecting all of them but I was not happy with the results so I took some significant pieces and made some room for fishes to swim,
I think minimalistic rock scape makes the tank looks nicer now is all up to the coral placement that will show what I really have in mind.
Another point is that I want to be able to have same family corals in sections without worries of them stinging each others.
My next step is to add sps to the top and let them take over. We will see

Well is been a while since I last update but here we are.. during this time few things happened one of them is that I lost my SPS (Human mistake) fortunately I did not have many of them but still sucks.
Anyhow things are way better now everything is back to normal and Im hoping to get some substantial pieces.
I changed my Reef Octopus skimmer for a BK 200:mrgreen: which is rocking along and also added 2- 48" reefbrights to bring back that pop I was missing since I went back to T5s from LED.
I also added a Naso and that makes 4 tangs now all getting along:biggrin:

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Beauty reef! I like the LPS garden as well.

Wow, love the coral selection in this tank!!! Crazy colours and variety , would love to have a frag of each of those zoas :D

Awesome looking Alex. I forget if you mentioned earlier in thread but do you have pellets running on this system?

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Originally Posted by Scythanith (Post 866356)

Beauty reef! I like the LPS garden as well.

Thank you, the reef is starting to take shape now and with adding SPS will look complete soon.

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Originally Posted by Poseidons Reef (Post 866362)

Wow, love the coral selection in this tank!!! Crazy colours and variety , would love to have a frag of each of those zoas :D

Thanks, I have to take pictures with LEDs only and you will love it.
Just let me know what zoas do you like and Ill make frags for you no problem:mrgreen: got to love the zoas no matter what...

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Originally Posted by uniboob (Post 866366)

Awesome looking Alex. I forget if you mentioned earlier in thread but do you have pellets running on this system?

Thanks Jerry and I do run BRS granular ferric oxide.

I guess is time for an update....System is almost 2 years old and I have not focus much in adding more fish but I have in mind a school of fish possible blue reef Chomis..
The tank went tru a short slime outbreak but it got controlled on time now I will start adding more SPS and maybe few colourful donuts:lol:

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A school of blue reef Chomis would look great:biggrin:.
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Awesome looking tank. Love that huge rainbow c

Wow that is a nice build!! Nicely done.

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Originally Posted by rburns24 (Post 913378)

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A school of blue reef Chomis would look great:biggrin:.
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I think so Robert:lol:

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Originally Posted by Scythanith (Post 913388)

Looking good!

Thanks

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Originally Posted by Madreefer (Post 913392)

Wow!!! Nice tank

Thanks getting there:biggrin:

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Originally Posted by Salty23 (Post 913458)

Awesome looking tank. Love that huge rainbow c

Thanks and thats an Australomussa:big grin:

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Originally Posted by fortheloveofcrabs (Post 913466)

Wow that is a nice build!! Nicely done.

Thanks :biggrin: