My 90 Gallon from last spring.

[BCOrchidGuy]

Here's a pic of my 90 gallon tank as it sat last spring/early summer. It's a SeaStar 90 48x18x24h, a DAS sump with skimmer, a 45/50 gallon refugium.
Lighting is 2 x 175 watt 10,000k MH and 2 NO actinics, 12 hrs/day MH 14hrs/day actinic.
I used a naturalwave power bar with two Rio 1100s, as well as two Hagen pro3 power heads attatched to some 1/2 in PVC that ran down behind the rock to keep water moving back there. Lots of fish, and inverts.

I took the tank apart when the heat wave hit last summer, most of my coral died from my tank temps hitting 95+ degrees. I haven't decided what I'm going to do yet but I'll probably find a cheap fridge to use as a cooler and run some 1/2 in pvc through there on a mag drive, maybe run that while the lights are on... mind you if it's as hot as it was last summer maybe I'll run it 24 hours a day.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/sho...cat=500&page=1

Doug

[robbyville]

Beautiful!

I'm surprised that you had so many heating problems though. I run a stand alone 60 gal with 2x250w MH's and two fans in the canopy and did not have any problems this summer. I believe that our temps were about the same as yours? We have no airconditioning however on the hotest days we kept the blinds in the living room drawn.

[Jack]

Nice tank. Too bad it melted.

I know there are threads on RC on DIY chillers. A few guys are making them and they actually work. Could be an idea!

[martym]

Very very nice.

[BCOrchidGuy]

Thanks for the comments folks, Rob, oddly enough the heat problems were in my basement. The LFS said they had alot of people that lost coral etc over the last summer. I thought with it being in the basement though I'd be safe from heat issues.

Doug

[robbyville]

That is strange! Well hopefully you will set up again and be even more successful this season!

Rob