My 65 after 8 months

[danny zubot]

Here's how to max out a 65 gallon tank.

Reef Inventory


April 2006

Fish:

2 Ocelaris Clowns
1 Bi-Color Angel
1 Six line wrass
1 Regal Tang
2 Red Cheek Anthias
1 Watchman Goby

Invertabrates:

1 Pistol shrimp
1 Squamosa clam
1 seabea anemone
1 olive snail
1 fighting conch
X cerith, nerite, nassarius, turbo snails & cowries
X hermit crabs

Corals:

Zoos: Brown with orange and green center
Zoos: Blue
Zoos: Peach
Zoos: Yellow with orange center
Zoos: Brown with full green center
Zoos: Brown with green and brown center
Zoos: Green with white center
Zoos: Orange with green center
Plate coral: Orange
Plate coral: Green
Blastomussa: Green
Brain: Red Tooth
Leather: Toadstool
Leather: Finger
Leather: Yellow Fiji
Leather: Kenya tree
Feather duster: Brown
Feather duster: Pink
Frogspawn: Green branching
Candy coral: Green
Mushroom: Green spotted
Mushroom: Green striped
Mushroom: Blue/purple
Mushroom: Green pimply
Mushroom: Orange fuzzy
Monti Cap: Orange
Monti Cap: Purple rimmed
Monti Cap: Purple
Monti Cap: Green
Acropora: Blue tip prostrata
Acropora: Unknown/green
Digitata: Green
SPS: unknown blob?

Tank Specific:

65 gallon with drilled 1.5” overflow
30 gallon sump
Mag 9.5 return
Beckett skimmer, run by Mag 18
Pinpoint Ph monitor
90 lbs live rock
30 lbs live sand, equivilates to 1.5 inch sand bed
400 watt 14K single ended metal halide
In tank circulation: 3x Maxi Jet 1200

Additional:

Photo period: 11:30 am to 9:30 pm (doesn’t include morning natural daylight starting at 7-8am)
Ph range: 7.98 at night to 8.36 on average
Dosage: Kent turbo calcium, Kalkwasser, Kent magnesium (dry), Kent strontium (dry), Ken liquid iodine, carbon.