Setting up a new 185 reef tank.

[Cameron]

and updated pics?

[JoelV]

The reef tank today still awaiting some lps and sps corals. I have Profilux unit up and running, I'm still working on having it control the lighting and dosing, So far so good, Sure is nice to use the LAN card interface on my shop network, can look at it from any computer connected to the router. the tank is really starting to eat up the carbonate and mag so I'm going to get my reactor hooked up soon. I lost a sea hare in the tank and have not noticed any ill affects whatsoever haven't seen it in weeks, its got to have died.

[JoelV]

185 gallon 72x25x24 cross braced 2 skim boxes,
with 70 gallon sump all built by H20 Aquarium.

Pacific Coast Skimmer PS-3000

Phosban reactor with charcoal

Profilux pro plus with lan controller

400watt Lumatek digital ballasts

Reef optix reflectors

Eco plus ½ horse chiller heater combo

Coralvue 14k 400 watt bulbs

Reeflo Dart pump

Pacific Coast ozone generator

Jakarta live rock.

Carib-sea Live reef sand course grade


Two fairy wrasse Hi Fin Banded goby pair with a pistol shrimp

Yellow tang Purple tang

Sailfin tang Naso tang

Two gold headed sleeper gobies Blue tang

Coral beauty 10 cromisis

Candy cane coral goby Sand dollar

4 kinds of snails orange/red/blue/algae hermits

2 cleaner wrasse one lost or dead seahare

4 -5 inch unidentified centipede looking thing that comes out at night,.

[tang daddy]

looks good so far, the rock is nice love the coraline algae!

What are you using for water movement any powerheads?

Might I suggest that it would be better to run carbon in a canister filter that's what I do now and it works great. I use a ehiem ecco 2236 and have 3 of the 5 chambers filled with charcoal, have the supply going from the display and the return in the refuge compartment in my sump. The pump on the canister is not plugged in because it causes a siphon from the display to the sump.

[JoelV]

Originally Posted by tang daddy

looks good so far, the rock is nice love the coraline algae!

What are you using for water movement any power heads?

Might I suggest that it would be better to run carbon in a canister filter that's what I do now and it works great. I use a ehiem ecco 2236 and have 3 of the 5 chambers filled with charcoal, have the supply going from the display and the return in the refuge compartment in my sump. The pump on the canister is not plugged in because it causes a siphon from the display to the sump.

If you look at previous pictures of the build you can see the manifold i built to help with water movement. I like this because I did not want un sightly power heads and water movers visible in the tank I do however have two that are behind the rocks to help with some hard to flow areas

[untamed]

Originally Posted by JoelV

I lost a sea hare in the tank and have not noticed any ill affects whatsoever haven't seen it in weeks, its got to have died.

You might be surprised. They are nocturnal and hide very well during the daytime in spite of their size. In a tank that size, I'm not surprised you haven't seen him lately. I lost mine for weeks and it is maybe 7"L x 4"W. The thing is huge.

[JoelV]

[JoelV]

I used the flash on the first pic and no flash on the rest , the flash seemed to drown out the colors and to much glare, I tunrned off the sourounding lights to reduce the glare even more, you can sure tell im running 20k lights.

[X-Treme]

Wow.....Looks great. Sure wish I could get coraline to grow like that. 18 months and hardly ANY coraline.