Archit's 275g

[Archit]

Hello everyone,

I heard great things about MR from a friend so I figured I'd join the bandwagon as well I'm from Boston, and looking to expand my reefer friends network!

Anyway! I couldn't find a meet and greet sub-forum so I figured I should create a tank thread for my tank to kick start everything.

Tank: Miracles tank -- 84" (length) x 30" (width -- front to back) x 25" (height). Center overflow. 3-sides starphire glass + A custom frag tank
Sump: Advanced acrylics Alpha series
Skimmer: Tunze 9430 + Deltec SC2530
Lights: 3 x Ecotech Radion Pro + 6 x T5s (12 x 39w T5s split evenly so it's really 6 T5s)
Pump: Ecotech Vectra L1
Powerheads: 2 x Ecotech MP60s + 2 x Ecotech MP40s

I'll upload some pics soon as well

- Archit

 

[duromega]

Welcome to MR
enjoy your stay

 

[Username Invalid]

Awesome tank dimensions can't wait to see some pics

 

[Archit]

Thanks guys

Here are some pics!:

Tank when delivered:

On the rough stand:

Rockwork done (no water) and sump in the bottom:

Annd we've water! (this was around early January):

 

[Archit]

Had someone local build the canopy for me:

Idea was to have the canopy on a rail system so I can slide it out when I need to do any maintenance. Here's when we first hung it up over the tank:

My first (and hopefully last) time ever wiring T5 retros ... boy they're a PITA:

 

[Archit]

Here's a pic of the full tank with stand and canopy -- please don't mind the mess all around. This pic is from March -- it's a LOT more full now to say the least

 

[Archit]

A few pics of some of the fish at the time ... unfortunately a bunch didn't make it after I introduced my tang army Basically to fight off the dreaded algae outbreak, I made the mistake of adding all 7 of my tangs a tad bit too early ... between the "active-ness" of the tangs and all the extra ammonia etc, lost quite a few fish But loved these beauties anyway so here are the pics:

 

[Archit]

After the algae bloom and losing a few fish, I decided to add my second skimmer -- Deltec SC2530

 

[Archit]

And my favorite part pics of corals!

 

[Archit]

 

[Archit]

 

[Brooklyn83]

Amazing setup, welcome

 

[ifarmer]

nice tank achit

do you have any full tank shot showing all colony corals.

 

[wheights]

Stunning tank...
Welcome

 

[duromega]

Beautiful Setup
Whats the name of the goby (last fish pic?)

 

[tran]

this guy is the master in photophop and using macro.
He has a photoshop talent to even make a browned out frag of SPS to look so colorful.
your tank looks great

 

[Archit]

this guy is the master in photophop and using macro.

wow someone is pissy! lol you are welcome to come and look at the tank yourself if you feel these are photoshopped. Considering I don't know how to use photoshop and don't have it on my computer, I'd love to know how you came to that conclusion.

And before you edited your post -- I never said I grew these from frags, so not really sure where that comment came from.

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[Archit]

Beautiful Setup
Whats the name of the goby (last fish pic?)

thank you! it's a flag fin goby

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[Archit]

this guy is the master in photophop and using macro.
He has a photoshop talent to even make a browned out frag of SPS to look so colorful.
your tank looks great

haha another edit? Jesus dude, wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

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[Archit]

this guy is the master in photophop and using macro.
He has a photoshop talent to even make a browned out frag of SPS to look so colorful.
your tank looks great

here you go -- a video I took a couple of days back. last time I checked, you couldn't photoshop videos, but maybe you know better ..

https://youtu.be/gUGmj19TLsc

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