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Set Up Date : November 1, 1999

Tank Size (LxHxW | Volume): 200 gal RR Oceanic with custom stand and canopy

Sump Size (LxHxW | Volume): 40 gal plumbed custom acrylic sump with baffle chambers

Live Rock (Mass): approx 300 lbs premium grade Fiji show rock
Left side of reef: forereef design with gradual slope
Right side of reef: reef cliff design with PVC suspension for overhang
Center reef: Free standing pinnacle

Live Sand (Mass): 4 inch sandbed of 005 CaribSea aragonite, seeded from my old 120 reef

Lighting (Type | Wattage | Photoperiod):
2 x 400W PFO metal halides, german 10K bulbs
4 x 96 W CSL PC's actinic
2 x 96W CSL PC's daylight in center of tank
40W incandescent for lunar cycle run by Aquacontroller

Actinic: 12 hour photoperiod
Daylight: 10 hour photoperiod

Protein Skimmer (Brand | Model): ETS 1000 with Iwaki 50RLT pump

Biological Filtration (Type): See above

Chemical Filtration (Type): None

Circulation (Rate | Brand | Model): 8 x MaxiJet 1200 powerheads
>4000 gph total circulation

Return Pump (Rate | Brand | Model):
MAK 4 pump

pH (Morning | Evening): 8.1 AM, 8.3 PM

Temperature (Range | oC | oF): 76-78F

Specific Gravity / Salintity (g/g | ppt): 1.025

Alkalinity (meq/l | dKH): 8-9 mEq

Calcium (ppm): 400-450 ppm

Ammonia (ppm): 0 ppm

Nitrite (ppm): 0 ppm

Nitrate (ppm): <10 ppm

Phosphate (ppm): 0

Fish :

6" Purple Tang
4" Sohal Tang
4" Yellow Tang
Mated pair of Gold-banded Maroon Clownfish
Mated pair of Saddle back Clownfish
Mated pair of Banggai Cardinals
3 Psuedochromis Fridmani
1 Midas blenny
2 Flame Hawkfish
1 Long-nosed Hawkfish
1 Dragon Goby


Corals :
LPS
2 open brains including rare 'tie dye' brain
2 closed brains
1 maze brain
1 white fox coral
1 green metallic hammer coral
1 purple with pink tip branched frogspawn
1 green tip branched frogspawn
1 metallic green open frogspawn
1 green with yellow tip torch coral
1 mumps coral
1 green and red galaxea
1 green cynarina
1 white bubble coral, sinuosa
1 lg toadstool leather
1 yellow Fiji leather
1 green Fungia
1 pink pagoda coral
2 calaustra trumpet corals
1 striped pulsing xenia colony
1 orange tree sponge
1 orange Scleronephthea
1 purple Scleronephthea
many star polyps, orange and yellow zooanthid polyps and assorted mushrooms varieties


SPS
Multiple acropora colonies including rare species
Emerald green pavona
Lg Green and yellow merulina
Pink millipora
Green and purple Montipora capricornis
Green pachyseris
Assorted frags


Invertebrates :
1 Mated Pair of Coral Banded shrimp
1 Red Serpent starfish
1 Black banded Serpent starfish
1 Sand sifting starfish
50 Nassarius snails
25 Bumblebee snails
15 Turbo snails
50 Margarita snails
50 Astrea snails
100 Scarlet hermit crabs
1 anemone crab
1 Queen conch
1 Tiger cowry
1 Australian pink cucumber
2 Orange filter feeding cukes
1 7" T. maxima clam, black and blue
1 6" T. maxima clam, turqoise
4 2-3" T. maxima clams, assorted colors
1 4" Derasa clam
1 E. quadricolor, rose bubble anemone
1 S. haddoni carpet anemone

Maintenance Program :
20% water change per month
Aragamight in daily RO/DI topoff
Iodine supplemented weekly
All food soaked in Selcon/vitamins
Feed Tahitian blend cryopaste 3x weekly with Golden Pearls rotifer substitute
Nori for Tangs

and...scrape the algae on the glass weekly.


Additional Equipment/Information :
All equipment run by Aquacontroller
K2R calcium reactor
20 lb CO2 bottle with regulator
25 lb Secondary CO2 removal chamber with Rio 600 prime pump, made by Bob Odenweller
Aquacontroller II with backlight, alarm module, lunar module
Aqualogic 1/3 hp drop-in chiller
Aqua 58W UV with wiper
Clearwater 1200 ozone unit
25 gpd Spectrapure RO/DI unit
Lamotte type refractometer
Wallet

Sorry, will have to do genus/species some other time.
Stay tuned for tank #2, the old 120 reef.

Internet site with pictures coming soon.


elvis



[This message has been edited by elvisdoc (edited 19 March 2000).]
 

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