An updateof my 45 reef tank:

[Fishguy2727]

The tank is doing VERY well. It is a 36x12x24 45 gallon tank. There is an Eshopps overflow box down to a 10 gallon sump with a bubble tower, refugium, and pump section. The Return pump is a Rio. There is also a 404 mini jet pump that runs two piggy-backed Phosban reactors, one with RowaPhos and one with Seachem Matrix Carbon. The return from the sump is on the right side of the tank and the flow sweeps from the top right across the front of the tank. Then there is a 400gph pump on the left side blasting water behind the rock work (something that is very important yet almost always overlooked. There is about 120 pounds of live rock in the tank. Black Estes' Marine Sand in the display and Aragalive Bahamas Oolite in the refugium.

Seaclone 150 Protein Skimmer.

I recently converted from a 2x96watt compact fluorescent fixture to a 4x96watt compact fluorescent fixture. It no longer fits under the canopy and it is annoying to have to move it to do anything in the tank, but it is doing an amazing job. Two bulbs are full actinic, one is 50/50, and one is full 10,000K. The whites are on 10 hours and the actinics are on an additional hour on each end.

I do a five gallon water change at least once a week with RO water and Tropic Marin salt. Specific gravity is 1.025. Temp is 78F.

PH 8.3
Calcium 460
Nitrate 0.0
Phosphate 0.0

Stock:
Fish: Yellow Tang, Six Line Wrasse, Algae Blenny, Green Chromis
Inverts: Electric Flame Scallop, about 6 different types of fancy sponges (blue, pink, yellow, cream, black, orange, others), feather dusters, cleaner shrimp, electric blue knuckle hermits, electric orange halloween hermits, scarlet reef hermits, giant nassarius snails, green mantis (in sump), Derasa Clam, Crocea Clam, Sea Hare, and many others.
Corals: Gorgonian, Many zoanthids, mushrooms, white pompom/pink Xenia, Neon Green Fungia, Neon Orange Cycloseris, Symphyllia (looks like Lobophyllia), Ricordea, Palythoa, Rainbow Montipora, Superman Montipora, Purple polyped yellow Montipora, Red Montipora, Green Montipora, Purple Haze Montipora, and others.

The tank is not as blue as these pictures make it look, it is a nice balanced white.
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[Fishguy2727]

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[Fishguy2727]

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[Fishguy2727]

I just started feeding a few pellets of New Life Spectrum Thera+A 1mm every few days about a week ago, before that the fish didn't get anything. I feed the tank Brightwell (BW) Zooplantos-L, BW Phytochrom, BW Reef Snow, BW Replenish, BW Koral Color, and BW Restor. I think the Zoo, phyto, and reef snow are the most important. All of these are done every few days.

[kaybee]

Very nice!

Love the pics in the 2nd post! Publication-quality photos' of the zoanthids!

I didn't know clams could be maintained under PC lighting, but I suppose the quantity of PC's you have are dishing out the PAR they require (coupled with the medium to high level you have them at).

[Fishguy2727]

Thank you.

Yes, you read about 'HALIDES, HALIDES, HALIDES!' with clams, then you read an article about how the light output of a halide is not significantly more per watt than other forms of lighting, it is just concentrated in a 2" output. This means clams right under this higher concentration of light will get the light they need, but between halides they may actually end up with less than what they would get if setup like mine. That, and halides usually are not considered a necessity until about 24" of height. The Derasa is less to worry about, they live deep and don't need as much light (although I am not sure that most that make it to reef stores are actually collected that deep, I doubt it). The Crocea is more to worry about, that is why this one is up so high.

[Northernguy]

That sure is a nice tank Fishguy!
Great shots too!thumbs2:
I wish I could sw supplies easier.I'd have to order everything and Canadian shipping costs are outragious!

[MCHRKiller]

I never realized you kept a reef FishGuy....it looks great :22: Sweet pics of the corals as well!

[Lady Hobbs]

It looks just awesome. Nice job.

[Fishguy2727]

Thanks everybody.

[Miltonic]

beautiful reef, that yuma looks amazing!

[Amazon]

nice, I love the feather duster. i didnt know you kept a reef either.

[robnepper]

Thanks for sharing and helping to maintain my long term vision for marine tanks. It's difficult to wait for it sometimes. I have done my book work, now it's just all about space and money.