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#11 out of 1147 reef tanks worldwide |
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7.55 |
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938 |
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Full reef tank pic.
Over 100 coral and 50 fish |
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| Tank Size: |
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Aquarium Profile: Main Tank: 2.4 x .850 x 720 approximately 1500 Litres Sump Tanks: Two 1.20 x .50 x .400 approximately 500 Litres 3 year old tank Filtration: Protein skimmer.. Deltec AP1004 Calcium Reactor.. aquacare Computer system.. GHL. Main Pump .. Deltec 5250, 6000L Top up.. Tunze Osmolator, IKS dosing pump Water Flow .. Tunze Streams, 4 x 6100(12000L) 1 x 6200 (20000L)
Use PRODIBIO products to reduce nutrients and improve coral colours |
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#12: jojo  [ Reef Tanks ] | |
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#12 out of 1147 reef tanks worldwide |
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7.54 |
| Number of Votes: |
854 |
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60gl Reef with 3 10,000K HQI's,
wavemaster pro, builtin overflow with sump, reef devil down draft skimmer, chiller, 172lbs of fiji liverock & 120lbs of live sand.
In the reef hobby since 1990 and forever.
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Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb! (Batman the Movie) |
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READ,READ & READ !!! |
| Tank Size: |
60 |
| Description: |
60gl REEF
Hamilton Reef Star 10,000K HQI System,
Reef Devil 500 Down Draft Skimmer, Aqua 8 Watt UV Steralizer, Korralin Calcium Reactor, Aquadine Reef Controler for PH, Salinity, Temp, ORP and PC transfer. |
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#13 out of 1147 reef tanks worldwide |
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7.52 |
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149 |
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right side of 180 pentagon |
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"I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while" |
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Be careful when starting this hobby. It could change your life.... |
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Purple tang, 2 Bartletts anthias, 3 sunburst anthias, X-mas and leopard wrasses. Blue jaw trigger (male), flame angel, blonde naso tang. |
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3 year mixed reef with wide variety of zoos, softies, montis, acros, ricordia, and large polyps corals. Starting to collect blastomussas |
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180 |
| Description: |
My reef tank is a 180 gallon corner pentagon which has 48" sides and just under 60" across the full face. Lighting is provided by 2 x 400 watt 14K metal halides run on a pfo ballast and 4 x 95 watt VHO bulbs, 2 x actinic blue and 2 x actinic white bulbs running on icecap 600 ballasts. I have a central overflow running to a 35 gallon sump with a precision marine bullet 2 skimmer and a precision marine calcium reactor. The return is a Iwaki 55rlt pump through a 1" sea swirl. For added water movement, I run a closed loop driven by a Dolphin Ampmaster 3000, and a Vortech MP40 pump. All cooled by a Prime 1/3 hp chiller (summer primarily). |
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#14 out of 1147 reef tanks worldwide |
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7.49 |
| Number of Votes: |
916 |
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SPS dominated tank |
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| About Yourself: |
I started with a 120 gallon tank, progressed to 180, and now a 375. Going from 120 to 180 wasn't hard. The move to 375 was very challenging. Reef keeping becomes exceedingly difficult as the water volume increases.
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Patience and 10% water changes every 2-3 weeks. |
| Fish Kept: |
Green Chromis
Sohal Tang
Kole Tang
Clown Tang
Sailfin Tang
Zebra Striped Gobies
Red Fire Fish Gobies
Kaudern's Cardinal
Pyjama Cardinal
Clown Goby
Sunburst Anthias
Ruby Wrasse
Laboutei Wrasse
Scott's Fairy Wrasse
Copperbanded Butterfly
Green Mandarin
Lawnmower Blenny
Midas Blenny |
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Acropora: Prostrata, Austera, Tortuosa, Yongei, Millepora, Abrolhosensis, Solitaryensis, Pariis, and Cardus.
Montipora: Danae, Capricornis, Digitata, Spongodes.
Pocillopora: Damicornis and Hystrix.
Soft Coral: Xenia
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375 |
| Description: |
Display: 375 Gallon SPS dominated reef ( 72" x 60" x 20" )
Equipment: Tunze Streams, Sequence and Blueline pumps, Euro-Reef Skimmer, Schuran Calcium Reactor and another unbranded calcium reactor, and DIY Kalkreactor.
4 x 400watt DE HQI 20K Icecap, 4 x 54 watt Icecap T5 with Geisemann Actinics. |
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| #15: iwan [ Reef Tanks ] | |
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Switzerland |
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#15 out of 1147 reef tanks worldwide |
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7.48 |
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941 |
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full view |
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In my opinion the most important ingredients for successfully keeping sensitive sea animals are:
Take time, much time and watch the animals closely.
Changes to the system must always be done slowly. Fast changes usually have negative impacts.
Don't overlook the fact that most of the available animals and decorations (LR) are taken from the oceans.
As a diver in tropical waters I enjoy swimming in untouched coral-reefs, full of great and small life. The ability to do this in an incomparable system is very important to me.
As a diver there is an unwritten law: "Grasp nothing, do not carry anything forward... Except photos and memories." The thought to put animals from this singular habitat into an artificial biotope seems grotesque.
The uniqueness of the habitat "coral reef" is dependent on every resident. Every organism is a small, important part in the success of this wonderful world.
It is necessary to understand and be conscience of these.
I try to offer my animals an adequate and natural habitat.
If possible, I always give after-cultivations and coral fragments the advantage.
My topmost aim is keeping corals and fishes and not has to replace them. Unfortunately, there are reef keepers who replace the fishes and corals once in a while. Simply, unsuitable conditions and a lack of experience/interests are the reasons for it. I personally disassociate myself with those that do not care. The preservation of the natural coral-reefs isn't only a thing for the governments; everybody can and should make their own contributions.
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2 Zebrasoma flavescens
1 Zebrasoma veliferum
20 Pseudanthias squamipinnis
11 Chromis virdis
3 Amphiprion ocellaris
2 Oxycirrhites typus
2 Synchiropus splendidus
2 Labroides dimidiatus
1 Salarias fasciatus
1 Gobiodon okinawae
2 Gobiodon histrio
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several stone corals |
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210 |
| Description: |
Tank Details:
- Tank Size:
210 gallons
- Lighting:
Pure T5!!
2x54 Watt ATI Aquablue Special
2x54 Watt ATI Blue Plus
4x80 Watt ATI Aquablue Special
4x80 Watt ATI Blue Plus
For a total of 856 Watts. The lamps are changed every 6-8 months.
T5 for stone corals?
The light conditions compared at tropical reef roofs, we can often offer our corals only compromises both in the spectral light composition and in the intensity of radiation.
It just therefore makes sense to put the radiant energy with artificial light sources available in the areas in which the photosynthesis is supported optimally.
In comparison with the exclusive illumination with HQI the lights offer the corals a more efficient possibility with T5 technology of delivering sufficiently photo synthetically utilizable radiation (PUR).
This also is due to the more unfavorable radiation orientation besides the high waste of energy (approx. 20%) of the much HQI lamps with a stronger shading of one's own.
Through this coral can as a percentage absorb less PUR radiation.
By the T5 lights my corals have got much more colored.
The growth also has increased.
For me the T5 technology is the best opportunity for the light extraction.
- Water Changes:
10% weekly changes with Reverse Osmosis water.
- Technical Equipment:
Skimmer: Aquamedic Turbofloater
Flow pumps: Tunze Streams
Ozone: None
UV: None
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Canada |
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#16 out of 1147 reef tanks worldwide |
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7.48 |
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648 |
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My updated 46 gallon bowfront reef aquarium. |
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"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep, swimming, swimming, swimming." |
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Been in the hobby for about five years. My very first fish was an Oscar. Then moved over to the freshwater comunity tank. I then went on to African Cichlids, then made the move to fully planted aquariums, now I am a owner of one 26 gallon bowfront planted aquarium, and my 46 gallon bowfront reef aquarium. I love bowfronts! |
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Keep your fish happy and healthy, and try to make them feel at home as much as you can. |
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Anthias
Chromis
Clowns
Blue Tang
Coral Goby
Midas Blenny |
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SPS & Some LPS |
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46 |
| Description: |
- 46 Gallon Oceanic Bowfront Aquarium
- 36"x16"x20"
- Flow: 2x Hydor 3 ( plenty flow )
- Filtration: Prizm Protien Skimmer, Phosban Reactor, Live Rock
- Lighting: 2x 400 Watt Metal Halides 14,000K, PFO Mogul reflector boxes, and PFO pulse-start 2x 400 Watt Ballists |
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#17 out of 1147 reef tanks worldwide |
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7.47 |
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165 |
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My Reef Tank |
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never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake |
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I'm a surgical assistant. Married to a wonderful woman, have two beautiful girls. I 've been in the hobbie on or off for 15 years. Started freshwater tropical fish, moved to african cichlids, and much later came saltwater fish and reef tank. The demands of my job are stressfull, so i relax tinkering with my tank |
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Very expensive hobby, buy as if you are setting up for your next bigger size tank, this will save you some money later. Start with soft hardy corals and work your way to the stony corals later. |
| Fish Kept: |
Hippo tang, yellow tang, sailfing tang, tomato clown,watchman goby, mandarin, bicolor blennie,gumdrop goby, cleaner shrimp, 20 or so hermit, red tip crabs, turbo snails. |
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star polyps, yellow polyps, red ,orange, pink and green zooanthids, orange florida ricordia, montipora,brown, red , green mushrooms, toadstool leather, finger leather, frogspawns, pulsating xenias, candy cane, galaxia, brain corals, green/blue acropora. |
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150 |
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150 gallon starphire front and sides 60X24X25. Euroreef skimmer, current sunpod lighting with 150w halides, lunar night leds. Danner 9,5 mag pump. New koralia 5 and koralia 4 X2. Corner overflow. 2 four unit fans to keep tank between 75 and 79. keeping tank at that range help to contron algae growth. My water parameter are always perfect . water changes regularly. |
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United Kingdom |
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#18 out of 1147 reef tanks worldwide |
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7.44 |
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207 |
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130 Gal Mixed Reef,close to 4 years old. |
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None |
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Nothing |
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Listen and learn,be patient |
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Sailfin Tang,two leopard wrasse,Marine Beta,three Cardinals...Marine
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Various stonies,several morphs of star polyps
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130 |
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130 Gal reef tank.
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#19 out of 1147 reef tanks worldwide |
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7.43 |
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685 |
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my new tank vol 2 |
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540 |
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www.adamrafcia.zw.pl |
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| #20: yoda [ Reef Tanks ] | |
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Canada |
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#20 out of 1147 reef tanks worldwide |
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7.43 |
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465 |
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yoda's tank |
| Advice: |
read a lot before you start.
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lots |
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too many to name |
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220 |
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220 gal, deltec everything, tunze streams, geisman lighting |
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