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02-17-2008, 09:01 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 70
Karma: 158
 |  My 75g Tank
This is my first post on 3reef, so for starters hello! 
These are some pictures of my recently set up 75g soon to be reef tank. The tank was first up and running with water (RO/DI) and salt (Instant Ocean) on 01-22-08. It has a built in overflow box, with a DIY 29g sump that I made sitting underneath.
Heres a picture of my RO/DI unit, located in the bathroom next to my tank. 
Also, the stand was a DIY project built by me, it's nothing fancy or pretty to look at but it sure is strong. I built it with free spare wood from a golf course I work at, all the supplies and paint were free of charge making the stand cost a grand total of $0.00
Heres a picture of the overflow from behind the tank. 
Heres a picture of the plumbing underneath the tank. 
So far I've got about 40 lbs of base rock in the tank, with 1 piece of good live rock that I got from my LFS. I used 80 lbs of Aragonite reef grade sand for the bottom, and I put another 30 lbs of live sand bought from the store in the sump. I added a single yellow-tail damsel to the tank on 01-31-08 for the cycle.
Heres a picture of the fuge portion of the sump, without the 30 lbs of live sand. 
With the live sand in there is a 4-5 inch sand bed, and I plan to put Chaeto Algae in this chamber around the beginning of March. First i have to get the okay from Tangster, he's been walking me through the process since day one and has taught me so much!, a special thanks to him thats for sure!
Here is a picture of my yellow-tail. 
So far he's been very happy and healthy living in the tank during the cycle, I have yet to see any ill effects.
As I said i used 1 piece of good live rock from my LFS, heres a picture of that. 
The rest of the rock is base rock that I saved and bleached from my old saltwater tank that I disassembled 2 years ago. Here are some pictures. 
I used snail shells completely coated in Carolline algae to help seed this base rock, I placed them all over. A guy from my LFS gave these too me free of charge from a well established tank there. 
Here are a few more pictures of the sump, the return chamber is to the far right, and in the middle is the are that houses my skimmer and heater. The skimmer is not on however, I won't skimm the water for the first 12 weeks.  
I also am only running blue lights during the cycle, but only for a few hours every other day.
Finally here are a few full shot pictures and a Tank shot to show the aqua scape.
Tank Shot with Stand open, 
Full shot of the Sump, 
And Tank Shot 
Thanks again 3reef for letting me be apart of your community
Thank you Otty, for convincing me to post and for re-lighting my fire with your amazing tank thread!
And a special thanks to Tangster, thank you for everything you've taught me so far and thank you for saving me from making many mistakes! Also, thank you for taking the time out of your day to help me, I look forward to talking to you soon. | 
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02-17-2008, 09:09 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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Welcome to 3Reef>>>>>> Nice lookin setup!!!! Nice pics....
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 australian black perc clown ,1 porcelain crab, , 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, neon grn bali slimer acro, purple acro, millipora's, feather duster, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | 
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02-17-2008, 09:32 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
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" And the Emmy goes to..................Grotto". J/k Thats a great set-up and with Tangster and Otty by your side, you cant go wrong. I wish they(and this web-site) where around when I started in this hobby 20yrs ago. Good luck and keep the pics coming, I  over them.  _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew 
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02-17-2008, 10:07 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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love the tank gl hope it goes good for ya. | |
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02-17-2008, 10:14 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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To 3Reef!!! Salutations! Glad to see you found way here!
Beautiful setup. Good job!
Will be great to watch it develop.
Keep us posted! "Om"  "Reef on" _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott")
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02-17-2008, 05:17 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Glad I finally got to see some pics of your piece of the ocean. Job well done my friend. Keep up the good work and just take your time, life goes by fast enough. _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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02-17-2008, 07:49 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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That looks awesome!! Got quite the setup goin! Good luck with everything! _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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02-17-2008, 10:14 PM
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| | Zoanthid
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 34
Posts: 1,112
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well done
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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02-17-2008, 11:08 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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Nice! Welcome to 3reef! _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
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