120 gallon Oceanic Tec Tank- SPS dominate. Custom Steel Stand with DIY 40B sump.

The Setup:

This tank was an upgrade build from my 85 gallon bowfront. I bought my first home and upgraded at the same time. I got the tank used from a friend as Oceanic no longer makes these specific tanks, plus I am somewhat of a budget reefer. 90% of all the equipment was bought used and spaced out over time. The tank is a standard 4x2x2 120 gallon with starphire glass, center overflow and eurobracing. Custom Steel Stand- 40" Tall welded by a friend and then powder coated black with adjustable feet. DIY 40B sump- Heavy Skimming, small fuge, EcoBak pellets and GAC.

Equipment:

Lighting: Giesmann Spectra Fixture- 2 400W MH Radiums- 4 T5's- 3 ATI blue+ 1 KZ Fiji Purple- 48" Current Trulumen all blue LED strip for supplementation.

Flow: 2 Ecotech MP40s and 1 Tunze 6155.

Skimmer: SWC 230 Cone

Return Pump: DC Speedwave 10000- Setup through a manifold- powers the tank, 2 reactors, and a chiller.

Avast MR5 Reactor with bio-pellet nozzle mod- contains ecobak
Synery Reef Reactor- GAC
Avast Kalk Stirrer

BRS Dosing pumps: 2 1.1ml for BRS 2 part and 1 50ml for kalk stirrer.

ATO: Tunze Osmolator- 15 gallon ATO tank

Spectrapure RODI-90 GPD

Controller: Neptune APEX

Husbandry and Maintenance:

I clean my glass almost daily as I feed very heavily and have quite a bio-load. I use a flipper magnet which is fantastic. I inspect my tank very closely and let the corals tell me a lot. I test monthly at this point. I cannot stress enough to have proper test kits. I prefer hanna for alk and phos. Salifert for everything else. I do 5 gallon water changes once a month. I clean my powerheads every 2 months. I clean my skimmer every 6 months along with the bio pellet reactor unless I can see its clogged. I change my 7" filter sock when it begins to overflow. (2 weeks)

Livestock:

Fish:
1 purple tang
1 powder brown tang
8 blue/green chromis
1 Male Lyretail anthias
1 mystery wrasse
1 melenurus wrasse
1 male lineatus wrasse
2 SA frostbite clowns
1 aiptasia eating filefish (temporary)

Inverts:
RBTA
Rock Anemone
Various Snails

Coral:
Acros-
$500 Efflo
ORA Red Planet
ORA Hawkins
ORA Joe the Coral
ORA Pearlberry (all time favorite)
Green Slimer
Tyree Pink Lemonade
Tubbs Pink Jade
PC Rainbow
RMF Acid Trip millepora
RMF Ruby Red Granulosa
Nick's Bubble Gum Milli
Blue Hoek
A. Secale
Mari Tri color A. Loripes
Aussie A Spathulata
Mari- Pink Metallic Millepora
Pink Dragon w/ green tips
Purple Dragon with green tips
JF Tripping Tenius
JF Hyper ventillation millie
JF Coolers Champagne
E-Corals Unknown

Montis-
Setosa
Rainbow
Forest fire Digi

Chalices:
Bubble Gum
Mummy Eye-
Maroon with gold eyes
Blue w/pink and yellow
Cherry Crush

Zoas/Palys
Darth Mauls
CARs
Miami vice
Blue Hornets
WWC Evil Hearts
Midas Golds
Solar Flares
Magicians

1 aquacultured Blue maxima Clam- Dragon Soul Favia and Mias Pot of Gold Favia-Various Psammacoras, Lapastrea, and Leptosaris, mushrooms and others Im sure I missed.

LPS-

Acans
Aussie Orange Torch
Frogspawn
Lobo
Wellso
Blastos

• 4x2x2 120 Gallon Oceanic Tech Tank
• Geismann Spectra fixture w 2 SE 400W Radiums and 4 54w ATI T5's-2 blue+ KZ fiji purple
• 2 MP40's- 1 tunze 6155
• SWC 230 Cone Skimmer
• Dosing BRS 2 Part with BRS 1.1ml dosing pumps
• Running ecoBak pellets in an Avast MR5 Reactor
• Running rox carbon in a Synergy Reef Reactor
• Avast Kalk Stirrer- powered by BRS 50ml dosing pump
• Tunze Osmolator ATO
• Speedwave 10000 DC controllable Return pump
• Neptune APEX Controller

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