hello, new reefer in need of some guidance

Hi all this is my first go a saltwater tank. it was setup on jan 15th 2009. My tank is a custom built oak stand and canopy housing a 130 drilled aquarium. I have 150lbs of live rock. I am currently using a PM redline series 150 and a Energy savers unlimited Coralife Super Skimmer 250. I have 2 ViaAqua 4900 aqua pumps (1300gph each) for returning water from my sumps. There are two hydor koralia 4 circulation pumps for extra water movement. For lighting i currently have two 48 inch HO T5's (german powerchrome bulbs)in a canopy retrofit kit (1 actinics and one 10000k), a bank of three 24inch HO T5's(all actinics powerchrome) and a galaxy dual 250w electronic pulse start ballast hooked up to two 250w 20,000k radium bulbs. I have two aqualight cooling fan kits housed in the walls of the canopy togther moving air at 140 cfm. i have just put the tank together and only have a couple of pieces of coral, frogspawn, hammers, a leather, torch coral, open brain, moon coral, finger wave, kenya tree, and zoo polyps. The tank also has a hawaiina naso tang, coral beauty, flame angel, diamond goby, cleaner shrimp, clownfish, lots of snails and crabs, a hawaiian pink-tip anemone and a red haitian anemone. latest test this morning put my water parameters at ammonia=0 nitrites-0 nitrates=0 phosphates=0 ph=8.2 calcium=420 kh=10dgrs.will be posting video and pics soon. will love to hear feedback and suggestions from any of you.

 

Sounds like a great tank! Me want pictures! :trampolin

Do the Coral Beauty and Flame Angel get along with each other? Normally those two fish would fight quite alot if living with each other.

 

heres two youtube video links. 1 of my tank (YouTube - davids 2month old reef tank) and 1 of my lights starting up(YouTube - medtal halide startup mpeg2video). Yeah my angel and flame were introduced to each other very young and they get along great. im watching for one of them to start eating coral though.

 

And you say you're new to keeping reef tanks? Looks awesome so far, keep us posted..

Cat4wisson

 

yeah its my second fish tank ever. The first being freshwater. Ive learned everything from forums and lfs.

 

You've got a very nice set up there. Great job. And welcome to 3reef.

 

Welcome to 3reef!

 

Dude, I'm watching your video. Your tank is OUTSTANDING! I love your Aquascaping! Your Corals and Fish look Extremely happy! Those rocks are PERFECT! (ok, now pop your head it's starting to get big) LOL Serious, Stunning!

 

Welcome to the reef! Looks like you're off to a great start.

 

Looks awesome man. Good music choices also.