scubasteve
Distinguished Member
- Joined
- May 4, 2014
- Location
- Cambridge, Ontario
Well new to the site so figured i would post a few pictures and tell a little about it so originally i had a 65 gal tall made lots of mistakes learned lots of lessons the hard way but with good advice got on the right track and now doing great with no losses including additions in a year 
about 4 months ago i started the long process of cycling and then tranfering everything into a new 125 gal ( wont be doing that again anytime soon ) most of what i have is growing from frags but do have some colonies i kept from the 65. I built my own sump out of acrylic running a kent marine media reactor with phosguard have a reef octopuss nwb 150 classic cone protein skimmer (works great) drenner mag drive 1200 return pump and a autoaqua smart ato. I have a refugium with deep sandbed and about a 5 gal pail full worth of chaeto and drains from main tank with an aqueon overflow box. For lights i have 4 sol blue led modules about 12" off of surface replaced all the lenses with the narrow beam and removed the wide angle (12" above water took out beam effect) for fish i have a yellow tang, powder blue tang and a kole tang all happy and peaceful a few variouse damsels a false perc and a darwin clown, coral banded shrimp, 2 blood shrimp, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, 2 pistol shrimp, green mithrax crabs, porcelain crab, blue hermit crabs, green brittle star almost a dinner plate, red sea star, rock boring urchin, mandarin goby, 2 maxima clams and im sure im forgetting some things but gives a good enough coverage corals wont even list will see in pics just wished phone captured the colours a little better but will add more in a future post and glad to have already met a few people here some already know others just met[attachment=4604]
about 4 months ago i started the long process of cycling and then tranfering everything into a new 125 gal ( wont be doing that again anytime soon ) most of what i have is growing from frags but do have some colonies i kept from the 65. I built my own sump out of acrylic running a kent marine media reactor with phosguard have a reef octopuss nwb 150 classic cone protein skimmer (works great) drenner mag drive 1200 return pump and a autoaqua smart ato. I have a refugium with deep sandbed and about a 5 gal pail full worth of chaeto and drains from main tank with an aqueon overflow box. For lights i have 4 sol blue led modules about 12" off of surface replaced all the lenses with the narrow beam and removed the wide angle (12" above water took out beam effect) for fish i have a yellow tang, powder blue tang and a kole tang all happy and peaceful a few variouse damsels a false perc and a darwin clown, coral banded shrimp, 2 blood shrimp, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, 2 pistol shrimp, green mithrax crabs, porcelain crab, blue hermit crabs, green brittle star almost a dinner plate, red sea star, rock boring urchin, mandarin goby, 2 maxima clams and im sure im forgetting some things but gives a good enough coverage corals wont even list will see in pics just wished phone captured the colours a little better but will add more in a future post and glad to have already met a few people here some already know others just met[attachment=4604]
