Red Sea Reefer 525xl

Steve Peters

New Member
Joined
Mar 1, 2017
Location
Thunder Bay
Well I was asked to post my tank so here it is. I live in Thunder Bay and unfortunately livestock including corals and fish, inverts and oddities are tough to come by here with no LFS so everything is purchased online.
My equipment: I run 3 X Aqua Illumination Hydra HD 26 lights, my return is the Ecotech Vectra M1, Reef Octopus Elite 150 SSS skimmer, Apex controler that runs 2 WAV powerheads, 2 Enheim heaters, BRS doser for alk and I run Kalkwasser in my top-off water for calcium. For bio media I run 2 Gallons of Marine Pure and Siporax. I use Red Sea Coral Pro salt as a religion. I run a GFO reactor and use a little carbon along with Purigen hanging in my sump. Keep my sump dark... no lights.

For livestock: Yellow tang, hippo tang, 6 spot sleeper goby, 3 blue chromis, pair of lyretail anthias as well as a pair of fairy anthias, purple firefish, pygmy angel, maroon clown, blue-legged and scarlet hermits (50), mix of different snails (50), conch......

Corals: too much to list....

Parameters test weekly: Cal 450, Alk 10, Mg 1350-1400, NO3 trace, PO4 0.


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Steve Peters

New Member
Joined
Mar 1, 2017
Location
Thunder Bay
that pic was just after setup but its still very clean. This tank has been running for about a year but all the rock, livestock and media came from a transfer...
 

SamB

Super Active Member
Joined
Aug 9, 2015
Location
GTA
Great set up Steve - I love the Red Sea series !
Anyplace outside of the big cities, it is tougher to build up livestock in our hobby but you have done very well !
 
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