Introduce your tank

[Smite]

Awesome thread. Great variety of tanks. I started with a 8g Aqueon AIO I converted from a planted tank, so I love seeing the nano systems.

Current system
50x36x26 - I assume my sump offsets my rock so I base dosing anything off 210g total water volume
Bare bottom no other reason than I love turbulent flow.
Lighting; 2x400w 14k metal halide in Cozumel Sun reflectors; paired with QuantaPro OG pop bars
Live stock - acropora dominant and that's basically my main focus now.
Husbandry - As much flow as I can provide without being too direct, quality light spectrum, trace element corrections and feed as much as the tank can handle. Water changes when necessary, RedSea Blue Bucket
Filtration - Skimmer; coral snow; refugium- chaeto lit above a fuge DSB with oolite; GAC; soon to be ozone once I decide on a reactor for added water clarity
ATO- gravity feed with float in sump. 20g res outdoors.
Dosing - At this point I'm still mostly kalkwasser (ESV) I ditched my calcium reactor for now. 6500ml per day and just starting to work in ESV 2 part. Only around 25ml A & B, this maintains Mag well too. 8.5/450/1400. no3 detectable -10ppm it tends to vary; p04 ideally .06-.1; ph is now 7.95-8.35 and growth improved. 1.024-1.025 SG.
Feeding - Daily OG phyto and color blend daily; Rod's Reef original thumb size piece daily; COOL mysis 2x daily; Auto feeder with vairous pellets 3 x a day. If I don't feed Rods I soak basic cubes in selcon or brightwells fish aminos but that's in a pinch. I like dirty food, I feel it helps with sps and the tank overall.
I was all about fish, specifically wrasse for awhile but now all I really care about is movement in the tank and nutrients for the acropora. Tangs, chromis, anthias, cleaner wrasse, bangaii, onxy percula and more.

 

[drexel]

That pink clam (noae?) is amazing!

Yup, T. noae and I would love to get another one soon.

 

[Dipan00]

I wanna be your friend looking at those beautiful sps

https://gfycat.com/acrobaticheftybarasingha

 

[o2manyfish]

We have a new tank, which is an upgrade display tank that went in place in Sept 2022. Our new display tank is a Titan Aquatic Exhibits 750g (120x48x30t). It's part of a 1500g total system.

Tank: 750g 120x48x30t - 1.5" Acryclic - Top acrylic brace engineered to support my fat butt laying across tank to reach the back wall of the tank.

Stand - Custom Built Cantilevered Deck steel stand - Designed by me, assembled with my help on my back patio. Made out of 3x3 and 2x4 1/4" steel wall. Painted with Bed Liner.

Lighting: 12 Radion G6 XR30 Pro's Attached to an Aluminum T-Slot frame that is suspended over the tank using an Auxx-Lyft motorized lift system to raise and lower the lights off a remote

Flow In the Tank: (2) Abyzz Flow Canon AFC-150, (1) Panta Rhei EMC 63

Aquascape: 1400+ Lbs of 20+ year old live rock. 50% was mature, 50% was old rock that did a citrus Acid bath on to get rid of old dead tissue on. Use Black Pond Foam to Glue Flat slab rocks onto the back wall of the tank. Built 2 independent aquascape structures using Fibergrate as a skeleton structure the rock is sitting on/against. And one tower of rocks that are pinned using Fiberglass Dowel Rods.

Filtration System:
1) 270g FRP Tank Outside with Approx 300lbs of Rock
2) 5' Fluidized Sand Filter
3) MRC Commercial Filter Mat Roller
4) Bubble King Marin 300 Internal
5) 120g chaeto refugium

Subsidiary Equipment:
Heating (1) 4500w 220v Titanium Immersion Heater
(1) 3500w 220v Titanium In-Line Heater

Ozone - 1500mg/hr Ozotech Ozonizer

UV - 160w ASM UV
110w MRC UV

Dastaco A9 Calcium Reactor

(2) 180g Outdoor entirely sunlit frag tanks


You can check out the tank whenever you like, given the lights are on with our public PTZ webcams.
Primary Camera is o2manyfish.com
A new camera we are testing - o2manyfish.com/right

 

[pikachux3]

Location: Orange County, CA
Date of setup: Fall 2022
Tank: 36"x18"x16" 40 breeder
Sump: Trigger Sump 26
Return Pump: DCP 6500
Controller: KASA Smart Powerstrip /w InkBird Controller
Lights: (2)-39w Sunblaster T5 Amazon, (2)-Kessil A360WE
Water movement: Looking to get a gyre pump or mp10/mp40
Filtration: Filter Sock, Chaeto Refugium, Skimmerless
Dosing: None atm
Other additives: Iodine and Chaetogro every few days
Food: New Life Spectrum and Reefroids
Fish List: (2) clownfish, (5) Chromis
Coral: frogspawn, hammers, blastomussa merletti, some montiporas, mushrooms, gorgonian, GSP, green toad stool, neon green toadstool, space invader pectinia, zoas, jack o lantern leptoseris
Inverts: bunch of snails of reefcleaners i don't remember, pincushion urchin

Fall 2022

Now

 

[SKremk]

My current tank is a 150 gallon (5' x 2' x 2'), which as been setup since October 2020. It has about 100 lbs of live rock set up as a small tower on the left and a larger arch/cave on the right. Lighting is with 3 x Radion G3Pros. Circulation is with two Tunze 6105s and two Tunze 6095s and a Danner Mag 24 return pump. Sump is 60 gallons and has a refugium and a AquaMaxx ConeS CO-5 skimmer.

Livestock is mostly LPS and SPS, with some mushrooms, clove polyps, nepytheas, stereonepthyas, and leathers. Fish include a purple tang, a scribbled rabbit fish, male Bimaculatus anthias, 2 pyramid butterfly fish, a green chromis, and a mocha brown clown.

 

[BST310]

My name is Ben, I’m in Carson, CA.

Current tank is a 15 gallon AIO from Innovative Marine. I set it up in January of this year after breaking down my 30 gallon. I feel like I’ve set-up more tanks than I’ve really “kept” in my short tenure in the hobby. Goal with this one is KISS and longevity.

So far I’m really enjoying the set-up in comparison to others I’ve had.

Dims: 15 X 15 X 15in.
Kessil A360X
Nero 3 set to
Innovative Marine desktop skimmer
Inkbird temp. Controller + BRS titanium heater

 

[drexel]

We have a new tank, which is an upgrade display tank that went in place in Sept 2022. Our new display tank is a Titan Aquatic Exhibits 750g (120x48x30t). It's part of a 1500g total system.

Tank: 750g 120x48x30t - 1.5" Acryclic - Top acrylic brace engineered to support my fat butt laying across tank to reach the back wall of the tank.

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Stand - Custom Built Cantilevered Deck steel stand - Designed by me, assembled with my help on my back patio. Made out of 3x3 and 2x4 1/4" steel wall. Painted with Bed Liner.

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Lighting: 12 Radion G6 XR30 Pro's Attached to an Aluminum T-Slot frame that is suspended over the tank using an Auxx-Lyft motorized lift system to raise and lower the lights off a remote

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Flow In the Tank: (2) Abyzz Flow Canon AFC-150, (1) Panta Rhei EMC 63

Aquascape: 1400+ Lbs of 20+ year old live rock. 50% was mature, 50% was old rock that did a citrus Acid bath on to get rid of old dead tissue on. Use Black Pond Foam to Glue Flat slab rocks onto the back wall of the tank. Built 2 independent aquascape structures using Fibergrate as a skeleton structure the rock is sitting on/against. And one tower of rocks that are pinned using Fiberglass Dowel Rods.

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Filtration System:
1) 270g FRP Tank Outside with Approx 300lbs of Rock
2) 5' Fluidized Sand Filter
3) MRC Commercial Filter Mat Roller
4) Bubble King Marin 300 Internal
5) 120g chaeto refugium

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Subsidiary Equipment:
Heating (1) 4500w 220v Titanium Immersion Heater
(1) 3500w 220v Titanium In-Line Heater

Ozone - 1500mg/hr Ozotech Ozonizer

UV - 160w ASM UV
110w MRC UV

Dastaco A9 Calcium Reactor

(2) 180g Outdoor entirely sunlit frag tanks


You can check out the tank whenever you like, given the lights are on with our public PTZ webcams.
Primary Camera is o2manyfish.com
A new camera we are testing - o2manyfish.com/right

I’ve seen Dave’s tank in person and it’s f’ing cool! So much movement, that you really need to spend some time taking it all in.


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[drexel]

My name is Ben, I’m in Carson, CA.

Current tank is a 15 gallon AIO from Innovative Marine. I set it up in January of this year after breaking down my 30 gallon. I feel like I’ve set-up more tanks than I’ve really “kept” in my short tenure in the hobby. Goal with this one is KISS and longevity.

So far I’m really enjoying the set-up in comparison to others I’ve had.

Dims: 15 X 15 X 15in.
Kessil A360X
Nero 3 set to
Innovative Marine desktop skimmer
Inkbird temp. Controller + BRS titanium heater

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I love nano tanks, so this should be fun! Looking good, Ben!


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[Emac909]

Idk but am I the only one that thought “isn’t there a section for introductions and another for tank builds or setup”?

Yea I thought so

 

[Gedxin]

Idk but am I the only one that thought “isn’t there a section for introductions and another for tank builds or setup”?

Yea I thought so

Eh. This was a cool show what you're rockin' with one post kind of thing. I dig the spontaneity.

 

[Dorado]

Haters gonna hate. Keep ‘em comin’

 

[JojosReef]

Idk but am I the only one that thought “isn’t there a section for introductions and another for tank builds or setup”?

Yea I thought so

Pics of your tank!!!

 

[DEWreefing]

https://gfycat.com/acrobaticheftybarasingha

Hahaha

 

[rmor]

It's depressing seeing every third thread lately being about scammers and what not, so I thought I'd try to lighten things up. One of my favorite things about reefing is seeing and talking about other people's tanks. There are a few people on this site that have build threads, but it seems like the vast majority don't. I was thinking it would be cool if anyone that wanted to, would introduce themselves and a little about their tank (of course including a few pictures). This would allow people to put a "tank to the name" and create a little achieve of sorts for the members on this site. In addition to letting people see that you're a real person with a tank and not some lousy scammer. It doesn't matter how big or small the tank is, if it's a frag tank or maybe not even built yet. Let's see or hear about it! I'll start off with my tank and just add your profile after that.



Dorado
Name: Brian
Location: Placentia (north Orange County)
Date of setup: April 2021
Tank: 36"x36"x27" cube made by Crystal Dynamics, roughly 140G water volume
Sump: Trigger 34 sapphire
Return Pump: Neptune cor20
Controller: Neptune apex w/ (2) 832 energy bars
Lights: (12)-24w T5, (3)-24" orphek blue LED bars, (1) A80 Kessil LED
Water movement: (2) Tunze 6055, (1)Tunze 6095, (1) Ecotech MP40, (1) Icecap 4K gyre
Filtration: Reef Octopus 200sss Regal, filter socks, refugium with chaeto, carbon reactor every once in awhile
Dosing: Kalkwasser via Avast Marine K2 Kalk stirrer and Neptune Dos, Geo CR618 Calcium reactor w/ secondary chamber via Kamoer FX-STP dosing pump
Other additives: Phyto every few days, Microbacter once a week, acropower once a week
Food: Rod's food(original and plankton), PE mysis, PE calanus and LRS fish frenzy
Fish List: (1) powder blue tang, (1) yellow tang, (1) royal gramma, (7) lyretail anthias, (2) clownfish, (2) springeri damselfish
Coral: The top half of my reef is all acropora, while the bottom half is mostly LPS (acans, blastos, favia, euphyllia) with a few zoas and ricordia
Inverts: (1) skunk cleaner, (1) fire shrimp, (1) sea cucumber, (1) Derasa clam, (1) maxima clam, (6) conches, and a few snails and hermits that survived the purge

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Amazing tank and success! Where in North OC do you buy the Rods Food ? Thank you

 

[Ohiostreetz]

Name: Shaun
Location: SD
Date of setup: July 2023

Tank: Aqua Japan 48x24x16 / 36x24x16 / and 18x24x12 Frag tank all plumbed to one sump

Return Pump: Jeabo return

Controller: Neptune apex

Lights: mix gen5 blues and gen4 pros
Water movement: Jebao gyre and sw-20 powerheads

Filtration: 7” filter socks and Nyos 160 protein skimmer

Dosing: Jebao 3.4 Wifi doser, Kamoer contant doser, and 2x X1 dosing pumps, avast Kalk reactor

Other additives: bionic two part, Acro power, trace elements by brightwell, neophos and nitro from brightwell

Food: Hikari mysis

Fish List: yellow tang, (2) scopas tangs (3) clownfish, sixline wrasse, 8 Pavo damsels, solar wrasse, orange stripe wrasse, leopard wrasse

Coral: SPS dominate reef with some Goni and plate corals and a few acans and chalices.
Inverts: handful of hermits, emerald crabs, banded trocus snails, and a few cleaner shrimps

 

[nicodim55]

Nicodim55
Name: Nico
Location: North Hills
Tank: 150G Advanced Acrylic
Sump: 65G Advanced Acrylic
Dual Return Pump: Mag Drive 1800/ Rio 3100
Lights: 3 x Ocean Revive T247, 1 Orphek OR3 120
Water movement: 1 x Jebao SCP120, CP25, RW8 and 2 old school Koralia
Filtration: Aquamaxx AM350 skimmer with dual Sicce pumps
Dosing: Seachem Reef Plus, Reef Carbonate
Other additives: Vodka/Vinegar/Brown sugar mix for nitrate control
Food: Hikari herbivore+Carnivore pellets
Fish List: (3) clownfish (pair of wild caught true percula, skunk clown), sixline wrasses, blue tang, naso tang, powder brown tang, coral beauty, lemon peel angel, 3 Fiji damsels, bangaii cardinal, mono, ribbon eel, engineer goby
Coral: Mixed reef; acros on top, hammer, torch, zoas, shrooms, goni

First pic 11/21/21 when it crashed, 2nd pic 7/23/23. Tank has been running since 2008.

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[DylanCameron]

Dropping a link to my welcome mat post because I’m lazy, lol:

http://www.socalireefs.com/index.php?threads/from-new-england-to-los-angeles.111458/

Today is my last day in the Northeast, tomorrow I’m flying out to CA and my lease starts Aug 1 in the 90007, so expect a build thread from me soon!

 

[Dorado]

Amazing tank and success! Where in North OC do you buy the Rods Food ? Thank you

I typically buy mine in bulk for the whole year online to save on the shipping cost, but I have seen it at reef lounge in Anaheim and Ali at Amazing Reefs carries it as well