Our NEW 82g with 41g sump Thread. Very excited

[Rocklgnd2b]

We sacrificed a lucrative christmas(well maybe an exaggeration) and decided to pull the trigger on this new(to us) 2 year old 82 gallon custom Lee Mar tank starfire glass, custom solid wood stand, and 41 gallon acrylic sump. The tank is 36"x 24"x 22" and is the biggest we felt comfortable putting in our small one bedroom second story apartment.
Being an existing tank, it came with 100lbs of live sand and not sure the lbs of the rock but a generous amount of all Tonga rock fully encrusted with coralline algae. Livestock included 5 fish: 2 assorted adult clowns, solar fairy wrasse, Lyretail anthia, and blue chromis.
Corals included a 8"x 6" colony of blue sympodium, 3 large colonies of grandis palys, large colony of joker palys, and some other unknowns, orange rodactis, an orange plating montipora( 6" circle that needed some rescuing), 4 nice acan colonies, large cynarina and trachyphyllia, and a large cyphastrea colony. Cleanup crew included:
2 conch snails, 5 large turbos, a large hermit, and a large fire shrimp.



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[Rocklgnd2b]

Dry goods included:
-BM Nac 7 skimmer
-Reef Keeper Lite plus
-BM Dosing Pump
-JBJ Arctica Titanium 1/5hp chiller
-Hamilton 250w Metal halide/4 T5/ led fixture
-Water General RD 150 RODI unit
And so much more that I may list later.


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[Rocklgnd2b]

I'll try to get better pics soon.

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[wickedfish]

Welcome!

No ammonia spike from the move over? Might wanna monitor that. Looks like you have good equipment for that tank. Lighting might need an upgrade. Go to a local reef club and borrow a par meter. The Hamilton lights sometimes suffer from being power hogs and not par givers.

For instance I had a fixture with 2x250 watt single ended mh with 4 t5 54 watters and I was getting 118-132 par. That's over 700 watts of consumption for a crap par response.

My ati fixture does 480 watts of consumption with over 320 par anywhere I have coral.

 

[Rocklgnd2b]

I'm probably going to either sell it and get another radion and mount 2 radions over the tank, or someone suggested I remove the MH part of the fixture and put my one radion in there along with the 4 T5's. So not sure which route yet.
As far as ammonia there hasn't been a huge spike but am getting brown diatom bloom at the moment. I have a 29g biocube stuffed full with lots of the 82g's livestock and a friend is housing the fish until everything mellows out.


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[lowbudget]

congrats nice looking setup.