Left

Front

Right

Sump (crappy pic, -uv and -waterchange

Left side (black bar on right is overflow)

Front

Right

Front-Showing Light Rack

Lights were at the start of acclimation mode here. 50% @ max during the day. Ramping up to 75% over 3 weeks. 

-Queen Angel...I know (now) the tank is too small. She'll go to a friend's 210 soon enough

-A friend was making some side panels for the stand but has had some serious health problems in the family so he's been MIA. I don't need to fire him but I don't want to bother him with my "fish tank" so The stand is currently open and we are canopy-less.

-Not pictured - remote water change / top off in garage. 2nd MP40w. Skimmer upgraded from curve 7 to curve 9 to acknowledge total system volume rather then just display

-Chocolate chip star is in sump...want it?

? what are you acclimating your lights too? There is no coral.

Beautiful Angel by the way.

 well thank you! If I don't screw it up between now and reeftour than come see it 

Thanks and we love "angel" too. We started looking for a corner/bow front for the spot our 40g was in but I love this tank and we feel it fit the spot nicely. Plus it's bigger and more flexible.  

Ah, good question on the lights. Those things are bright and I didn't want to freak the kids out ;) and...these were taken right after I got the rack in place. We had been keeping the coral (including some frags from the frag fest) in my daughters BC29. I need to take some pics of the coral in the tank. I've moved things around a couple times now so I've waited but I'll post some soon.

Ahhhh. That's great. Wall mounted might work that way too and that would allow all kinds of movement during maintenance and easy to adjust as well.

Thanks!

Thank you for the encouragement! 

Not a great FTS but it's the one that's handy.

anthias wash was running full speed with a line all the way around the rock

I've wanted a good picture of the sheik and his harem. I call him the sheik and the wife calls him danny. the girls are the pink ladies. frenchy, rizzo, and sandy.

This photo bomb is provided by 'bow' our young blunt nose/rainbow wrasse

Still looking for a good shot of just the 4 of them...

Black snowflakes we picked up from The Aquarium a few weeks ago. Love these two!

pink hammer

This rim on this is more pink than shows here

still...to reopen sun polyps

sabeypets wrote:  Great looking tank. Love the black snowflakes!

Real happy with them and I didn't even get this nem to the bottom before they were interested in it.

Thanks Nick. So far so good

Thanks. I may as well submit it...done :) I'm not sure on the nem. It is mostly white with blue dots on the underside (I believe the spots place it in the Stichodactylidae family) and a yellow glow under actinic type lighting.

Almost I ran the vegas but, these lights are the Gen1 radion. In the first tank shots with the lights I don't have any coral in. To be more clear, I should have made two posts. One showing the lights. Then one talking about my light settings. I didn't put any of my frags in the display until after the lights were in place. The first pieces in were some zoas, birds nest, and an acro I don't know the name of. All from the Jan frag swap.

ORA produces Black snowflakes

Sea And Reef produces Phantoms

Each produced their own color morph, Both very similar in color.    

Ah, thanks for the info Shaun.

Thank you! We love the location and fit in the room. The TV should be jealous :)

-Frag tank to be plumbed into the display and water change. 

-Probably move the sump out to the garage while I am at it. I think this will put total system volume at a bit over 300g

So the latest...

Sump is moved out to the garage.

   -1 1/2" spa flex for drain and 1" for the return

   -New sump from EA to fit space in garage

Upgraded from gen1 radions to the Pro 

Added PM Calcium Reactor

Added Media Reactors for GFO and Carbon 

Moved ATO from regular float to a pump switched via the Apex on a breakout box.

Added Apex Leak detector

60g Frag tank added as part of total system volume

   +36x24x12"   

   +2x 250w MH with 2x 54w t5

Some more current pics under blues

Front Right Corner

More as I get around to uploading them

Some "noon day" pics

"foxy"

Couldn't get the money shot of the mouthful of eggs but a couple nights ago we found 1/4" cardinals in the sump and display

Have you noticed a difference now that you have added a reactor?

Thanks, you are welcome to come by anytime but I've got nothing going on that compares to what you have. Things are a lot more stable with the reactor. Numbers are steady and I don't have to worry about dosing anything so I love that! Though I don't have much SPS at this this so I only run the reactor/CO2 for about 5 hours a day. (2 hours in the morning and 3 in the afternoon) One of my goals is to be able to safely (over)stock pretty fishes and still maintain a clean system for corals. From the start I knew that I'd need it to be automated whenever possible given how busy our house is. The reactor definitely aides in this mission so I'm glad to have it in place.

Well thank you but, it's only the 2nd nicest one I've seen a picture of this week. 

That's not clean, it's the glow of my newness in the hobby :)

-Status of sand

-Apex modules

-added a couple links to some of the equipment's Mfg site (BUY LOCAL !:) for a few of the pieces  people  have asked me about

After a couple disappointing failures of my Blowhole 1450 pumps I replaced them with two Waveline 6000 DC pumps from The Aquarium. though max flow is rated a little then the blowholes, I haven't seen it and the pumps just don't have enough push for what I want. They are great pumps for the short time I've had them and the ability to modify the flow is awesome but just not the best fit for me. 

Good to hear! Sadly the Blowholes have been troublesome but The Aquarium has been very helpful in arranging replacements. I've heard nothing but good regarding the larger models.

Thank you! So far so good save the swap out of the main pumps.

iPhone pic with Radions set to 20K

iPhone pic with flash on

This is shortly after setting it in the tank. 

Thank for watching out for me! This pic is literally <2 minutes after moving from acclimation to the display and his mouth is one of the reasons I took the pic right as I placed him. He's looking better. I have a FT shot the next morning I can post but it's hard to tell much detail as the lights don't promote a good iphone shot and I've yet to up load any better shots that are easily uploaded to the site. 

Again, thanks

As to the reactor, right now my tank is literally empty of fish. My plan includes introducing a bio-pellet reactor this next week. They take a couple weeks to come "alive" and online so with my re-introduction of fish to the reef, the timing I hope works out well. I did study a bit and consider a sulfur denitrifier in the past but I understand a pellet reactor serves the same basic mission. Is that correct?

Was reading a bit about this. I'll watch it close and if need be I'll get it in the QT tank I have mostly ready. Thanks again for looking out.

FTS shots from today

Front

Left Side

Right Side

Some coral 

some coral browned when I pulled everything to catch all the fish as part of removing ich. Including these

They seem to be coming back now.

Some from the Frag tank:

Right half

My Bubble Tip Ranch