133 gal reef setup by nemosworld.

Thought i had a pick of the whole tank with corals. but i don't. here is one without.


sump area:



corals:
2 head hammer
3 head frogspawn, 3 stalk xenia, rock full with brown polys,star polyps
frag of favia, 2 green mushrooms, one toadstool, gsp, green bali slimer, one frag digi, green monticap,green with orange tip monti cap, large birdsnest, 3 diff candycanes,one pink ric and one orange ric, one large colt coral (wife favorite)

inverts:
one cleaner shrimp, one peppermint shrimp, 3 nausarius snails, 1 mexican turbo snail. planning on adding more nausarius and one tiger snail.

Fish:
as of now, 3 green chromis
1 blue hippo juvi
2 false percs
1 formossa wrasse(i know he is not reef safe, but he is not interested in the shrimps right now, monitoring)
1 engineer goby

Lighting:
4 48inch t12 vho's on 2 workhorse 7 ballast.

Flow
2 koralia 4's, only using one, getting good flow from my returns
using one to keep the substrate clean. going to put them on timers to alternate flow later on. (on and off every other hr)

 

how old is the tank?

 

it's been up for 2weeks, upgraded from 55gals.
bought the tank setup for $500
came with pumps sump, skimmer( which i am not using, too loud, venturi style)
lights stand and canopy. owner was setting it up and made some mistakes and decided to sell it, did not tell of the mistakes he made though.
return holes are too low below water surface, causing back flow during power outage. fixed! large overflow box not setup, had to do it myself, and the output was not setup he drilled the holes in the back of the tank instead of the bottom. had to do all plumbing myself with a friends help. added durso standpipes and siliconed the overflow box.
had to offset it because there is a large glass center brace that sits over it.

see all the pictures from the build here:
My 133 gal tank setup, begining to end.

 

i looks great. mabey a little clean like not fully cycled. my bulkheads are the same way but i put an adapter on the inside i can turn to adjust water level. doesn't spill much water at all after power outage. does it look like this?

 

Before mod:


After mod:

 

The sump has a DSB with the sand from my 55 gal.

 

nemosworld
it looks beautifully clean and bright - nice looking set up

Steve

 

Thanks!

 

yeah the colors are amazing.

 

that's my goal, to have a colorful reef going and easy to maintain. I want some more sps, but this new tank is not really ready for it, plus the wife hates sps, she loves to see how the LPS moves with the current in the tank. Later on i am going to pickup some sponges.
Love all the colors of them. also getting a blue linkia starfish, wife wants a starfish bad.