15 month SPS Dominate tank

Hi all, thought this would be a good place to introduce myself and my tank. I live in Bozeman Montana and as you may imagine we don't have much for reefing, but we do have a small shop that was a little bit helpful, but much that I learned came from sites like reef central. However, I have decided to look into other forums as a feel RC is just to big. Any way the following is a brief overview of my tank as well as some pics.

I never owned fish until about 15 months ago when I decided to take up this wonderful hobby. I purchased a 90 gallon tank that I built in to my entertainment center. My set up is as follows:

90 Gallon tank - 15 months old
30 gallon sump with refugium
2 MP40's
JSK3 skimmer
DIY LED with a total of 72 3 watt cree LEDS (royal blue, cool white, cyan, blue)
BRS Dosing pumps with bulk BRS calc/alk/mag
SG 1.025
T = 78
NO3 = undetectable
PO4 = undetectable
Alk = 8.4
Ca = 450
Mg = 1350

Fish list:
Yellow tang
sailfin tang
clarkii clown
scarlett hawkfish
two bengaii cardinals
Coral beauty angel
neon dottyback
slendid dottyback

Corals:
Hammer
frogspawn
many SPS all started from 1" frags

Inverts:
spiny urchin
RBTA (will never put one of these in an SPS tank again
crabs/snails
Conch

 

Welcome to 3reef! This is a great forum with lots of good people.

Your tank is looking great for only being 15 months into it. Congrats!

 

Great looking tank!

 

Welcome to 3reef.

Love the tank, it's beautiful.

 

I had to get the mop out to clean up my drool.

 

Thanks everyone. I feel I have gotten really lucky with this tank. I spent some coin up front to get good equipment, but also took more of a minimalist approach to it. I feel like we all get caught up in all the new gadgets and chemicals that we need to add to make our tanks good. I only dose calcium and carb through BRS pumps. I do monthly 10-15% water changes, and thats about it. It has become a very maintainance free tank. Have an auto top off so that makes things easy. Other than that, my biological filtration takes care of the rest.

Thanks again for the warm welcomes and positive feedback.

 

I must say that you are doing very nicely. I like just about everything you have done. Decent growth and good colors, and I love that you did the DIY lighting.

Welcome to 3Reef.

 

Hello and welcome to the 3reef fam. The tank looks amazing.

 

Looks like a great start! Congrads on a nice tank

 

Nice tank