My 125g Reef

This reef has been set up for 3 months so it is fairly new, so it is still going thru diatoms...it is 2 older tanks that I had combined a 46 bow and a 75g. I got tired of having 4 tanks, so I have cut down to just this and my AP24 most of the fish have been with me for 3 years.
I use Natural sea water collected at the Boynton Beach inlet.
10g water changes every week

Equipment:
125g RR
60 lbs Natures Ocean black reef sand
150 lbs live rock
30g long sump w/15lbs LR
ASM G2 skimmer
200w Jager heater
2x Koralia 3
Mag 12 return pump
18" T5 for refugium

72" 6x 80w Catalina T5HO fixture
bulbs are:
blue +
blue +
aquablue special
fiji purple
blue +
blue +

Livestock:
2x false percs...one jumped into the overflow and got caught by the filter sock
1x large Maroon clown
1x medium size Hippo tang
1x medium size yellow tang
1x medium size blue jaw trigger
1x royal gramma- just added
1x scissor tail goby- just added
1x yellow clown goby
1x yellow watchman goby
1x chromis
1x mandarin dragonet
1x leopard wrasse
1x solar wrasse
1x bi color angel
1x midas blenny
1x yellow tail damsel
1x cleaner shrimp
lots of blue leg hermits
4x LG mexican Turbos
trochus snails
astrea snails

here it is
























a video
YouTube - 125g reef

Thanks for looking!

 

Thats a lot of fish for such a new tank and some of those get quite large. Hows your pod population that dragonet needs a ton of them.

 

Nice looking tank

 

nice tank hope my 125 comes out this good did u drill ur tank ? or did it come reef ready

 

Technically it's not new it is 2 reefs that I had running combined into this tank 3 months ago, I am def going through a soft cycle tho...most fish are small except for the 2 tangs and trigger, they are medium size right now
The mandarin is trained to eat frozen, but there are alot of pods in the fuge

Thanks!!

The tank was reef ready when I bought it, I believe the bottom is tempered in case you drill yours

 

3 days of skim

 

How well does your power heads do?

Cause I know that you have a good return pump

I was goin to ask about your skimmer but I see that it does a great job

 

Very nice looking tank! Does your trigger leave your corals alone?

 

Yes the skimmer is doing a great job and it's not modded ;D The K3's are doing a good job, I almost went with the K4's instead but I don't have alot of SPS...I just started getting a few easy starter SPS frags

The trigger was a great addition and I do not regret it! the blue jaw is one of the reef safe triggers and has left all of my inverts alone and has not touched any corals...he looks kinda skinny in that pic because it was his 2nd day in the tank, he has since fattened up and he eats like a pig lol

 

Thats a very nice looking set up , with some really great looking corals in there, got2envy

Steve