My new 60x30x30 tank

And this is how it was all started lol

 

Stock and equipment

Main tank 60x30x30
sump 36x18x18

Fish

4 common clowns
1 Percula clown ( in the sump )
1 algae blenny
1 bi blenny
1 coral beauty
1 mandering
1 jawfish
1 yellow tang
1 regal tang
1 bi angel
1 blue chromis
1 cleaner wrasse
1 Royal gramma
3 black damsels
3 yellow tail damsels
1 firefish
1 lipstick tang
1 emperor angel

Corals

2 x finger leathers
1 x toadstool leather
1 x tree leather
20 + green mushrooms
20 + blue mushrooms
brown zoas
green zoas
purple acro
3 x bubble anemone
green maze coral
galaxia coral
daisy coral
montipora confusa
acro pora

Inverts

1 blood shrimp
1 peppermint shrimp
3 brittle stars
20 cerith snails
5 turbo snails
5 blue legged hermit crabs
1 brown hermit crab
1 red hermit crab
20 small hermits



Equipment

78kg live rock mixed
marine sources 120 skimmer
phosphate reactor
huge nitrite reactor
6500lph return pump
polario 22000lph powerhead
orp and ph monitor
ozone unit
55w uv
35w sad bulb for cheato
8 x 54w t5 unit for now led build in progress
use seachem reef salt and balling lite

params
calcium 500, magnesium 1400, alk 12,0
phos 0.02, nitrite 0 nitrate 0 ammonia 0, temp 25.0, sg 1026


Thank you for looking been in the hobby now for over 5 years and love every minute

 

Wow, this is an awesome tank! How long has this been since you started the build?
Your wife seems to be happy with the reef as well. haha.

 

It cost me an holiday for the family abroad for the upgrade lol

Got the tank siliconed together middle of November, Had the tank wet first week of December all stock was transferred around 14th Dec

 

Here a taster of my new led diy build will upload tomorrow if i get chance late here now


Using a 50w led 36 volt at 1700ma 10,000kelvin















This is my controller i am building to dim the leds















There you go a little taster still not finished the project yet going to use 6 x 50w whites and 12 x 20w blue leds thinking of uv for night leds as well

 

Very,very beautiful tank, do you have 3 foot thick concrete floors in your house, LOL, that's a 238 gallon tank, and would be 2380 lb's, a tank with those dimensions would put a lot of weight in a concentrated area, it's not even up against the wall, did you brace it from the basement?

 

Around five years ago this happened and its how it all started





Then this happened and i nearly gave up, i was scrubbing the live rock every week for 2 months









I kept on at it 7 months later it blossomed in to this

 

Wow all that in 1h?

 

Lucky we have concrete floors lol, If we ever have to move the tanks staying as we cant get it out unless we take it all apart again

If only i had that much pass in to my bank in that hour lol

 

Three years after that rio 180 tank this happened, Oh first i caught crabs lol



Then this happened