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Location: Pleasant Lake, Michigan
Main Tank: Tenecor 96x24x30 tall 300g acrylic. Tank set up in March 2005-upgraded from 7yr old 180 gallon. Approx 450lb Live rock, sandbed
Sump/Refuge: 120g glass approximately 80g dedicated to refuge/grow out area, with Live rock, Southdown DSB, chaeto
Corals and Invertebrates:
2 Elegance corals
Fox Coral
Branching Bubble
red Cynarina
Green open Brain
Blastomussa Merletti
Montipora digitata, caps, and encrusting
Pocillopora
Tri color acro
Millepora
Staghorn
2 oxypora
4 types of Caulastrea
turbinaria Reniformis
Pavona
Green and brown button polyps
Approx. 30 varieties zoanthids
Palythoa Grandis
Star polyps
Anthelia
Clove polyps
Yellow Polyps
Yellow Finger leather
Misc pin leather
Yellow Toadstool leather
Colt
Neon Green Nepthea
Orange, Green and Blue Ricordia
Various Ricordia Yuma's
10 various types/colors shrooms
3 varieties photosynthic gorgonians
5 Mini Carpet anemones
Haddoni Carpet anemone
Flower anemone
Sand anemone
Crocea Clam
2 Diadema urchins
3 Black Brittlestars
1 Bloodshrimp
Several 1-2" Feather dusters
Fish:
Clarki Clown
Powder Blue Tang
Yellow Tang
Hippo Tang
Blue sided Fairy Wrasse
Leopard Wrasse
Pair of Lyretail Anthias
2 Blue/green Chromis
Green Mandarin
Pink spotted shrimp goby
Lawnmower Blenny
3 adult and 1 juvi Bangaii Cardinals in main tank and approx 20 Juvi Cardinals in refuge
Mated pair of Multibanded Pipefish in Refuge
1 unidentified dwarf type moray eel, hitchhiker-approx 1/2" diameter x ? long
Feeding: Nori 1 sheet 5-6 times a week, Mysis, Cyclop-eeze, home made mix daily. Coral Frenzy 2-3 times a week.
Supplements: Calcium Reactor, Limewater for all top-off, Kent Essential Elements, Kent Magnesium
Water changes: 100g approximately every 4 to 6 weeks
Tank parameters:ammonia, nitrite, nitrate undetectable, Calcium 410, Alk 9dkh, pH 7.9-8.3, Orp 375, Temp 80-82
Equipment:
300g tenecor acrylic tank
Diy Oak stand and Canopy
120g glass sump/Refuge located in basement.
Ebay Ozone w/Milwaukee controller
ReefTek 6x18" Calcium Reactor w/Milwaukee Controller
MTC HSA1000 beckett skimmer with Little Giant MD5 Pump
600w heaters on a Ranco Temperature Controller, Phosban reactor
Tsunami Auto-topoff with 30g trash can reservoir
30g trashcan RO/DI storage
Flow: 2- Gen-x PCX 40 return pumps, Tunze Wavebox. Minijet 404 in frag grow out area.
Lighting:
Main tank- 3-250w SE Metal Halides, Hamilton 14k all run on Magnetic tar ballasts with spider reflectors, 2-72" URI Super actinic VHO run on tar ballast, 3 Eco Plus Led Moonlights
Refuge- 2x54w GE 6500k T5 1x54w Giesemann Pure actinic
