DMT 's 150 gallon Marineland Starfire Deep Dimesion Tank !!!

[tdinh6]

Hi, My name is Thang. I have been in this hobby more than five years. After my 210 gallon SPS dominant tank crashed on July 2012.
The reason that cause it crashed was very stupid. My air-conditioner was broken right at the time I traveled back to Vietnam. The tempt had go up very high. The tank sit right the window and summer was very hot. I lost almost every sps. I was so sad and about to quit this hobby. But thanks all help from my friends and their motivation, I started my new tank in the basement. It is good tempt down here and I can build a fish room down here.
Here is the spec of my tank:

Display tank:

• 36"x36"x27" Marineland 150 gallon Starfire deep dimension reef ready

Stand & Canopy:

• Monterey Aquarium Stand and Canopy.

Sump:

• 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank
• With 4 chambers: Drain/ skimmer section, Cryptic Zone with Live Rock, Refugium, and Return
• Deep sand bed ( around 6 inches) in all chambers.

Equipment :
Skimmer:

• Bubble King Mini 200 - For tank from 135 to 200 gallons

Lighting:

• 4x Reef Apollo LED fixtures
• 2x 36" 39W T5 with purple fiji bulbs
• Install in canopy
• 8" over the water

Flow:

• 3x MP40w es
• With battery backup

Controller:
+ Apex Full model with all modules and moonlight.


GEO Calcium Reactor 618 x2
Two little fishes Kalk stirrer
JBJ ATO
BRS dosing pump x2
Sicce Syncra Water Pump Model 5.0 1,321 GPH
Coral Vue fan x2


Live Stock:Substrate:

• 1" Caribsea Arag- Live in maintank
• 6" Caribsea Arag-Live in Sump

Fish:

• Black Percula clownfish
• Melarius wrasse
• Chromis
• Blue tang hippo
• Yellow tang
• Purple tang
• Orange shoulder tang
• Powerder Blue tang

Inverts:

• Peppermint shrimp
• Cleaner shrimp
• blue legged hermit crabs
• Small emerald crab
• Squamosa clam (~7")
• Feather duster
• Bunch of cleaner crews.

Corals
LPS

• Neon Torch
• Neon frogspawn
• High-end Chalices
• Raibow Acans
• Dragon eye and Neon green facia
• Rainbow Brain coral

SPS

• YZ Reef Lavender stag
  Garf Bonsi
  Steve Ellas stag
  ATL Shades of Fall
  DFS Pink Cadillac
  German blue Digi
  Midwest Coral Farm Strawberry short cake
  ATL Red with Blue Tip Mille
  ATL Red Tri color Mille
  Chips Acro
  Red Planet
  Purple Passion
  Oregon Tort
  YZ reef Purple Stylo w. neon green polyps
  World Wide Coral Berry something Green body with purple polyps
  Tyree tri Color
  ATL Ultimate Stag
  Pink Lemonade
  ATL Vanuatu Lemonade
  Dark Green Mille
  Dark purple w bright yellow polyp Turbinaria (favorite Piece)
  Figi Blue Tri color Acro
  Tyree Tri Color
  Pink Stylo
  Rainbow Monti
  ID Grape Cap
  Metero Shower
  Pink Hammer
• Red Dragon
• Strawberry Shorkcake
• Hawlkin enchinata
• and many more….

Softies

• Pink zumas

 

[tdinh6]

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[tdinh6]

 

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My last tank before crashed

 

[tdinh6]

Here is the tank when i Just got it

 

[tdinh6]

Here is the sump. It is 100 gallon Rubbermaid stock tank.
Custom cut black acrylic to fit the stock tank.
The sump divided to 4 chambers: Drain/Skimmer ( right), refugium, Cryptic zone (middle), return (left)

 

[tdinh6]

Cutting wall to connect the sump and display tank

 

[tdinh6]

Now the tank and the sump connected

 

[rajkovich207]

beautiful tanks! such a shame mid west coral farms closed, was my favorite lfs and I wish every day it hadn't closed. I got lucky and was able to make it their last day open and made out with some awesome stuff at a killer price. I think I got 7-8 drags for $25! looking forward to watching another local crest an amazing display! hopefully it's done on time for maci this year!

 

[tdinh6]

Canopy build with 4 x Apollo LED fixture and 2 x T5 with purple fiji

 

[lakeviewink]

Awesome tank! Thank you for showing your light layout in the canopy. I'm about to get the same exact tank, stand and canopy. I wasn't sure how to mount my LEDs and T5's. now I have some ideas!
I have 2 MP40wes, do you like puting them on the same side or should I use opposites like in my current 120g? What is your opinion?

I love the dimentions of this tank! Awesome sump idea too.

 

[tdinh6]

Awesome tank! Thank you for showing your light layout in the canopy. I'm about to get the same exact tank, stand and canopy. I wasn't sure how to mount my LEDs and T5's. now I have some ideas!
I have 2 MP40wes, do you like puting them on the same side or should I use opposites like in my current 120g? What is your opinion?

I love the dimentions of this tank! Awesome sump idea too.

I will add 2 more t5 ( will use 2x ATI true actinic ) on the side. I will post pic tomorrow.
I think with 2 MP40wes are fine for this tank. But i want to have 3 because of my aquascape. I used 4 MP40 and 2 tunze for my 210 gallon .
Also depend on what coral u keep. My tank is sps dominance. So i want a lot of flow.

 

[tdinh6]

Light over my tank

 

[tdinh6]

My aquascape

 

[tdinh6]

Will post a lot of pics of my fish lab tomorrow

 

[lakeviewink]

Hi Thang, are you dimming your LEDs with the apex? If so, did you get a PVM converter or are your lights analog (0-10v)?
I'm curious because my LEDs are very similar but I wonder how to dim them with my RKE. I know I need a ALC module,but will I need to change out the drivers or I've seen a converter that a led retailer sells?

 

[tdinh6]

Hi Thang, are you dimming your LEDs with the apex? If so, did you get a PVM converter or are your lights analog (0-10v)?
I'm curious because my LEDs are very similar but I wonder how to dim them with my RKE. I know I need a ALC module,but will I need to change out the drivers or I've seen a converter that a led retailer sells?

My LED fixtures are non-dimmable fixture. I bought it about yr ago. I just xfer it to my new tank. U can check RKE for dimming light.

 

[lakeviewink]

My LED fixtures are non-dimmable fixture. I bought it about yr ago. I just xfer it to my new tank. U can check RKE for dimming light.

Ok thanks

 

[revhtree]

Looking great!

 

[ReefPops]

Thang it's look great. Love all the pics and can't wait to see more.