Fadi's Reef 180 Gallons sps dominated Tank

fabutahoun · Oct 5, 2016

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Hello everyone, I am Fadi a Jordanian Reefer lives in Riyadh - Saudi Arabia.

Its been almost 6 years last time I have kept a reef aquarium, the previous one was 50 gallon with lps and softies.

I am back with a bigger tank, the tank arrived at June the 3rd 2016 and now it is 4 months Old. 180 gallon tank with net total water volume of 200 in both tank and sump minus rocks and sand

fabutahoun · Oct 5, 2016

Tank: 180 Gallons
Custom Made by Blue Life KSA, 72" X 24" X 24"
3 sides Starphire Tempered glass 1/2" brace bottom and top
Center 24" external Overflow with BeanAnimal Overflow system all Plumbings are 1.5" inches

Sump: 60 Gallons
Custom Made by Blue Life KSA, 40"L X 20"W X 18"H

Live rock I had around 50 pounds from the old tank that were dried, bleached, acid bathed and stored for years. The rest of rock around 100 pounds where collected from the red sea.

fabutahoun · Oct 5, 2016

Return Pump: Jebao DC - 12000, all 1.5" plumping with manifold to feed media reactors. the return is reduced then to 3/4" with LOC-LINE fittings.

Skimmer: Super Reef Octopus SRO 3000 In-Sump Protein Skimmer
Light: 3 Radion XR30w pro and 1 XR15 pro.

Reef Octopus Calcium Reactor with Bubble magus add on secondary chamber
Flow: 2X APEX WAV and Gyre XF250

Jebao Programmable Auto Dosing Pump DP-4, currently I Dose 3 ml/hour of Randy 2 part recipe #1. using Seachem Advantage Calcium and baked Arm & Hammer baking soda

2 X TLF Phosban Reactor, one filled with aquamaxx rox carbon. and the other one with aquamaxx GFO.

Seachem Matrix in a media reactor for extra filtration.

APEX Controller
All Equipment are connected to Classic Apex Controller with Temperature, PH and ORP Probes

APEX ATK
APEX AFS
APEX WMX to control Radions via Apex

Brightwell Microbacter7 for 10 days to start and boost biological filtration.

fabutahoun · Oct 5, 2016

Current Fish List

Emperor Angelfish(Pomacanthus imperator)

Purple Masked Angelfish (Paracentropyge venusta)

Coral Beauty Angelfish(Centropyge bispinosa)

Rusty Angelfish(Centropyge ferrugata)

Watanabei Angelfish(Genicanthus watanabei)

Swallowtail Angelfish (Genicanthus melanospilos)

Masked Swallowtail Angelfish(Genicanthus semifasciatus).

( Yah I know I have many angels there )

2 X Dispar Anthias (Pseudanthias dispar)

2 X Black Ice Ocellaris Clownfish, (Amphiprion ocellaris )
Platinum Percula Clownfish, (Amphiprion percula)

Diamond Watchman Goby (Valenciennea puellaris)

Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)

Purple Tang (Zebrasoma xanthurum)

Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flavescens)

Blonde Naso Tang (Naso elegans)

2 X Melanurus Wrasse (Halichoeres melanurus)

Green Mandarin(Synchiropus splendidus)

Rose band Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus roseafascia)

Pintail Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus lanceolatus)

Crescent Tail Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus lunatus)

Pylei fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus Pylei)

Ornate leopard wrasse (Macropharyngodon ornate)

Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse(Cirrhilabrus lubbocki)

Orange-Back Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus aurantidorsalis)

Pink Margin Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubrimarginatus)

Blotched Anthias(Odontanthias borbonius)

Six Line Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia)

Scarlet Pin Stripe Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus evanidus)

maroun.c · Oct 5, 2016

Welcome to R2r Fadi,
Always good to see new tanks from the middle east.
Tank is looking great, love the red plumbing.
How quiet is taht overflow? I would have raised the elbows a bit higher to minimize noise and water splashing.
That picture with your kid giving you the thumbs up on Salinity is just Precious.
Lookign forward to vist Saudi and checkout your tank in person

ksed · Oct 5, 2016

Looking great Fadi

Kevin

Karmann · Oct 5, 2016

Looking great, nice work.

revhtree · Oct 5, 2016

Well done and welcome to R2R!

fabutahoun · Oct 5, 2016

Corals Sps Dominated Tank with few softies and LPS:
SPS:

Strawberry Shortcake Acro

Rainbow Shortcake Acro

Pink Lemonade Acro

Acropora loripes

Red Dragon Acro

Twilight Dragon Acro

Tri Color Bonsai Acro

Acropora valida

Acropora gomezi

Sanjay Milka Stylo

Acropora tenuis

ORA Micronesian Raspberry Acropora
(Acropora granulosa)

ORA
Micronesian Purple and Green Acro

ORA Red Planet

ORA Green
birds-nest

Acropora loripes

Myagi Tort

Ice Fire Echinata

Green Monti
Red Monti

Montipora Setosa

Montipora Undata

The Grinch Reverse Sunset Monti

Forest Fire Digitata

Bubble Gum Digitata

Blue Matrix Acro

Green pocillopora

WWC Slimeball Anacropora

Fiji Yellow Tip Acro

Bright Green Stag

LPS:

Purple Goniopora

Green Goniopora

Pink Goniopora

Yellow Goniopora

Metallic Green Purple tip Goniopora

Green Frogspawn Coral (Euphyllia divisa)

3 Blastomussa wellsi

Soft Corals:

Green Bounce Mushroom

Purple Finger Leather Coral

ORA Micronesian Purple and Green Yuma Ricordea (Ricordea yuma)

Inverts

4 Red Sea Clams

3 Bubble tip Anemones

Red Sea Marbled Linckia Star

2 X Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)

2 X Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius)

Banded Boxer Shrimp (Stenopus hispidus)

Infinite Number of Snails that keep breeding :

Astraea Turbo Snail (Astraea tecta)

Banded Trochus Snail (Trochus sp.)

Nassarius Snail (Nassarius distortus)

Bumble Bee Snail (Engina sp.)

Nerite Snail (Nerita sp.)

Turban Snail (Tectus fenestratus)

fabutahoun · Oct 5, 2016

Thanks Guys for your warm welcome and kind words.

maroun.c said:
Welcome to R2r Fadi,
Always good to see new tanks from the middle east.
Tank is looking great, love the red plumbing.
How quiet is taht overflow? I would have raised the elbows a bit higher to minimize noise and water splashing.
That picture with your kid giving you the thumbs up on Salinity is just Precious.
Lookign forward to vist Saudi and checkout your tank in person

The system is somehow quit, the sound from the overflow is not noticeable specially when the sound of the wave and skimmer is louder than it. the only noise is from system startup until it purge all air out.