Me z's 125g mixed reef

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I havnt done much in the way of sharing my tank on here so thought I would start a thread.
My main display is 72"x18"x24" single corner overflow. Two tanks below. One 30g fuge and one 20g sump for skimmers, reactors, probes, etc...

Equipment list: RKL mainly used for pumps and skimmers as well as temp and ph. Vertex in100 skimmer with a bubble blaster 2000 mod. Eshopps cone skimmer 120. Korallin calcium reactor, BRS dual reactor for GFO and Carbon, Zeovit reactor vertex. Three MP40's for flow set to reef crest mode two synced for master and slave one ran independant. Mag 12 (maybe bigger I forget) return pump. Gravity fed ATO. Three radion xr30s

Stock, Fish: Achilles Tang, small hippo tang, Mystery Wrasse, Borbonius Anthias, Fat Head Sunburst Anthias, Royal Gramma Bass, Two Bar Gobies, Two Dragon Face Pipefish, Green Mandarin, Two anthias(not sure what type).

Inverts: Peacock Mantis Shrimp(in the fuge!), Big Brittle star, Big Serpent Star, Porcelain Crab, Two Electric Blue Hermits, Halloween Hermit, Scarlet Reef Hermits, Two Queen Conchs, Two Fighting Conchs, Spiny Star Astrea Snails, Hard Tube Cocoa Worm, Rose BTA, Harlequin Shrimp, and several different snails.

Acros- Red Dragon, Red Robin, Oregon Tort, Cali Tort, Purple Unknown, Valida, Pearl Berry, Blueberry Special, ASD Rainbow Milli, Christmas Milli, German Blue Polyp, Larry Jackson Purple Tip, Hawkins Echinata, Ice Fire Echinata, Rainbow Shortcake, Tinkerbell, and a few named ones I know I am missing and some no names.

Monti's- Red Scrolling Capricornis, Bretts Purple Rim, L.A. Laker, Superman, Mystic Monti, Sunset, Reverse sunset, Seasons greetings, Grinch, Pink polyp orange cap, Idaho Grape, Purple Smoke, Purple Haze, Apple Berry, Maybe one or two others.

Zoas- Space Monsters, Reverse Space Monsters, JF Bloodshots, TCN Bloodshots, ZK bloodlust, Blue Agave, Yellow Mamba, Spidermans, BamBams, Candy Apple Reds, Nuke Greens, Cherry Charms, Captain Americas, Punk Rockers, Sunflowers, Frostbites, Rastas, Purple Hornets, Red Hornets, Blue Hornets, JF Crazy Ladies, Eternal Pink, Electric Oompa Loompas, Dragon Eyes, Black and Whites, Green Sparkle Paly(think I'll name em Unicorn poop!) WOW Palys, Utter Chaos, Blondies or bbeb, Lazer lemons, armor of god, blue warriors, and a few I am probably forgeting as well as no names.

Chalices- Miami Hurricane, Bubble gum Monster, Pink Watermelon, Red watermelon, Treasure Chest, My Miami, and four or five no names

Misc- Turbinaria, Rainbow Trachy, Tahitian Black Maxima, Tear Drop Maxima, Gorgonian, Acans, Acan Echinata, micromussa, blastomusa, trumpets, hydnophora, porites, ricordia, and a few other things.

Filtration- I run filter socks occaisonally when I storm the sump. Vertex and eshopps skimmers are the workhorses of the system. recently switched from biopellets to zeo to see if I got better results and I was suprised to see how much better zeo colors things up. Feather caulerpa in the fuge, GFO and Carbon Reactors. 150GPD RO/DI Replace DI resins every ten days membrane every six months hard to keep 0 tds at my house. Lots of live rock!

Water changes-Uh ya right!? LOL But when I actually do a water change I use Kent sea salt or IO reef crystals.

Feeding- I feed a mixture of frozen and dried foods to the fish as well as cyclopeeze. I feed corals micro vert, skimmate, pellet food, mysis, cyclopeeze, frozen rotifers, etc whatever I feel they need that day.

Thats pretty much it! Sorry bout all the blue in the pics havnt figured out the white balance on my camera yet!

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nice tank. interesting you run two skimmers. how long have you had the Achilles?
 
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I run two skimmers because I found that two normal rated skimmers pull alot more skimmate than one large overrated skimmer.
 

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I run two skimmers because I found that two normal rated skimmers pull alot more skimmate than one large overrated skimmer.
fair enough. :)

glad you're able to keep the Achilles for at least a year. hope he stays with yah for a very long time. awesome tang! 1smile1
 
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He has been a fun fish. I have a thread on my local reef club page about my experience with him. He came in rough and peppered with ich. He wouldnt eat anything except brine shrimp at first so it was difficult to get him eating good foods. He eventually fought off the ich out break and hasnt had a spot since. Now he eats cyclops, mysis, ova, and most meaty foods. The only vegies he likes is fresh gracillaria(spelling?) from my fuge.
 

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Tank is looking good and congrats on keeping my most favorite fish!!
 
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Thanks for the compliments. It is a little difficult to maintain a tank here as we dont have any fish stores so everything has to be ordered in and you have to be very good at recognizing your future needs.
 
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Wish I could figure out my camera I really do have some amazing color in my tank but the pics always look washed out.
 

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Nice reef!! Awesome pics! Thanks for sharing!
 

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Your tank is looking good!! I love the anthias!!! It looks awesome. Keep the pics coming!!! :)
 

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How hard is it maintaining the pipefish? I hear there difficult in a full reef setting. Love the achilles,.....and pretty much everything else about your tank. Are water changes avoided due to the calcium reactor? and have you always had the fuge if not did it have a large impact on your reef when added?
 
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