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Since were all presenting our tanks to get to know one another, I thought I'd join in.
My tank is a standard AGA 210 built into my Laundry room wall. The overflows, returns and closed loop are all plumbed into an addition I built onto the back of the house. There, I have a 150G sump, 40 G frag tank, a 65 and 35 gallon refugium. I have mulitple reactors, controllers and everything else related to a large system.

First the tank room,

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As far as the ballast goes looking for Metal Halide and t5.... ive heard some things about workhorse ballast for t5's. Anybody have any experience with these or specs?

Another shot.

Before I begin a road to becoming a healthy reefer, here is the before picture. Which I must admit doesn't look horrible.

Ok where to start.

This is what I started with a 65g in the living room with a 30g sump, Mag 7 pump, Aqua C Remora Pro and a few Korella 3's. Nice little tank but it was extremely noisy and the saltwater container took up a lot of room. I also didn't know any better and put a Koran Angle in the tank. Man what a beautiful fish and until I put a brain coral in the tank it was a model citizen.
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