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Hello All! My name is Dion Richins. I'm in Farmington Utah. I found this site through a web referral from Jake. (TechETS) These are my tanks as of today. They seam to change on a continuous bases Ive been reefing for about 8 years. I am in the presidency of the WMAS (www.utahreefs.com) bout 3 years now. I am a furniture builder and as Jake said in his blog we build some kick *** Aquarium Furniture. You can see examples at www.richinscarpentry.com Look under Aquarium furniture. I also have been banned ...

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This is my second post. My first was about lighting. My current set up is a 55g fish only tank right now(due to lack of necessary lighting), and I have a CPR hang on the back refugium/skimmer which is 4.7gallons. Nitrates are <1ppm with this set up and I am pretty happy. As far as the lighting goes, I think I am gonna go with T5's. My specific question is will an 8x54watt fixture be too much for my tank? I just want to be able to keep sps and lps. I will try to post pics soon.

This is a quick post to get myself and my tank out into the community. I am thrilled to have access to a community or a “support group” where others will understand my passion / borderline obsession with my fishy friends and their watery home.

Here are some quick stats:

90 Gallon Reef Tank April of 2006 to present:

1 x 90 Gallon All Glass Aquarium Generic

1 x Custom Maple and Walnut Stand Built by yours truly

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The Plan
So in the fight against ConEd and their .33 cents per kilowatt policy, I decided to stop using my sump as the main source of display tank flow and remove the Mag9 that was in there.

The Victory
The Mag is listed as using 93 watts of power...welllll, WRONG, more like 124 watts. I have been using a device made by Ryobi, purchased at Home Depot, and it does the same job of the Kill-A-Watt device at half the cost. I hope that half the cost don't mean crappy readings. ...

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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