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That's all for now. I'm getting off topic. LOL

IMO the fish make the reef. A tank with tons of coral and few fish is boring. I know I'm a bit overboard on the fish side of things, but I love the movement and "life" that fish bring to the tank. My equipment enables me to experience both worlds. I keep backups to most of the essential equipment for the "just in case" incidents, like a spare dart pump, backup batteries, big 6700w generator. I also have alarms on my floor for those dreaded floods everyone enjoys. I figure I have close to 20,000 dollars worth of fish. Crazy huh.

Some pics of them.

No problem Jim.
Under my 225g tank I have a 70g sump which has a refugium section, live rock section, and a section for a filter sock and also houses my fluidized phosphate reactor. The larger section also has my auto top off and probes.
On the other half of my cabinet I have 2 reeflo dart pumps. One for a return and one on a closed loop. Also a Deltec AP702 recirculating skimmer, Deltec PF 601S calcium reactor and a Koralin S1502 Biodenitrator.
My tank has a 2 inch return manifold which supplies all my equipment to use the gravity fed water controlled seperately by ball valves ,so taking them offline is very simple.
I bought this tank used, off of RC over 5 years ago from Scott Fellman. I had seen it before and loved the way it was set up, and the equipment he had. Once he put it up for sale it was just a matter of talking the wife into it, and off to LA we went. I have upgraded many things and added different equipment. But the sump area was was a main selling point to me.
The Deltec skimmer is a monster. It allows me to have all the fish I have and still grow acros like weeds.
The calcium reactor is also huge and I never have to worry about not haveing enough calcium/alk in my tank.
I also had a huge Kalk reactor built , that all of my RODI water runs through before entering the tank. This stabilizes the ph of my tank and always keeps it on a constant 8.2-8.3. I don't run a heater or chiller as my tank is in my basement and stays nice and cool year round.
Also, in my tank I run 2 Vortech MP40's to give my circulation a boost to over 12,000 gallons an hour. All controlled by a Aquacontroller III.

5 yrs ago.


Today.


Over 40+ fish and unknown how many coral.

Wow Brad! Looks great! Also looks very well planned out to allow for routine maintenance. Would you mind giving a relative newbie a short narrative of what components you are running... for what purposes and etc.?

Looks good Brad! A lot cleaner than mine and I don't have as Lucy stuff. Mine will get the Fall cleaning when I move it in a few days.

Egad! Sorry Brad.

Marc, here is the website and date I was telling you about.

http://mountainwestreeffest.com/

Gary?????????????
You mean Brad. LOL

That looks fantastic Gary. So clean under your tank. Thumbs up! Here's the link for the FTS picture thread for September, as requested: http://www.reefaddicts.com/entry.php...-for-September

Beautiful fish Brad! I love the assortment of different fish in your tank.

I added a filemented flasher a couple of weeks ago and have a Royal flasher coming thursday.

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I added a filemented flasher wrasse a couple of weeks ago and have a Royal flasher coming in the next couple days.

Don't mind at all. It's a 72" Maristar light fixture with 3 250w DE metal halides using Phoenix 14k bulbs.
4 39w T-5's using 50/50 geissman bulbs.

what's your lighting if you don't mind me asking, color and wattage?

It is 225gallons. wirh a 70 gallon sump.

Very nice tank! How many gallons is it?

Having one in my tank, I'm quite fond of a leopard wrasse. And I've always wanted a Majestic Angel! Navarchus? Something like that.... Beautiful tank you have there!

Yes it is a hammer. Started 4 years ago with 7 heads, now, I have no idea how many but it's the size of a beachball. It's huge in person.

Holy Cow!

I like both so grab a little of both, maybe even a butterfly hot tank and may I ask is that a massive branching hammer taking up the right side of your tank?