Hi trae, lights are right now only 2x 250 watt DE HQI , Aqualine Buschke 10k bulbs on Bluewave electronic ballast and Sunlight Supply Reef Opitx III reflectors (thanks for the advice tim - they are awesome!). I need to add some Actinic supplementation - actually thinking of doing some Osram blue NO bulbs. Photoperiod is currently up to about 7.5 hours a day - will eventually be about 8 for the HQIs with actinics on for 2 hours prior and after.Originally Posted by Trae
For water movement I'm using 3 Maxijet 1200's on a Wavemaster Pro. It's a 75 gallon Oceanic reef Ready draining into a 30 gallon sump that contains an Urchin skimmer, a field of mangroves and about 10lbs live rock. Return pump is a Eheim 1260 with a split return line about 1/4 of flow goes to my refugium/lagoon/anemone tank which then drains back into sump.
The refugium has a 6" deep sand bed with about 50 lbs of live rock, seagrass, caulerpa, chaetomorpha, several types of Halimeda and gracilaria. It also houses 2 black perculas, one false percula, a burgundy linckia (doign great so far!) and my breeding Bangaii's. The refugium has 2 rio 600's in there to move water around but flow is gentle overall. I also have a buble tip anemone and a malu anemone. The heteractis malu stays buried in the sand much of the time. The main tank also has a 4" deep sand bed in addition to about 80 pounds of live rock. Refugium is currently lit by 4x 96 watt VHO but am going to place a single 250 watt halide over it as soon as I can get a canopy made.
This tank came about from condensing my 1+ year old nano reef and my 8 month old 46 gallon reef into one larger one. With about 150 gallons water volume plus 2 refugiums and 2 deep sand beds and all the rock it seems very stable - I have to top off fairly often due to the large surface area but I think all the exposed water allows for better gas exhange and oxygenation! Will be setting up my JimD special kalkreactor here soon when I get an affordable dosing pump.
Thanks for the interest!
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