My 2 month old 75 gal Reef Tank

Finally made our 75 gallon into a saltwater tank. Spent a lot of time planning this one out to make it easy and a quick start-up. I started with live sand (60 lbs live, 90 lbs "dead), about 75-90 lbs of live rock, stocked the refugium with Fiji Mud. I've been dosing the tank 3 times a week with AquaVitro Fuel. Started the tank with Kent's Purple Tech, now just using Seachem AquaVitro Calcification. I've dosed my refugium with Pods 4 times. It's only been set up since December 27th, 2011.

I've got:
2 Semi-Picasso Clowns
Starry Blenny
Hector's Goby
Highfin Perchlet
Firefish
Yellow Tang
2 Banggai Cardinals
Target Mandarin

Bubble Tip Anemone
Open Brain Wellsophyllia
Green Worm Brain
Pulsing Xenia
Frogspawn
Green Star Polyp
Pink Birds Nest
Galaxea
Colt Finger

I've got a quad T-5 fixture for lighting. A CPR Aquafuge Pro large with Fiji Mud, Chaetomorpha, and Protein Skimmer (Accela pump powered) with QuietOne 4000 return pump. I've got a DIY overflow and return pvc system.

Nice tank

Thanks! I'm so obsessed with it right now.....

Looks good. Just keep the good work.

looking good.
might want to try and scape the rocks a lil different. you stacked them like it was a cichlid tank haha jk
what kind of skimmer are you running on this tank?

looks good, could use a lot more rock though. keep it up! and congrats!

Looks great!

alkomist wrote:

might want to try and scape the rocks a lil different. you stacked them like it was a cichlid tank haha jk

Old habits die hard, lol

alkomist wrote:

what kind of skimmer are you running on this tank?

The skimmer came with the aquafuge pro (by cpr) it's the one powered by the accela pump (vs the rio)

aw nice! i used to have that exact same one till i tore my 20 long reef down.:(
thing wroks pretty bada$$

in the 1st pic the water looks a lil clowdy...did you take it after a water change or somthin?

alkomist wrote:

in the 1st pic the water looks a lil clowdy...did you take it after a water change or somthin?

I took both photos with my camera phone, so they aren't the best quality photos, but my water in this tank stays cloudy looking all the time. We have 5 cats that constantly lay on my t5 fixture and I'm always pulling cat hair out of the tank. Most of the time while I am looking at my tank I can see a piece of hair float by. It drives me crazy, but the fish nor the livestock seem to mind. I'm debating buying a canister filter just for that reason, but can't quite take the plunge. I wanted to add the api nexx filter. But just for asthetics... I'm having trouble justifying

After saying I'm not going to add a canister filter, I got to thinking about it..... I just had to buy the API nexx with the extension. Set it up this morning, I guess we'll see by tomorrow if it makes a big difference....

So, I've had the Nexx filter going for over 24 hours and now I guess it's time to compare:
Before:



After:


So do you think there's a discernible difference?

Updating the stock list:

NOW I've got:
2 Semi-Picasso Clowns
Starry Blenny
Hector's Goby
Highfin Perchlet
Firefish
Yellow Tang
2 Banggai Cardinals
Target Mandarin
6 Blue Green Chromis
Blue Assessor

Bubble Tip Anemone-----> Moved to another tank
Open Brain Wellsophyllia
Green Worm Brain
Pulsing Xenia
Frogspawn
Green Star Polyp
Pink Birds Nest
Galaxea
Colt Finger
Ritteri Anemone