Reef Tank - Custom Gravity Sump & Refugium

ctenophor Says:

Apr 16, 2009 - hello straight guy! i am at my friends house, and i noticed your comment. i have a free salt, fresh, and brackish water aquatic help email set up, where you, or anyone for that matter, may e-mail any questions they may have. on a 90 gallon those wont be able to support most hard corals, and wont support many of the soft corals. just as a general rule of thumb, you want to have at least 3 watts per gallon before you think of adding any softies, 4-5watts per gallon for hard corals,

ctenophor Says:

Apr 16, 2009 - with that in mind all corals have different preferences, some are better off with less than 1 watt per gallon (yellow sun coral- tubastrea aurea) and some need 5+ watts ( sunshine montipora) the coralife system would give you a little more than 1 watt per gallon. you could possibly have some corralimorphs if they were possitioned in the highest reaches of you rocks (few inches below surface) or maybe some gsp, but i wouldn't advise it.

Ryan Duncan Says:

May 21, 2009 - nice tank! check out mine (ryans reef video)

Alec McRae Says:

Jul 17, 2009 - 54-40 - Crossing A Canyon good shit ehh

ctenophor Says:

Sep 7, 2009 - hehehehehehe stupid rule. par isn't the only thing that matters. lol i can be sending 1,000,000,000 photons of uvb light and the coral cant do anything with it. go to reef central. read in the advanced topics about lighting. its a wonderful read, and it shows how l;ittle we all know! including me...until i read it....and still

willieturnip Says:

Sep 27, 2009 - Watts doesn't measure the actual light output anyway. Lumens all the way.

hugo2x Says:

Dec 20, 2009 - nika you crazy

calbear420 Says:

Mar 31, 2010 - deep enough sand bed geez

brennjames206 Says:

Jul 9, 2010 - LOL Jimmie Dale Gilmore is Smokie.

FarRightFred Says:

Jul 26, 2010 - lol

UrbanAnarchist44 Says:

Jul 28, 2010 - why the 6'' sand bed? 

04lmal Says:

Aug 26, 2010 - just a little constructive criticism your sand bed shouldnt be that deep, movement of the sand creates air pockets in the sand which left long enough allows bacteria to grow inside. once the pocket is desturbed it will contaminate your water and could potentially kill your fish and or corals. just thought ide warn you because its obvious uve put a lot of time in such a good tank.

04lmal Says:

Aug 26, 2010 - just a little constructive criticism your sand bed shouldnt be that deep, movement of the sand creates air pockets in the sand which left long enough allows bacteria to grow inside than once desturbed will contaminate your water and could potentially kill your fish and or corals. just thought ide warn you because its obvious uve put a lot of time in such a good tank.

rarityd Says:

Oct 23, 2010 - wow, that s a lot of sand. it's a very nice looking tank, regardless.

Sammy31Dee Says:

Nov 5, 2010 - y the giant sand bed. not a ton of trates??

300pzl Says:

Dec 19, 2010 - dude, you have too much sand!

devilclio Says:

Dec 24, 2010 - way to much sand going to kill everything sand beds hold massive amounts of nitrate

Robertsclub Says:

Jan 23, 2011 - to  much sand!

Robertsclub Says:

Jan 23, 2011 -  true!!

macdaddy1600 Says:

Mar 11, 2011 - nice tank to much sand tho

ReefCollege Says:

May 19, 2011 - nice

wheretherebedragons Says:

May 28, 2011 - very nice does the deep sand bed help reduce nitrates in the tank.

AUSSIE RC Says:

Nov 12, 2011 - would you like a fish tank with tour sand bed?

mmur47558 Says:

Dec 27, 2012 - Nice tank. Should look into natural co2 bubbles ( sugar yeast)