Nick's 220 Reef

[nickguay]

Hi everyone, I just thought I would take a moment to introduce myself, my name is Nick and I absolutely love fish and corals and I aim to keep a stable peaceful community reef. I’m just about finished setting up my dream tank, a 220 gallon reef. It was a long journey getting here as I went through 5 different freshwater setups even with high tech CO2 in the end, one saltwater 93 gallon reef to end up where I am today!

I don’t have much for pics right now but I will get on that soon, hopefully this week-end but here you can see what my setup looks like without corals or fish and without 6 inches of water at the top because my sump setup is not finished yet. All I have left to do is the plumbing to the sump actually so it’s a matter of an hour at most and I’ll be fully operational



Any questions or comments about my setup, don’t be shy, I love to learn and share

220 gallon Marineland aquarium (72Lx24Wx30H)
Marineland Monterey Stand black
Marineland Monterey Canopy black
Overflow kit 3000 complete with 2 returns
Custom acrylic 56 gallon sump (36Lx20Wx18H)
Danner 18 MAG-DRIVE PUMP 1800GPH
Vertex Alpha Cone 250 Skimmer
72" SunBrite LED F-Series V2 w/ optics
Tunze 6105 power heads x3
Tunze 7096 controller

Rock/coral list:
170 lbs Tukani live rock
240 lbs AA Bahamas Oolite Live Sand
Kenya trees, hairy mushroom, cabbage leather, giant unknown leather, ricordea mushrooms, labyrinth aussie brain, favia, aussie blue tip elegance, green tip frogspawn, purple tip hammer, zoas

Fish list:
Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flavescens) x1
Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus) x1
One Spot Foxface (Siganus unimaculatus) x1
Firefish (Nemateleotris magnifica) x1
Lubbock’s Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus lubbocki) x1
Banggai Cardinal (Pterapogon kauderni) x1
Cleaner wrasse x1
Ocellaris clownfish x2
Royal Gramma Basslet (Gramma loreto) x1
Sailfin/Algae Blenny Red Fin (Salarias fasciatus) x1
Ladder Glider Goby (Valenciennea sexguttata) x1 (to arrive soon)

Inverts:
Tiger Pistol Shrimp (Alpheus bellulus) x1
Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni) x5
Blood Red Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius) x2
Clean up Crew:

Astraea Turbo Snails x7
Zebra Stripe Turbo Snails x3
Red Stripe Snails x3
Cerith Snails x3
Nerite Snails x3
Nassarius Snails x9
West Indy Snails x6
Hermit Crabs x13 (4 blue, 2 red, 2 orange, 4 elegans, 1 halloween)
Emerald Crab x1

Thank you,
Nick