Dave's 300 Gallon Reef

[Mrfish55]

I guess I should start my own thread to build off. This is my new 300 gal Marineland deep dimension tank (72x36x27) We recently purchased a new home and I seized the opportunity to upgrade, my previous tank was a 180 which was an upgrade from my original 77 gal which I started over 18 years ago (boy have things changed). I allways wanted a tank built into a wall and the new house gave me the opportunity. The tank has now been up and running for four months and all went smooth with the move and there was only a few minor casualties, here are a few pics I will try to get some better ones later.
Tank built into wall, service room behind.

One of the many patches of pocillipora (grows like a weed in my tank)

My frogspawn, started as a single polyp from Marie a few years back, now has 20+ heads

My clam (lost the other one in the move)


I will try to get better pics of some of the other inhabitants later.

[JDigital]

FTS looks great... What's your lighting? Filtration? etc... Got any pics from the build up?

[marie]

Originally Posted by Mrfish55

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My frogspawn, started as a single polyp from Marie a few years back, now has 20+ heads



I will try to get better pics of some of the other inhabitants later.

And to think you wanted to give it back to me because it wasn't doing very good
The purple tip montipora you gave me in trade has been spread all over the lower mainland and the island...pretty much to anyone who comes to visit me actually

[Skimmerking]

wow man love the trim did you use 1/4" round around the edge of the trim

[Mrfish55]

Originally Posted by JDigital

FTS looks great... What's your lighting? Filtration? etc... Got any pics from the build up?

Lighting-72" Coralife aqualight elite 3x 250w 14k halide 2x98x pc actinic
Filtration- 55 gal sump, Precision Marine Bullet 2 skimmer
Precision Marine calcium reactor/pinpoint controller
Medusa temp controller
Tunze wavebox
Tunze ozmolator for top off
Korallia 4 for added circulation
Main return pump Iwaki 40wmd
Coralife 50gpd RO w/float valve to 20 gal resevoir
S.G. 1.025
Temp 77.9
Alk 8-10dkh
Calcium 420
Nitrate,Phoshate undetectable (medusa coloromiter used for testing)

I think there may be a couple pics as we worked on it but I basically went from nothing to done in 3 days because we had to be out of the old place so there was not time to document the whole process.

[Mrfish55]

Originally Posted by marie

And to think you wanted to give it back to me because it wasn't doing very good
The purple tip montipora you gave me in trade has been spread all over the lower mainland and the island...pretty much to anyone who comes to visit me actually

I don't remember where I got the original frag of that pocillipora from but it sure grows and spreads fast (allready have new ones growing on the glass) it has even morphed to at least three different color varieties.

[Skimmerking]

Ok Dave we don't care about what you have in the back, Actually we do, We want pictures of the back side of your tank, Skimmer's lights sumps power bars RO units you name it.

STOP BE TIGHT WITH PICTURES.

[Mrfish55]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

wow man love the trim did you use 1/4" round around the edge of the trim

The trim is actually three pieces, the outer most part is door casing to tie it into the rest of the room trim and then a piece if 1x4 and then a piece of 1/4x1 to trim it close to the tank glass.

[Mrfish55]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

Ok Dave we don't care about what you have in the back, Actually we do, We want pictures of the back side of your tank, Skimmer's lights sumps power bars RO units you name it.

STOP BE TIGHT WITH PICTURES.

LOL, I will try to get you all some more pics real soon, not much of a photographer so it takes me time to get decent pics.

[marie]

Originally Posted by Mrfish55

LOL, I will try to get you all some more pics real soon, not much of a photographer so it takes me time to get decent pics.

I'm pretty sure Mike doesn't care if they're decent or not