Rick and Marina's 225G SPS tank

[marinap]

A few folks on this board asked about the details of our system, so here it goes

 

 

Tank Glasscages 60 x 36 x 20

Lighting 2 X 400W Radiums + DIY LED fixture with RapidLed components

Flow Blueline Aqua HD-X pump, 2 Seaswirls, 3 Tunze 6105

Skimmer EuroReef CS12

Dosing GHL doser/Fauna Marin alkalinity, calcium and magnesium (Balling)

Maintenance 25% waterchange every 2 weeks

Corals predominantly Diver’s Den wild acroporas; frags from copps, DaveS and others

Fish Magnificent Foxface, Copperband Butterfly, Evansi, Tuka and Resplendent anthias, Powder Blue Tang

 

Right side

 

 

Middle

 

 

A.suharsonoi

 

 

A.batunai

 

 

A.azurea

 

 

Tuka anthias

 

[MLazar]

I opened this post and said "wow" out loud. I love the colors........

 

Just gorgeous.

 

Maureen

[roni]

Though the pictures are really nice, they actually don't do justice to how nice this tank is. btw, when you frag your A.suharsonoi, I want a piece!

[marinap]

Thank you, Maureen.

 

Thanks for the compliments, roni. I do have frags of suharsonoi, swing by anytime.

[Der ABT]

oooo mannn, those are my dream dimensions right now....VERY NICE TANK...heck id be happy with a 30 wide.....love the shallower tanks though....barebottom, rockwork....all right along the lines of how i would do it....

 

x2 on the suharsonoi frag haha...

 

really like the anthias schools as well

 

i need a bigger tank...

[Leishman]

Nice work Marina! I knew you were Queen of the fish, seeing this we can add Queen of SPS..... How often do you feed those anthias? Their colors are sick.

[marinap]

You make me blush, Rik This tank is trully a team work of the family.

 

Anthias eat 3 times a day, once they are established.

 

And just to brag a little - have you heard that I bred chrysogaster clowns last year? That's one of the lil guys in front of suharsonoi...

Edited May 8, 2012 by marinap

[Ryan S]

Absolutely beautiful! I wish we had TOTM up and running. You'd surely get a page! I'll take one of each please!

 

PS: Did you get your fish primarily from Diver's Den as well?

[marinap]

Thank you, Ryan.

 

Powder Blue came to us 10 years ago from Roozens, Tukas are from BlueZoo, and the rest are Live Aquaria (not DD).

[Saltwaterworx]

Lovin' the Evansis.... Anyone else like them? I may know a guy!!

[marinap]

Evansi are beautiful fish, but require at least 3 feedings per day with small foods - cyclopeeze, nutrimar ova, minced mysis. They have very small mouths, even compared to tukas. They were really difficult to acclimate.

 

Edited May 8, 2012 by marinap

[GraffitiSpotCorals]

Nice colors, nice dimensions, and beautiful fish. Looking forward to more pics.

[surf&turf]

Your system looks AWESOME!!!!

[zygote2k]

nice sticks.

[Incredible Corals]

WOW!

 

 

Thanks for sharing!

[rocko918]

Colonies look great! Congrats on all the fish as well. Very hard to keep most of those fish alive.

[bravanc]

Agree the pics are nice but in person, this tank is awesome! Great job Rick and Marina

[reef addict]

WOW, that's all I can say.

[marinap]

Thank you for the kind words, everyone!

[Viktoriia]

Amazing tank. I would love to see it one day in person!

[Sharkey18]

How do you like your skimmer?

 

Laura

[bcoop78]

You have a beautiful tank!

[marinap]

How do you like your skimmer?

 

Laura

 

It works fine, I have not had any problems with it.

[marinap]

Added these three guys to the tank couple of months ago. They are great!

 

[Coral Hind]

Oh wow, I'm so jealous! Do they normally school with each other in the tank? Do you have an updated full tank shot for us?