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Rick and Marina's 225G SPS tank


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

 

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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

 

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Middle

 

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A.suharsonoi

 

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A.batunai

 

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A.azurea

 

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Tuka anthias

 

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

 

Just gorgeous.

 

Maureen

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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!

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Thank you, Maureen.

 

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

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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?

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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).

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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.

 

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