Tank Entry

My uncle got out of the hobby sometime around 2004 and sold most of his stuff, this week my parents went to visit and he passed along some of his last reef equipment.

5-stage spectra pure filter, with a pure check monitor, auto shut off, extra DI and chloramine filters
My first concern is what to do with it; I already have 6 stages on my current system hmmmm…11 stage double membrane? This is very tempting. All the filters and membrane need to be replaced which isn’t a big deal ...

Now that I have been slowly stocking up on SPS Corals for my aquarium I felt that I didn't have enough lighting. So I placed an order with Rapid LED for two Rapid LED RetroFit Constant Current LED Lighting Kits (I already had two kits from my previous setup). I now have 4 separate Rapid LED RetroFit Constant Current LED Lighting Kit running on 4 Drivers with 6 LED a piece for the equivalent of 250 watts of Meta Halide Lighting. This made such a difference to me. I also still have the ability ...

Okay, I wanted to post some pics earlier but my e-mail didn't work and I've been real busy with things here at home. Here is a picture I took of my new home, I thought the lighting was pretty.

Okay, now for my tank. Here is a picture from September. Before moving tank.



And here is a picture of the same tank moved to the new house. I pretty much was putting things in NOT in an orderly

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Well-
I finally took some FTS of the new setup:

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Details:

Oceanic 75g RR, 20G sump
180 W DIY LED Lighting
Quiet One 3000 for return, 2 BRS media reactors
TLF Biopellets in a Phosban Reactor fed by a MJ900
Vortech MP40wES, MP10wES for main tank circulation ...

So I have been very happy with my Bubble Magus NAC-5E Protein Skimmer since I bought it a few months back but as with everything in this aquarium build I have decided that I need to make some slight upgrades and adjustments in order to suite the overall goal of this aquarium. So I have noticed that my Nitrates have been slowly creeping up over the past few weeks (they are currently 20ppm as of this post). I have a tendency to over feed and my display is stocked quite heavily with various types ...