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• 280g Starfire glass Reef-ready tank
• 150g sump and refugium built by me
• Euroreef CS12-2 protein skimmer with two Eheim 1262 pumps
• Lifereef Calcium Reactor with a flaky Milwaukee pH controller
• Aqua Controller III to control lighting, heat, and log some parameters, available on the web and my iPhone (AquaNotes App).
• 55g water changed every two months.
• 100gpd RO/DI used for top offs and to make more saltwater. My tank evaporates about 5g per day.
• Kent Sea Salt or Red Sea Pro,

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For those of you that don't know me I had a 150 gal tank I called the Candyshop that I filled with the most colorful corals I could find. I upgraded from a 24g to a 90g to the 150 and kept mostly all my corals along the way. Last year I decided to break down after a move and an outbreak of velvet I got from a fish I bought at Tong's (a LFS here in socal).

Living without the 150 Candyshop has been both nice and sad. I think ...

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