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TechETS's 300 Gallon Update Mega Post!!!

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It has been about 10 months since I put up my custom 300 Gallon Lee-Mar Reef Tank. There are so many details to share and it is late so I will post these pictures and then I will post a detailed specs update later. There are a lot of pictures so if you want to see the larger picture click the smaller thumbnail and it will show the high-res photo.

Quick Specs:

300 Gallon Lee-Mar /w 90 Gallon Sump
2 x Dart Pumps
2 X 2 Little Fishies 550 Reactors 1 /w Vertex Pellets1 /w Active Carbon
An array of ZEO additives
2 MOcean Oscillating Returns
Vertex Alpha 250 Skimmer
Vertex RX-6 DUO Calcium Reactor
Neptune APEX Controller
5 AquaIllumination Sol LED Fixtures with Controller - With full sunrise and sunset with storms and cloud replication plus dozens of other features including moon phases.
2 x VorTech MP60

Temp 79.5 + or - .2 degrees
pH 8.3
Calcium 480
Mag 1350
Alk 16
Sal 1.025
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate < 3


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Updated 03-14-2011 at 04:38 AM by TechETS

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  1. Jaxom's Avatar
    WOW you have a beautiful tank, you've done well over the last 10 months, congrats. I'm in picture overload right now ........... LOL.
  2. Hat39406's Avatar
    Jaxom said it best, "WOW"! Lots of eye-candy. TechETS, your whole system is awesome!

    What kind of fish is the red/orange one that is hiding in the rock work? Is it a clown?

    What did you use to secure your rocks together? (putty)
  3. gist41980's Avatar
    Beautiful, thanks for all the excellent pictures! I very much like the AI lights.
  4. DJ in WV's Avatar
    envious is all i have to say
  5. TechETS's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hat39406
    Jaxom said it best, "WOW"! Lots of eye-candy. TechETS, your whole system is awesome!

    What kind of fish is the red/orange one that is hiding in the rock work? Is it a clown?

    What did you use to secure your rocks together? (putty)
    If we are both talking about the same fish It is a hawk fish. Lets see if we are both on the same page. Is this the guy checkout the link and let me know:
    http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...193&pcatid=193

    As to the rock-work! Lets just say that I am a pretty good free stacker. None of my live rock is glued epoxied or puttied. I very carefully choose the rock and spent the better part of 3 days stacking it. I do use 2 part putty for affixing coral.
  6. melev's Avatar
    Your tank is looking great - lots of hardwork that has paid off nicely.

    I'd like to suggest you clean up your dart pumps soon as they are accumulating dust where they need to vent. A shop vac and some compressed air should do the trick.

    How are you liking your AI lights? They sure don't take up much space. Any special lighting schedule? With that many, you could definitely run a staggered period if you wanted to.
  7. Neelixx's Avatar
    Where's your sump room? Is that a basement or next room? Actually, you've setup your tank exactly like I am going to do. I'm building a divider between my living room and kitchen with an 8' divider and 250g tank. Looking at yours totally made me think..... mine's gonna suck!!!

    Truly awesome!
  8. reefocd's Avatar
    Nice setup!!! I noticed you run a calcium reactor. I though that it was nearly impossible to maintain a PH above 8.1 running a reactor? Apparently the CO2 effect keeps PH from getting to that 8.3 - 8.4 range? Please tell me your secret.... My PH never gets above 8.15 ish
  9. Hat39406's Avatar
    Yep that's him, Fame Hawk Fish. Got to get me one. Love their eyes!
  10. melev's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by reefocd
    Nice setup!!! I noticed you run a calcium reactor. I though that it was nearly impossible to maintain a PH above 8.1 running a reactor? Apparently the CO2 effect keeps PH from getting to that 8.3 - 8.4 range? Please tell me your secret.... My PH never gets above 8.15 ish
    Fresh air helps immensely. My tank runs 8.1 to 8.3 daily with a calcium reactor.
  11. melev's Avatar
    I love all the pictures you posted. I won't click on all of those thumbnails as it'll take forever to open them all, but it looks like a bunch of colorful treasure.
  12. yiyi67's Avatar
    The tank looks great! Out of curiosity have you been running the AI's from the start? I've been going back and forth on getting them to put over my 325 but haven't seen many people using them on a 30" deep tank. Judging by the pics your coral definitely don't hate them!
  13. Justin1386@gmail.com's Avatar
    I'm new to this site, but I googled custom LeeMar tanks as I'm looking at buying one soon as I'm home from Afghanistan and I seen your first post and couldn't see more so I joined the site was a little confused on the random question lol but I'm glad I joined and got to see this beautiful tank!!!! What are the dimensions of the tank? And as melev was wondering how do you like the AI LEDs?