coigula

Coigula is the affectionate name of one of my 3 tangs (and my screen name). I have been keeping reefs since 2002 and am on second tank. I have followed some of the trends in hobby and ignored others.

Description from Top Down- Hardware Description only

Lighting: IceCap 2X250 MH Hamilton 10K, 2X54W T5 UV454 and Indgo, 40watts LED 420nm

Tank: Oceanic 140 (tall 120) with cherry cabinet

Refugium: 20 gallon Life Reef Acrylic Custom (14 X 14 X 20)

Sump: Life Reef Custom Sump (24 X 30 X 20)

Controller: AC jr with DC8 and add on HD DC4 run on 2 20 amp breaker panel GFI's. Heart of keeping simple automated aquarium along with ATO and dosing pumps.

Skimmer: Old Euro Reef 24" tall 8" diameter with 90 watt sedra

ATO: Tunze Osmolator with homemade relay to garage using liter meter remote dosing pump, sometimes run through GEO Kalkreactor to sump (cycled on AC jr)

Media Reactor: Carnivore Media reactor with GFO and Carbon on 10 watt eheim pump

Sump Pump: Eheim 1262 split to both overheads and refugium

Heater: Fluval M 300 Watt

Chiller: Drop in from local garage sale 100 on Neptune DC4 with AC jr

Circulation: (2) 6105 Tunze with (2) 6105 safety switches to 100 aH battery. Each pump is on different GFI circuit.

Dosing: (2) Drew's dosers from BRS adding Ca and Alk again run on AC jr.

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Future Hardware upgrades are UPS that sent power failure notice and APEX, or at least Tunze controllers.