thebanker

Hi Reef Addicts. I'm here because it's BS that Marc got banned from RC, and I want to support someone who has been a major inspiration to me in this hobby. I've followed Melev's Reef since I got into the hobby exactly 1 year ago.

Here is a FTS of my 55G born April 2009


FTS - 10000K lights only

Stocking List

SPS
Peach/brown montipora capricornis
Purple acropora millipora
Sunset pocillopora

LPS
Green hammer coral euphyllia ancora (10 heads)
Frogspawn (2 heads)
Torch (2 heads)
Pink & black chalice (7 eyes)
10 heads trumpet/candycane (caulastrea)

Soft
Green paly's (~ 100 polyps)
Red sea pink pulsing xenia (~100 heads or more, each head containing ~20-50 polyps.
Red dichosoma's (mushroom coral, ~50 polyps)
Green striped dichosoma's (mushroom coral, 9 polyps)
Green/yellow zoa's (~100 polyps)
Finger leather
Green star polyps
Rhodactis (mushroom coral, 3 polyps)

Fish
2 oscellaris clowns (mated pair)
1 royal gramma
1 blue damsel (female)
1 burrtail filefish

Clean up Crew
1 black and green tuxedo urchin
1 sea cucumber
1 serpent star
7 hermit crabs
12 nerite and turbonella snails
1 sea hare

Sumpless Design: Equipment & Specs
Current USA Nova Extreme 4x54w T5 (Current USA 460nm/10000K/460nm/10000K)
80 lbs tucani live rock
20 lbs Caribsea Live Sand aragonite sand
5 lbs crushed coral
1 Koralia Evolution 750
2 Koralia K1's
1 CPR Aero Force protien skimmer
1 Rena Filstar XP1 (sponge filter, Seachem Purigen, activated carbon, micro filter pads, cleaned and swapped weekly)
1 Phosban 150 reactor
1 tom's surface skimmer powered by MJ1200

Thanks for reading!

Mike / thebanker