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So with a little help from a friend (by little I mean him coming over and taking all the pics for me, thank you Daniel). I actually have some good shots of some of my equipment and some of my livestock in my 325. Starting with equipment and under stand shots:


This is a shot from the right end of my stand where all the electrical of the system is run to. I wanted to try to seal this area off from any water or moister as well as keep it as organized as possible. Nothing bugs me more than a big tangled mess of cords. The outlets and Reefkeeper modules are mounted to a 16 gauge piece of metal that is powder coated to match the stand. There is about a 5" gap behind it to allow room for all the cords to be run semi-organized. Behind this is a piece of 1/2" plywood painted with 3 coats of Kilz on each side as well as a piece of polystyrene glued to each side. This is the same method that I used for both the floor and ceiling of the stand and has so far held up very well.



Here is the return section of the sump. I threw most of the live rock out of my old tank in here for now, but I will probably pull it out eventually. I'm not a big fan of having all that rock in there I think its a potential detritus trap and it makes it hard to keep the sump as clean as i want it. I will probably yank it out of there when the rock in the DT has become fairly matured.



This is my Bubble King Super Marine 250. This thing is freaking awesome! The amount of crap it pulls out of my water really makes love it. BTW, you know your a reef addict when you get a big grin on your face while cleaning a big cup of fish poo because it smells like a big cup of fish poo!



Here you can see how I ended up integrating in a frag tank. It fits almost too well and I am really happy I was able to do get this thing in there. This is the first tank I've drilled and it ended up in one piece! (Actually 2 if you count the slug from the hole.) It drains into my skimmer chamber via a durso standpipe and is fed by a line connected to my main return ump which sits right behind it. I also have a Vortech MP10 ES in there for water flow. Right now I have a few frags and a few pieces of live rock from the old tank as well as a pair of false percs.



This is an overview of my lighting assembly. It is on a linear actuator so it can be raised and lowered to adjust for proper lighting and to allow ease of maintenance.



This is an under shot of the light shroud. You can see the 3 400W metal halides as well as the 4 3' T5 bulbs that I'm running. If you look closely you can also see the LED moonlight pods that I have hooked up to my RKE.



This is kind of a funky shot of where I am running the media reactors, but it gets the point across. The manifold is tied into my return pump and allows me to control each set of reactors individually. I have room to run 3 of these but I will start out running just the 2. Also my calcium reactor and CO2 tank sit right behind these in the open space you can see.

I will also post a bunch of live stock pics in an album so anybody can check them out if they want! I would appreciate any comments, critiques, or concerns you may have. Thanks!

-Ryan