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Set Up Date : February 23, 2000

Tank Size (LxHxW | Volume): 30"x12"x18" 29 gallon All-Glass aquarium

Sump Size (LxHxW | Volume): 18"x10"x18" roughly 10 gallon custom acrylic sump filled 16 inches high with water and with a five inch oolitic sand bed topped off with live sand from a variety of sources

Live Rock (Mass): 40 pounds of premium fiji live rovk

Live Sand (Mass): 20 pounds of live sand add to the main tank on top of a bed of 20 pounds of Seaflor reef sand

Lighting (Type | Wattage | Photoperiod): 175 watt metal halide 10,000K Aqualine Buschke bulb with two 28 watt PC actinic supplements in a fan cooled PFO combination hood

Protein Skimmer (Brand | Model): Precision Marine HOT-1

Biological Filtration (Type): Berlin method with refugium/macroalgae sump on a reverse daylight lighting schedule

Chemical Filtration (Type): HydroCarbon in a filter bag every month or so placed in the overflow box

Circulation (Rate | Brand | Model): two Maxi-Jet 900 power heads at roughly 230 gph pump water circularly around the reef structure. They are switched on and off with a Filtronics wave timer. 1/2" Stumpy model Sea Swirl rotates the Mag 5 return pump from the sump.

Return Pump (Rate | Brand | Model): Mag Drive 5 pumps water from the sump up four feet to a Sea Swirl.

pH (Morning | Evening): 7.90/8.05

Temperature (Range | oC | oF): 79-81

Specific Gravity / Salintity (g/g | ppt): 1.025 maintained with an Aquatune dosing pump and TWP DI water

Alkalinity (meq/l | dKH): 4 meq/L / 11 dKH

Calcium (ppm): ~500 ppm maintained with a DIY calcium reactor

Ammonia (ppm): 0

Nitrite (ppm): 0

Nitrate (ppm): 0

Phosphate (ppm): ??

Fish : currently two A. ocellaris clowns, one Banggai cardinal

Corals : Blastomussa sp., Euphyllia ancora, red Trachyphyllia, Montipora digitata, M. caprisornis, Pocillipora damicronis, Psammacora contigua, Clavularia, Ricordea yuma, Sarcophyton elegans

Invertebrates : Tiger trochus snails, nassarius snails, bumblebee snails, astrea snails, margarita snails, Baja snails a brittle star, two sea cucumbers, an Inland Aquatics and IPSF detritivore kit added to the sump/refugium.

Maintenance Program : five gallons of water changed every month or so

Additional Information : Web page at: http://www.nycas.com/timbo

[This message has been edited by Timbo (edited 26 March 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Timbo (edited 04 August 2000).]
 

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