75 gallon Innovative Marine build

[Zeus440]

This is my first build thread so hopefully I do it justice. Currently it has a sand bottom but I plan on doing the WWC/BRS method so I will remove the sand little by little. I want be able increase the flow without there being a sandstorm in the tank.

Equipment:
75 gallon Innovative Marine tank
APS stand ( included with tank)
Neptune System Cor 15 return pump
Cobalt heater ( can’t remember the wattage)
Nyos Quantum 120 skimmer
Radion 15xr (x2)
Neptune System Apex controller
Aquatic Life t5/led hybrid with 2 daylight and 2 actinic bulbs ( I won this in a raffle at Reefapalooza in Orlando
For flow in the tank there are 2 Vortech mp40 and a Mazpect gyre pump.
For top off I have an XP AQUA Duetto.

Pics incoming

 

[Zeus440]

Oh and I’m waiting on delivery of my Trident

 

[Justfebreezeit]

Looks good! I've got the EXT version and love it. Whats your plan for fish, coral, and an ATO?

 

[Zeus440]

Well fish wise I have a long nose hawkfish,skunk clownfish, six line wrasse and a royal gramma I’m looking to add maybe three more. Coral wise I’m looking to work my way up to easy to keep SPS. I have a xp Aqua duetto.

 

[Zeus440]

The new addition to the system plus it has a refugium but we will see how that goes I’m not sure how good the growth is

 

[Zeus440]

Refugium

 

[Zeus440]

Well the refugium isn’t taking off as well as I would like perhaps their isn’t enough nutrients in the tank. If anyone has any suggestions I would be greatly thankful. Plus I removed the sand,as you can see in the pic included there is some sand which I will remove as I do my water changes. The light schedule is based on the schedule WWC uses which I grabbed from the list of schemes I got off the Apex. I would like to find one for flow or as close as I can get. If I can’t get the refugium going I’ll just return to the filter socks and use carbon and GFO. More to come

 

[Zeus440]

So I have decided to make some changes to the tank. I have had a scare with the ato. The sensor wasn’t working properly and it almost overfilled my sump,so pulled it. I may reinstall the Tunze osmolator. I pulled the ecotech/ATI combination and am going with a Kessil AP9X,I like the simplicity of the plug and play of Kessil. For flow I have 2 Ecotech Vortech mp40 and 2 Maxspect gyres. I also added the sand back I just didn’t like the look of the bare bottom. I’ll have to deal with the flow situation with the sand but it looks better aesthetically,plus I have been hearing that it works better with dry rock(I miss the wet dry rock and the surprises it came with). So those are the changes. I know it may set me back a little but we shall see