taliesin
New Member
Hi everyone.
I took a few years off from having a tank. Before I left we had a tank of some sort for close to 15 years. (things have definitely changed in just the three years we were away.) Before I left I had several sizes from 55, 65, 120, and ended with a 280 (72"x30x30). I had it in the wall in my dining room, but got tired of taking care of it since we were never in there. My wife wanted another one, so we started with a used 65 (it had a severe case of calcium etching on the front glass), and eventually we got tired of looking at a "cloudy" tank. (I know I could have fixed it with draining and using a polisher), but we chose to go with a Planet Aquariums Rimless 120. We both love it now. It's a mixed reef tank with Zoes, LPS, and SPS.
The lighting is a hybrid Aquatic Life 4x54w T5HO with blue bulbs, and have 2 XR30 Pro's running a modified WWC AB+ setting.
Skimmer is a Skimz SM167 (It took a while to get it dialed in)
Trigger Systems Rube 36 (in all my years in, this is the first sump that I actually bought. I've always made them out of freshwater tanks in the past)
I built the stand (it's built like a tank)
I just installed 2 Jabeo DCQ10000 DC pumps (we wanted a quiet return). Previous pumps were duel Sicce 4.0 (they had a slight vibration to them and since this sits in our livingroom it was getting annoying even with a rubber mat under them.)
Thanks
I took a few years off from having a tank. Before I left we had a tank of some sort for close to 15 years. (things have definitely changed in just the three years we were away.) Before I left I had several sizes from 55, 65, 120, and ended with a 280 (72"x30x30). I had it in the wall in my dining room, but got tired of taking care of it since we were never in there. My wife wanted another one, so we started with a used 65 (it had a severe case of calcium etching on the front glass), and eventually we got tired of looking at a "cloudy" tank. (I know I could have fixed it with draining and using a polisher), but we chose to go with a Planet Aquariums Rimless 120. We both love it now. It's a mixed reef tank with Zoes, LPS, and SPS.
The lighting is a hybrid Aquatic Life 4x54w T5HO with blue bulbs, and have 2 XR30 Pro's running a modified WWC AB+ setting.
Skimmer is a Skimz SM167 (It took a while to get it dialed in)
Trigger Systems Rube 36 (in all my years in, this is the first sump that I actually bought. I've always made them out of freshwater tanks in the past)
I built the stand (it's built like a tank)
I just installed 2 Jabeo DCQ10000 DC pumps (we wanted a quiet return). Previous pumps were duel Sicce 4.0 (they had a slight vibration to them and since this sits in our livingroom it was getting annoying even with a rubber mat under them.)
Thanks
