o2manyfish
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Hey Folks,
Just signed up and thought I would say Hello. My name is Dave and I have had reef aquariums for over 25 years. I have had salt water aquariums for 30+ years. My current tank is a 400g Display Tank. Thanks to the lovely climate in Southern Cal, all my equipment is located outside the house. This is includes a 250g outdoor sump and frag tank lit by the sun. Utility bills in So Cal are pricey, so I tried to be as efficient as possible in my tank build. My 2 sumps, Display tank and 460g geothermal chiller all run off a single Dart pump, with a heavy dose of gravity feed. For filtration I have over 1000lbs of live rock, a Deltec skimmer, and a 5' fluidized sand filter. I am a proponent of the use of Ozone. In my display tank I have (5) Tunze 6200 hidden in the rock work, and I supplement that with a 30g surge tank on a second story balcony. My reef was a fish tank for the past few years and I just started rebuilding my coral collection since the beginning of 2012. So nothing is very mature in the tank at this time.
These videos are 2 weeks old. I am in the process of converting my surge tank from a Silent Carlson Surge to a Bubble Free Motorized Ball Valve surge. So I shot this video of the old surge.
[video=youtube;wSCdBrg8iNw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSCdBrg8iNw[/video]
[video=youtube;tcpxLCUHI1k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcpxLCUHI1k[/video]
Just signed up and thought I would say Hello. My name is Dave and I have had reef aquariums for over 25 years. I have had salt water aquariums for 30+ years. My current tank is a 400g Display Tank. Thanks to the lovely climate in Southern Cal, all my equipment is located outside the house. This is includes a 250g outdoor sump and frag tank lit by the sun. Utility bills in So Cal are pricey, so I tried to be as efficient as possible in my tank build. My 2 sumps, Display tank and 460g geothermal chiller all run off a single Dart pump, with a heavy dose of gravity feed. For filtration I have over 1000lbs of live rock, a Deltec skimmer, and a 5' fluidized sand filter. I am a proponent of the use of Ozone. In my display tank I have (5) Tunze 6200 hidden in the rock work, and I supplement that with a 30g surge tank on a second story balcony. My reef was a fish tank for the past few years and I just started rebuilding my coral collection since the beginning of 2012. So nothing is very mature in the tank at this time.
These videos are 2 weeks old. I am in the process of converting my surge tank from a Silent Carlson Surge to a Bubble Free Motorized Ball Valve surge. So I shot this video of the old surge.
[video=youtube;wSCdBrg8iNw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSCdBrg8iNw[/video]
[video=youtube;tcpxLCUHI1k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcpxLCUHI1k[/video]
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