Background:
I have been in the hobby for over 10 years and over the last couple of years decided to focus my efforts at maintaining an SPS dominate tank. I am a believer in some form of carbon dosing for nutrient control and my first go around at an SPS dominate tank was a 60 cube that utilized bio-pellets.
About 6 months after setting up the tank I moved and lost a majority of my coral. With more space in my home office I decided to go with my current 120 gallon tank and set it up as a Zeovit system. After getting some new fish for the 120 and quarantining them for a couple of months I was finally able to get the new tank going in May, 2014.
System information:
Tank: Marineland 120 gallon w/ single overflow
Sump: Trigger Systems Emerald 39
Skimmer: Vertex Omega 150
Reactor:
Return pump: Eheim 1262
Controller: Apex controller w/ WXM and PM2 modules
Heaters: (2) Eheim Jager 150w
ATO: Tunze Osmolator 3155
Kalk Dosing: Litermeter III w/ Avast Marine kalk stirrer
2-Part Dosing: Apex DOS w/ DDR reservoir
Lightning: ATI Sunpower 8 bulb w/ (2) Actinic Reefbrite Tek LEDs
Sump pics to come.
Stand:
My aquarium is in my home office and sits on a large L desk (10ft x 10ft). The tank side of the desk was made from 2x4s by a friend of mine which I later skinned the inside with white acrylic. The rest of my desk / stand is from Ikea. The entire stand is skinned with Ikea kitchen cabinet panels, doors and uses Ikea kitchen counter-tops. My work desk is made from Ikea kitchen base cabinets.
I really like how things turned out with this idea. It was fairly low cost and the counter tops are very easy to clean-up when I spill water. Once the 2x4 stand was done, it only take a day to put the entire thing together which was nice. If a panel or door gets water damage I can easily replace it with a new one.
And yes, that is the League of Legends LCS on my monitor. If you play, hit me up.
Fish:
Black Tang
Blue Hippo Tang
Achilles Tang
(2) Premium Picasso Clowns
Borbonius Anthias
Four Line Wrasse
Gold Midas Blenny
Orchid Dottybak
(2) Neon Gobies
I have made a couple of attempts at adding additional fish to the system without much success. The tangs are far too aggressive towards new additions. The last fish added to the system was my Borbonius anthias. I added him along with 5 Dispar anthias. The tangs were so worried about the Dispars that the Borbonius apparently got to slip through the cracks. I've had the Borbonius since early February 2015 and he was added to the tank at the end of March.
As for food, they eat whatever I put in the tank. Primarily NLS pellets which are fed 3x a day. Everyday or so I feed some algae on a clip to the tangs. In an attempt at increasing the nutrients in the system I have been recently feeding mysis or brine as a substitute for one of the pellet feedings.
I have been in the hobby for over 10 years and over the last couple of years decided to focus my efforts at maintaining an SPS dominate tank. I am a believer in some form of carbon dosing for nutrient control and my first go around at an SPS dominate tank was a 60 cube that utilized bio-pellets.
About 6 months after setting up the tank I moved and lost a majority of my coral. With more space in my home office I decided to go with my current 120 gallon tank and set it up as a Zeovit system. After getting some new fish for the 120 and quarantining them for a couple of months I was finally able to get the new tank going in May, 2014.
System information:
Tank: Marineland 120 gallon w/ single overflow
Sump: Trigger Systems Emerald 39
Skimmer: Vertex Omega 150
Reactor:
Return pump: Eheim 1262
Controller: Apex controller w/ WXM and PM2 modules
Heaters: (2) Eheim Jager 150w
ATO: Tunze Osmolator 3155
Kalk Dosing: Litermeter III w/ Avast Marine kalk stirrer
2-Part Dosing: Apex DOS w/ DDR reservoir
Lightning: ATI Sunpower 8 bulb w/ (2) Actinic Reefbrite Tek LEDs
Sump pics to come.
Stand:
My aquarium is in my home office and sits on a large L desk (10ft x 10ft). The tank side of the desk was made from 2x4s by a friend of mine which I later skinned the inside with white acrylic. The rest of my desk / stand is from Ikea. The entire stand is skinned with Ikea kitchen cabinet panels, doors and uses Ikea kitchen counter-tops. My work desk is made from Ikea kitchen base cabinets.
I really like how things turned out with this idea. It was fairly low cost and the counter tops are very easy to clean-up when I spill water. Once the 2x4 stand was done, it only take a day to put the entire thing together which was nice. If a panel or door gets water damage I can easily replace it with a new one.
And yes, that is the League of Legends LCS on my monitor. If you play, hit me up.
Fish:
Black Tang
Blue Hippo Tang
Achilles Tang
(2) Premium Picasso Clowns
Borbonius Anthias
Four Line Wrasse
Gold Midas Blenny
Orchid Dottybak
(2) Neon Gobies
I have made a couple of attempts at adding additional fish to the system without much success. The tangs are far too aggressive towards new additions. The last fish added to the system was my Borbonius anthias. I added him along with 5 Dispar anthias. The tangs were so worried about the Dispars that the Borbonius apparently got to slip through the cracks. I've had the Borbonius since early February 2015 and he was added to the tank at the end of March.
As for food, they eat whatever I put in the tank. Primarily NLS pellets which are fed 3x a day. Everyday or so I feed some algae on a clip to the tangs. In an attempt at increasing the nutrients in the system I have been recently feeding mysis or brine as a substitute for one of the pellet feedings.
