Long awaited 300 g reef !

[Miles Laughton]

After years planning and building the space to put this tank in I’m finally cycling my 75” x 38” x 26” SPS reef tank.
Tank built by Aquarium Connections UK, mitred 15mm glass from and side returns, central rear flow over return with bean animal syphon, Ultra Reef returns.
Self built acrylic sump 60 x 24 x 18.
Self built timber stand.
Vectra L2 return pump.
2 x MP 60.
2 x MP 40.
7 x Orphek v4 leds lights.
Royal Exclusiv bubbleking delux 300 skimmer.
Innovative 1.7 XFilter
Alkatronic
Dosetronic
4 boxes DD Reef Rock
45 kg sand

 

[Devaji]

dang that's alot of light you have. tank looks great!

 

[Miles Laughton]

Yep thank you! Don’t want to run these to hard... 75- 80 percent at peak.
I run v4’s now at up to 100 percent.

 

[lavoisier]

Absolutely beautiful. Looking forward to your build...

 

[chrisgold]

After years planning and building the space to put this tank in I’m finally cycling my 75” x 38” x 26” SPS reef tank.
Tank built by Aquarium Connections UK, mitred 15mm glass from and side returns, central rear flow over return with bean animal syphon, Ultra Reef returns.
Self built acrylic sump 60 x 24 x 18.
Self built timber stand.
Vectra L2 return pump.
2 x MP 60.
2 x MP 40.
7 x Orphek v4 leds lights.
Royal Exclusiv bubbleking delux 300 skimmer.
Innovative 1.7 XFilter
4 boxes DD Reef Rock
45 kg sand

Wow some setup that

 

[Zach B]

Nice setup!

 

[Miles Laughton]

Thank you Chris, very long time coming. Never had the room for it before and had to save up a while!
sitting on hands while it cycles.
My over crowded 4 foot inhabitants needs some space!

 

[Miles Laughton]

Nice setup!

Thanks buddy

 

[paul01609]

Looking good I just emailed them for a price of a tank

 

[Miles Laughton]

Great tanks mate

 

[Miles Laughton]

While in my workshop

 

[chrisgold]

Thank you Chris, very long time coming. Never had the room for it before and had to save up a while!
sitting on hands while it cycles.
My over crowded 4 foot inhabitants needs some space!

Nice to see a dream coming togeather enjoy it mate old tank looks sweets aswell

 

[Miles Laughton]

Thanks Chris, we all gotta chase a dream at least once in our lifetime

 

[mattdg]

classy.

 

[Miles Laughton]

classy.

Cheers Matt

 

[McPuff]

Wow, 7 Atlantiks! I've got 3 over my 300DD and it lights it up really well. You'll have NO shading!

 

[Miles Laughton]

Yep I have two running on a 4’. Great lights.
Hoping to run them dialled down a bit but still give out some serious PAR!
Thanks

 

[Miles Laughton]

Managed to get some fish in now the tank is cycled, going a bacterial bloom and some Dino’s!

 

[BZOFIQ]

Any updates?

 

[Miles Laughton]

Long hard slog!
Tank cycled ok apart from some cyano/ brown algae.
Slowly increased the fish stock only to find my fish had flukes with whitespot.
All the fish had fresh water dips followed by a few doses of Prazipro.
I did treat the whitespot with poly labs medic and medic paramedic again numerous doses! But we all know how those products work and their limitations!

I lost a few fish through my own fault of rushing and not quarantining my fish for long enough!
Anyway, last few months the whitespot has cleared, no sign of flukes and the fish look fat and healthy!
I now run a ozone unit and UV which obviously doesn’t eliminate the parasites but helps.
Numbers are looking good regarding nutrients so test pieces SPS went in out my quarantine this weekend so fingers crossed we can now.

will take some pics on the weekend