My 140 Bare bottom rimless

[dr.dator]

Hi! I'm fairly new to R2R but have been running some type of a reef tank for about 4 years now. This will be my attempt to show and document my current setup.

So, the basics:
Display tank: custom built rimless 140 gallon (540 liter)
Sump: about 50 gallons (200 liter)
Stand: Aluminum frame with painted MDF covers. Designed and built by myself to make the sump as accessible as possible.

Gear:
Bubble King Double Cone 200 skimmer
Red Dragon RD3 Speedy return pump
Reef Octopus ZF140 zeolith reactor
2 Tunze 6105 Streamer pumps
Tunze Multicontroller 7096
Pacific Sun Kore 5th doser pump
300W Eheim thermocontrol heater
Unknown GAC reactor

Light:
Orphek Atlantik 2.1
Custom built 4 x 54W T5
Current t5 setup front to back: ATI Blue plus, Red Sea Reef-spec Pink, ATI Coral Plus, ATI Blue Plus

I'm currently running the Fauna Marin Zeolight system since two weeks so this is what i'm dosing at the moment:
FM Balling light Alk, Calcium, magnesium and trace elements with the PS Doser
Manual dosing FM Reef Vitality, FM Ultra MinS and FM Color Elements

Fish
2 Ocellaris clowns
5 Chromis viridis
5 Pseudanthias squamipinnis
1 Six line wrasse
1 Yellow Zebrasoma scopas
1 Bangaii cardinal

Coral
Acropora Yongei
Acropora Tortuosa
Acropora Millepora
Acropora Spathulata
Acropora Microclados
Euphyllia Paradivisa
Euphyllia Paraancora
Montipora Capricornis
Montipora Digitata
Rhodactis Indosinensis
Seriatopora Caliendrum
Seriatopora Hystrix
Zoanthids (not sure of the exact names)
A few other acros i don't know the names of

And some pictures

 

[kendavjac]

Great looking tank

 

[jgvergo]

Love it!

 

[Chrisfish]

Beautiful set up and your pictures are awesome , thanks for sharing it with us and welcome to r2r!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Wow this is an amazing beautiful reef! The frogspawn actually looks like a tree growing! Thank you for sharing!

Hi! I'm fairly new to R2R but have been running some type of a reef tank for about 4 years now. This will be my attempt to show and document my current setup.

So, the basics:
Display tank: custom built rimless 140 gallon (540 liter)
Sump: about 50 gallons (200 liter)
Stand: Aluminum frame with painted MDF covers. Designed and built by myself to make the sump as accessible as possible.

Gear:
Bubble King Double Cone 200 skimmer
Red Dragon RD3 Speedy return pump
Reef Octopus ZF140 zeolith reactor
2 Tunze 6105 Streamer pumps
Tunze Multicontroller 7096
Pacific Sun Kore 5th doser pump
300W Eheim thermocontrol heater
Unknown GAC reactor

Light:
Orphek Atlantik 2.1
Custom built 4 x 54W T5
Current t5 setup front to back: ATI Blue plus, Red Sea Reef-spec Pink, ATI Coral Plus, ATI Blue Plus

I'm currently running the Fauna Marin Zeolight system since two weeks so this is what i'm dosing at the moment:
FM Balling light Alk, Calcium, magnesium and trace elements with the PS Doser
Manual dosing FM Reef Vitality, FM Ultra MinS and FM Color Elements

Fish
2 Ocellaris clowns
5 Chromis viridis
5 Pseudanthias squamipinnis
1 Six line wrasse
1 Yellow Zebrasoma scopas
1 Bangaii cardinal

Coral
Acropora Yongei
Acropora Tortuosa
Acropora Millepora
Acropora Spathulata
Acropora Microclados
Euphyllia Paradivisa
Euphyllia Paraancora
Montipora Capricornis
Montipora Digitata
Rhodactis Indosinensis
Seriatopora Caliendrum
Seriatopora Hystrix
Zoanthids (not sure of the exact names)
A few other acros i don't know the names of

And some pictures

 

[akis28]

great tank!!what are the dimmensions and the thicknes of the glass?

 

[Robink]

Looks great! Love that your frag rack is behind the corals.

 

[Fin]

Very nice looking reef. Thanks for sharing it with everyone. And, welcome to R2R!

 

[Latinreefer]

Great looking tank, you like hardware with Red in it!!

 

[fragit]

I have a reef octopus skimmer I love it. I just looked at their site and didn't see the zeolite reactor. Are you just using one of their media reactors? Awesome tank very tight, awesomeness!

 

[ubasu]

What episode of max and Ruby are you watching

Nice tank too!

 

[reefhobby]

I freaking love that hammer coral man!!!!!!!! How long did it take to get that big

 

[B40REEF]

Wow! Extremely stunning reef and hats off for the custom build, it's one of the best parts of getting into the hobby. I can only hope mine looks this good one day.

 

[Salty1962]

Looks great! Love that your frag rack is behind the corals.

+1 That's pretty cool.

 

[Salty1962]

Awesome Tank!

 

[dr.dator]

Wow, what a response! Thanks guys!

great tank!!what are the dimmensions and the thicknes of the glass?

Thanks! Tank dimensions are 1400mm x 560mm x 700mm (WxHxD) and the glass is 15mm low iron.

I have a reef octopus skimmer I love it. I just looked at their site and didn't see the zeolite reactor. Are you just using one of their media reactors? Awesome tank very tight, awesomeness!

Thanks! It's an old model not being produced anymore. My LFS did't have the FM Zeomatic reactors (which I originally wanted to get) in stock so I bought this one instead really cheap. So far it's working well, but I have to pump it manually every 2 days. Not a big deal as I'm pretty much tinkering with the tank every day anyways.

What episode of max and Ruby are you watching

Nice tank too!

Haha, didn't even know the name of the show. My two and a half year old was watching something random while I was taking photos...

I freaking love that hammer coral man!!!!!!!! How long did it take to get that big

Thanks! I've had it for almost 3 years now. It grew from maybe 5 heads to I don't know probably more than 50 now...

 

[Homebrwr]

Awesome ... Curious to see what settings you use for the Orphek..?

 

[dr.dator]

Awesome ... Curious to see what settings you use for the Orphek..?

I'm running it pretty blue. Peak values are currently:
Ch1: 10%, ch2: 100%, ch3: 80%, ch4: 80%

My T5s help to balance out the blue look and make it more white. I realized now that I got it wrong when I described my T5 setup... Currently it is as follows: coral+, reef-spec pink, coral+, blue+.

 

[BkReefBaby]

very nice

 

[Zoaeasy]

Have been debating bare bottom vs sand for my planned 120 peninsula but have to say this really is a strong persuasion for bare bottom. This is just lovely.