Rev's lowly frag tank! LOL!

revhtree · Aug 12, 2009

Ok here is my frag set up. It's not big, but I call it mine.

It was just set up a week or two ago so I still got wires and other stuff around the tank. The tank is actually 2 tanks that are on one stand and share a common sump. They have external overflows and the are side by side as you can see. I have a ReefKeeper Lite for this tank but havent set it up yet. I have a Tunze 9020 skimmer and Tunze 6025 for flow. I need one more though. For Lighting I have one 150w MH Viper clip on. It does pretty good, but I am looking to get a 250w for the other side. I may just get 2 24" fixtures for both sides. For now the Viper is doing the job. The stand was done by me and it was just something to get me by. Not meant to be pretty because its not! LOL!

The one side with sand is for my breeding pair of Cardinals and then at one point in time my Picassos and Anemones.

revhtree · Aug 12, 2009

Oh yea the tank is in an upstairs office type room. My back hurt for days from lugging the water up the stairs!

revhtree · Aug 12, 2009

revhtree · Aug 12, 2009

Russellaqua · Aug 12, 2009

Nice little setup. Looks like you have lots of goodies growing on the right side!

Nate82 · Aug 12, 2009

pretty cool set up I like the two tanks side by side gotta finish that stand though!

Emster · Aug 12, 2009

Looks good! Please tell us about the tanks? Custom?

Rukis · Aug 12, 2009

Lookn good Rev! How do the overflows connect to the tanks?

TritonsGarden · Aug 12, 2009

Nice!!! You can almost see the frags growing. Looks like one is almost full.

Jack

Posh · Aug 12, 2009

Very nice =)

UC / Apsley · Aug 12, 2009

Nice Rev! Alaways nice to have that seperate grow out system, looks great!

UC / Apsley · Aug 12, 2009

Nice Rev! Always nice to have that seperate grow out system, looks great!

JR's Reef · Aug 12, 2009

Nice little setup there. Looks like there may be a thing or two in there you could bring to me Sat.

dbarker · Aug 12, 2009

Very Nice Rev! I'm glad I don't have to haul water upstairs! 15feet is way too far for me much less upstairs! Nice frags, I like those...oh while you are bringing frags to Joey08 put a few in for me too!!! lol Debbie

Leishman · Aug 12, 2009

Emster said:
Looks good! Please tell us about the tanks? Custom?

Come on Rev, where you get the tanks?

revhtree · Aug 12, 2009

HAHA! Thanks everyone!

The tanks are from OCEA one of our sponsors and kinda local to me. The overflows each separately flow into the sump and then a mag 9 returns the water and splits at a T as it travels upward. I have ball valves on the mag 9 and on each return to either stop the water or slow it down.

Cuda · Aug 12, 2009

Very nice little set up.

Psychographic · Aug 12, 2009

Can I make a suggestion for you? I've seen setups like this get out of balance due to 2 tanks running off of one pump and sump, usually it becomes a problem if your overflows are'nt large enough. Take a U-Tube and connect the two tanks. This way if one of the tanks tries to run a little fast the extra water coming in can flow to the other tank and balance the levels between the two.

BTW, that's a lot of frags for someone who said they had none.