Taichimaster's 75gallon mixed reef

taichimaster · Feb 10, 2010

I started reefing about 2 years ago and have been addicted since then. The 75gallon started out as mainly LPS and have since been changed to a mixed reef with lots of LPS and SPS mixture. I have a 75gallon display with a 20gallon sump. I have two Tunze 6055 and a K4 for circulation. I run a Eheim 1262 as my return. I also believe in great skimming so I went out and got myself a BK 160. I also run Activated carbon with GFO to control my nutrients. For Alkanitiy and Calcium, I let my calcium reactor take care of that. I do 10-15% water change every 2-3 weeks.
Here are photos of when I started and also of some livestock.

Enjoy!!!

Blackhawk Fan · Feb 10, 2010

Beautiful!

ReeferRob · Feb 10, 2010

Very nice one of the best looking stands I've seen. I like them nice and clean like that.

taichimaster · Feb 10, 2010

Thanks guys,
These are some older pics, but it is still pretty tidy. The wife has to ok the look and cleaness of everything. The only changes are some of the equipment and of course the corals themselves.

roscoe · Feb 10, 2010

Looking great Peter! Where is this thread at the other forum:smile:. I still need to come by one of these days and check out your system.

taichimaster · Feb 10, 2010

roscoe said:
Looking great Peter! Where is this thread at the other forum:smile:. I still need to come by one of these days and check out your system.

Yo!!

I plan on doing a 20 gallon rebuild with DIY LED light system in the other forum

roscoe · Feb 10, 2010

Nice... DYI LED? Where are you getting the components and how many watts will the emmiters be?

taichimaster · Feb 10, 2010

I will be buying the drivers on nanotuners, heatsink from heatsinkusa, and the LEDs from EcgTech. Might start the build in a few weeks or so.

roscoe said:
Nice... DYI LED? Where are you getting the components and how many watts will the emmiters be?

revhtree · Feb 10, 2010

Very Nice!!

BLACK TANG · Feb 10, 2010

Very nice setup beautiful Jaday WM.

taichimaster · Feb 10, 2010

BLACK TANG said:
Very nice setup beautiful Jaday WM.

Thanks guys, just joined this forum roughly a month ago. Very pleased with everyone here and how helpful they are with the noobies.

acanman · Feb 10, 2010

awesome tank. love the scolys

taichimaster · Feb 10, 2010

acanman said:
awesome tank. love the scolys

Thanks, I like them too. These are small ones though, but then again. That just gives me more room for more scolys:bigsmile:

roscoe · Feb 10, 2010

Hey Peter Thang and I checked out those Scolys at QT. I like that multi color one but kinda pricey for QT.

Nanoreefbro · Feb 10, 2010

Wow! What a very clean setup...

taichimaster · Feb 10, 2010

I went there yesterday and most of them are gone I thought? Like I said, I believe the larger ones are going for a little over 2 bills. kind of pricey for his store.

stedfast82 · Feb 10, 2010

that tank is way to small for all that coral ! Im thinking you should send me some of them. lol nice reef

nater · Feb 10, 2010

Very awesome setup. taichimaster , does your system run quite? Do you happen to have any other shots of your sump ? reason i ask is i want to re-do my sump on my 90 and figured i would ask. Tank looks great.

taichimaster · Feb 10, 2010

Yeah, the tank runs fairly silent. I had the guy build my sump with an enclosed box for the drain. Unfortunately, this restricts me from using a filter sock. all in all, I am happy with the tank and it is silent enough.

You can always build a sump with an enclosed box that has a door for opening and putting in a filter sock. I forgto to have him do it on mine. My sump is pretty much simple and the first few pictures is pretty much what you see.