Vance's 125 semi-predator semi-venomous tank

[Vance]

Hi all! My name is Vance and I have an addiction. One of my tanks is getting a refresh so I figured I could make a build thread of a semi running tank. The tank was running strong for a year before we had a serious mag spike which took out all mollusks and many large colonies and I have been fighting algae for a year now due to lack of clean up and action on my part with the mag spike.

I'm planning on hooking this system up to my sps tank on a communal sump in the near future, but for now here are the specs.

125 gallon tank: 4'x2'
30 gallon biocube mangrove refugium
55 gallon sump
Aquamaxx es5 skimmer
Lighting is a home made LED system

Livestock includes:
Australian harlequin tusk
Leaf lip soapfish
Scribbled rabbitfish
Frogskin angler
Christmas wrasse

Corals are mostly LPS and zoas

And cleanup crew is almost non existent other than three urchins... The tusk developed a taste for inverts when they died off with the mag spike.

Things I am looking to do before the fish room is complete and tanks are linked together:
Add additional refugium/cheato to sump.
Set up RO filter that has been sitting in the box for almost a year now.
Change rockscape to something sturdy and solid. While making detritus removal easier and removing the dead spots where it accumulates.

 

[Vance]

Here's some pics of the tank before water chemistry took a crap. All electronics plug into the DJ strip in the stand so there are no wires coming out of the back of the tank. And the little biocube now has a 400w metal halide and 6 mangroves coming out of the water with a carpet nem and 2 very new little goldstrip maroons.

 

[Vance]

Fish

 

[Vance]

This is the new rockscape semi-glued. The Marcorocks mortar is awesome stuff, need to get some more. And I found one of the biocube fuge with the new light and trees. These will be moved to the 150 gallon sump I'm looking to add.