My 120 Gallon Indo-Pacific Reef Top

I moved the contents (rock/water/livestock) from the 150 gallon to this tank in 5 hours without a cycle. No losses!! The 150 was running for 11 months (ontly 4 with livestock) and thus this system is relatively well established.
Tank sits in front of the picture window in the living room giving 4 viewable sides and natural sunlight in the afternoon strongly.

I removed more soft corals to give more room and less allelopathy. Frag of galaxea from IMAC is growing nicely, and will soon have to go due to its sweepers. started with 2 polyps now almost a fist size ball

Wonderful news, my 2 mandarin gobies spent 10 minutes doing an intricate/graceful dance mating...no idea if they finished the deed but see the video here (looks better in higher def.) I have witnessed them doing this a few times now , but have not witnessed an actual spawn, no eggs seen. I am not in a position time wise to try and raise, but if i get some eggs will see what i can do.

December - decided to restart a new deep sand bed 6-7 inches, put in. I have had some coral losses during playing with kalkwasser drip, which is now routine and switching lights over to T5 ballast , but all now stable again

Tank: 120 Gallon All Glass Reef ready, dual corner overflows/Mahogany stand/canopy
Lighting: T5 ballast with 8 x 54 watt bulbs, 2 actinics, 4 daylight, 2 1500K
Sump: MRC 40gallon sump, running coarse filtration and carbon
Live Rock: ~120 pounds in tank/sump
Substrate: 6" DSB seeded with IPSF and others every 4-5 months to keep diverse and powerful filter
Skimmer: EuroReef
Filtration: Phosban (2little fishies) and carbon each through a phosban reactor
Water Flow: return via 2 lockline tubing with Mag 9 pumps, 1 tunze turbelle pump (3000gph)and 1 Seio 1500 gph (total turnover approx.5000gph); and 2 Hydor/Korallia pumps at 1200gph each
Salt: Instant Ocean, salinity at 1.025; Looking to switch to Seachem
Water: RO/DI by AquaFx unit; 35-40 gallon weekly water changes, 4 gallon per week of FW topoff (currently manually)
Parameters: Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate at 0; Calcium 350-450, Alkalinity at 9mg/L - now supplementing with Kalkwasser for fresh water topoff; Temp: 78-80
Controller: Digital Aquatics Reef Keeper - controls lighting, prevents overheating of tank, and has a powerhead on a wave cycle
Backup: DPC battery backup - runs one return pump for 3 hours if power fails, automatically, considering adding another in series
Future: Considering Ozone

Fish:

• 1 yellow Tang - Zebrasoma flavescens
  
• 1 Purple Tang - Zebrasoma xanthurum
  
• pair mandarin gobies Synchiropus splendidus - eating frozen and currently mating every 3-4 days (not collecting eggs currently)
  
• 3 green clown gobies - Gobiodon atrangulatus
  
• 1 neon blue goby - Elacatinus oceanops - cleans his mates up well
  
• 2 lyretail anthias - Pseudanthias squamipinnis
  
• 1 Copperbanded Butterfly - Chelmon rostratus
  
• 2 ocellaris clowns - Amphiprion ocellaris
  
• 2 yellow watchman gobies - Cryptocentrus cinctus
  
• 4 Blue Green Chromis - Chromis viridis
  
• 1 scooter blenny - Synchiropus ocellatus
  

Coral:

Fungia

• Pocillopora frags x 2
  
• 2 small baby frags of plate coral from IMAC 2007
  
• plating Montipora (interesting by ID of skeleton not capricornis, still unsure) - green and orange
  
• Blastomusa wellsi
  
• Tubastrea - sun polyps yellow and black, branching and encrusting
  
• Gorgonian - plexuarella
  
• Pavona sp.
  
• Green Candy cane and variegated
  
• Turbinaria peltata
  

Other Inverts:

• various snails and hermits
  
• 2 Tridacnid crocea clams
  
  

Feel free to email me with suggestions and/or comments docforestal@comcast.net

This page updated December 29, 2007