460 ltr Marine Reef Tank

Stunning Marine Reef Tank- bring the coral reef into your home with a mixed Marine Reef Tank which would cost over £5000 to set up!

Watch it in 720p HD for better realism- sorry for the shakes!

Top of the Range Aqua Medic Percula 120 marine mixed reef tank on Craftsman built 2 door Solid Oak unit
120 x 60 x 65 cm (468 ltr) with inbuilt filtration inc bio balls at rear behind black glass panels- (including lid for filter section) as close to 'plug & play' as you'll get with a large tank!

Aqua Medic Midiflotor Skimmer built in
Uprated Aqua Medic Ocean Runner Return & flow pumps
Upgraded Aqua One MG1200 twin 150w Halide, 4x 24w PL Marine Blue tubes
Koralia 4 flow pump
Twin (6000ltr) flow pumps
300w & 200w Heater/Thermostats
Vecton UV25 Ultraviolet unit running via Aqua Pro external power filter
RO water auto top up unit
Original manual/set up instructions

Stunning set up packed with corals and many kilos of very mature Premium Fijian & Christmas Island live rock (no longer exported) covered with life, including large reef coral branches
Approx 80lbs live coral sand

Fish:
Approx 6" Emperor (Red Sea Purple) Tang
Approx 6" Lipstick Tang
Pair of (very rare) breeding Royal Grammas

Corals:
Hundreds of heads of white Pacific Pulsing Xenia
Xenia Elongata
Long Tentacle Golden Toadstool (dinner plate size plus)
Long Tentacle White Toadstool (5", splitting into two)
Short Tentacle Yellow Toadstool (6-8" round)
Variety of high colour Zoanthids & Paly colonies
Two juvenile Favia LPS corals (green polyps/orange mouths) growing on left side large green 'dragon eye' Zoa colony- these stunners will detach & become free living as they grow to 8" round!
White branching Sinularia (10"x6")
Silvery branching Sinularia (8-9")
Organ Pipe Coral (5" across)
Green/Purple Branching Hammer (4-5" across)
Rare Silver Australian 'Ghost Hammer' (many heads, 8-9" across)
Mushroom colonies, fluorescent green up to 6" across, Green Bubbles up to 4" across
Miniature Clove polyps
Probably more that I can't remember...

Plus Rose Bubble Tip Anemone (8-9", would be 12" but Hammer holding it in check- 3rd gen. tank bred, selected for high colour)

Clean up crew:
Red Fire Shrimp
Red Dwarf Hermit Crabs
Turbo snails
Nassarian & Dove snails
Brittle stars, Asterina's etc etc

The Mandarin & red mushroom rock are now in a seperate setup.

This set up would cost over £5,000 from scratch (plus a couple of years to mature/stock) & has been running for 3 years without problems (I've had some of the stock for much longer, moving them on as they grew). Some light scuff type scratches, but hardly visible. Never seen any disease in here.
Owner has 30+ years experience with marines.

Thanks for looking!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Marine aquarium
• Marine Tank
• Fish
• Corals
• Anemone
• Coral Reef

[templarvr4]

You need more efficient filtration than for a fish only system, generally speaking (according to how sensitive the fish species you keep actually are)...

Particularly if you're considering keeping SPS corals...

[varmman]

For a reef tank...do we need a special filter system?