75 Gallon Reef Tank

metal halide start up. 75 gallon pre drilled tank with corner overflow. 2x 150 watt 10k metal halide, 2x 54 watt t5 actinics. 29 gallon sump/refugium with an urchin skimmer and chaeto in the fuge. livestock is a powder brown tang, bi color blenny, strawberry pseudo, true percula and gold stripe maroon clowns, coral beauty,blue damsel, gold head goby, 2 cleaner shrimp, a pistol shrimp, bubble tip anemone, sand sifting star, 4 fighting conchs. for corals, various leathers, 2 kinds of star polyps, 4 types of mushrooms, 12 types of zoos, a brain, a plate coral, xenia, frogspawn, colt, galexy and a hydnophora

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• 75 gallon reef tank
• fish tank
• 75 gallon
• reef tank
• corals
• saltwater fish
• metal halides
• t5's
• fish

[cormancc1313]

Thanks. The sump/fuge is just a standard 29 gallon tank. I sectioned it off into 4 sections. First is live rock second is skimmer third is return and fourth is fuge. I plumbed an inlet to the fuge so it could be low flow and flow into the return section. No wave maker just random flow. If you do a 75 I think the 29 is a perfect size for a sump, its taller so it can handle more water if the power ever went out or something went wrong.

[cesar333]

So whats your elec bill like?

[cormancc1313]

@cesar333

The tank is down now, I moved a few months ago. The tank was at my moms house and I asked her if she could nitice a difference in the bill with the tank up and she said yes but never said how much. I just got my new bill with only a 6 gallon up with a 70 watt hqi on it and I am at $100 a month. That is really high but I dont know if its all from the tank. My mom said that was high too so I guess the bill with the old tank was less.

[force52xxxx]

really nice tank and great water movement are you using a wave maker

[cormancc1313]

@force52xxxx Thanks. No wave maker just crossing currents. I thought for a while the corals wouldnt be happy with all this flow but they ended up liking it and had great polyp extension.

[cormancc1313]

I have 1 korlia 3 and 2 1's and a maxijet 1200 on the back wall. I moved them around now and i have less flow now but I think I might put them back for more flow because the corals seem to like it more.

[Copperdog230]

Looks great dude, I am just starting up a 75 reef now, what are the dimensions of the 29 gal sump. I would like to do the largest sump/ref. possible. Also do you have a wavemaker for the powerheads? Thanks!

[force52xxxx]

ya dude the tank look fricken great to me it looks like a section in a coral reef in the ocean awsome work i hope when i set up my first salt water tank it looks like this i just haft to sell my 125 gallon fresh water tank and work for my dad and i am going to go out and buy that 60 gallon red sea max 250 it has the over flow system and sump all built in what system are u using 

[walnutridgeman]

what kind of powerhead and how many do you have in there? It looks like alot a strong current but I only see the one (look slike a corilia) in the corner.

Beautiful tank!