200 gallon Innovative Marine EXT So Cal

[tritonpower]

I went today, kind of underwhelming

Really. I enjoyed it. If you want corals for decent prices it's worth it.

 

[takoarm8]

 

[takoarm8]

Well we are completely wet and running. Lots of cleanup today while cycle is happening.

Thru the Neptune grow light on the fuge. After cycle I’ll get some sort of algae in there not sure what kind yet. Open to suggestions.

Need to build two separate controller panels for each side.

Going to put my ATO reservoir outside of the main cabinet.

Need to figure out how I want to rig the lights. I feel like this is gonna serve well in helping me to control the impulse to turn the lights on before 30 days.

I have 15# of Australian live rock coming in and I can’t wait for that. Will help seed the aquarium along with the 25# of sump rock I was able to pick up from a buddies sump that I had cooking since October.

 

[takoarm8]

 

[takoarm8]

Just cherry picked some Australian live rock to give my tank a rocket ship of organisms and life. I can practically smell the pictures. Can’t wait to get these in my paws and into the reef tomorrow. I’ll post an opening video of the box tomorrow and some closeup pics tomorrow.


Thanks @Eric Cohen

 

[takoarm8]

Pics don’t do the rock justice there is coralline sponges and algae all over this stuff. Thanks @Eric Cohen.

 

[takoarm8]

 

[bakbay]

Hey there neighbor! Love the setup and aquascape - definitely following along.

Happy reefing!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Pics don’t do the rock justice there is coralline sponges and algae all over this stuff. Thanks @Eric Cohen.

Aquascape looks good!

 

[takoarm8]

All cycled in 5 days: the glory of using live rock instead of just sterile Marco rock. Time to throw a school of chromis in there

 

[Reefolution]

Nice looking tank. I like the open aquascape.

 

[takoarm8]

Let there be fish.

6 green chromis
2 “1.5” hippo tangs
1 exquisite fairy wrasse

Going to add
4 cleaner shrimp
Melanarus wrasse


Next wave when algae pops up. Guessing in 30-60 days but tank conditions will dictate

Snails
Hermits
Sand goby
Scopas tang
Purple tang
Powder blue tang
Lipstick Nano tang

After we have a pod population

7 lyretail anthias (very small)
Scott’s fairy wrasse
Guilded fairy wrasse
Clown tang (small)

 

[DenverSaltyFarm]

Your tank is looking great!! Love the live rock I bet that will give some great coralline algae to the tank

 

[takoarm8]

Your tank is looking great!! Love the live rock I bet that will give some great coralline algae to the tank

Thanks so much. Hopefully we get some cool varieties of red pink purples and oranges

Still really don’t know what my tank looks like since it hasn’t been lit up yet.

 

[takoarm8]

First time doing a fuge out some mud and 3 kinds of macros in there and dumped a few glasses of pods in there. Wonder if it’s too soon to be doing this? Oh well here goes.


Calurpa
Pom pom
And halimeda

 

[takoarm8]

 

[tritonpower]

adding light mount ideas to this thread so others can chime in. If your ceiling is too high for a ceiling mount you could do a mount like mine but since the tank is already full the L shape of the brackets would have to be upside down compared to mine. So the brackets attached to the wall would have to be above your tank on the wall attached to studs. It is not hard. you can see in my light mount video. 2 long brackets attached to the studs then attach the L shape to those 2 brackets. Not sure how well it could hinge like mine since the L is now upside down but the 8020 website has all sorts of hinges to check out.

 

[takoarm8]

Added my Tang Gang

 

[takoarm8]

 

[tritonpower]

Beautiful. How are they getting along?