After lurking for several years I finally decided to introduce my self. I live in the greater Seattle area and have been keeping reef tanks since 2005. Fish tanks since 1988. Originally this started out as a 120 in-wall but within a year I was unsatisfied.
Then came the construction,because I wanted a corner view. I also built an addition on the back of my house for an equipment room. Apparently I no longer have any pics of the tank room addition, and yes, my tank is in the laundry room facing the living room.
I'll skip past the two and a half years when I broke down the tank and turned it into a planted FW discus tank during which time I still built a custom 175 bow front and another system keeping my love for reefing alive.Now I'll quit boring you with history and get this thread up to today.
I have a 150 gallon glass sump which has a 70G refugium and 20G return chamber. The refugium is lit with four 36" HO T-5's
30G frag tank made from an old sump lit with a DIY 12 bulb LED
Bubble King 250 skimmer
Geo 624 calcium reactor with a milwaukee controller
Tunze osmolator ATO
Ranco dual stage controller for heating and AC cooling (in the tank room, which makes it nice to work in on hot days)
Neptune AC III which only controls four hydor evo 1050's and turns on/off the display LED's
DIY 168 emitter LED with 7 drivers dimmed by a home made arduino controller.
and two Tunze 6105's controlled with an old 7095 controller I recently picked up for $20.
I have the Tunze's and the AC III (two hydors at a time) synced to make a gyre in both directions for a half hour at a time.
That's about it for tonight. I'll finish with a few more recent pic's.
Then came the construction,because I wanted a corner view. I also built an addition on the back of my house for an equipment room. Apparently I no longer have any pics of the tank room addition, and yes, my tank is in the laundry room facing the living room.
I'll skip past the two and a half years when I broke down the tank and turned it into a planted FW discus tank during which time I still built a custom 175 bow front and another system keeping my love for reefing alive.Now I'll quit boring you with history and get this thread up to today.
I have a 150 gallon glass sump which has a 70G refugium and 20G return chamber. The refugium is lit with four 36" HO T-5's
30G frag tank made from an old sump lit with a DIY 12 bulb LED
Bubble King 250 skimmer
Geo 624 calcium reactor with a milwaukee controller
Tunze osmolator ATO
Ranco dual stage controller for heating and AC cooling (in the tank room, which makes it nice to work in on hot days)
Neptune AC III which only controls four hydor evo 1050's and turns on/off the display LED's
DIY 168 emitter LED with 7 drivers dimmed by a home made arduino controller.
and two Tunze 6105's controlled with an old 7095 controller I recently picked up for $20.
I have the Tunze's and the AC III (two hydors at a time) synced to make a gyre in both directions for a half hour at a time.
That's about it for tonight. I'll finish with a few more recent pic's.
