265 Gallon Mixed Reef

**creefer** · 03-02-2011, 09:00 PM

Welcome to CR!! Beautiful tank!

**Tom@HaslettMI** · 03-02-2011, 10:47 PM

Sweet tank and welcome to CR! I'm looking forward to seeing the LEDs. Also, are those 6 small fish in the center of the FTS? If so, what are they?

Thanks,
Tom

**MH_Courtney** · 03-02-2011, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by iyachtuxivm

Very nice tank! You say you are running the mp40s on your tank. How thick is the glass on your tank? Reason I am asking is I have heard that at the 1/2" mark its a gamble on the 40s if it will stay attached. Ever have any issues like that? I am looking into them for my 225.

I think the glass is about 1/2" and no problem with the vortechs.

**iyachtuxivm** · 03-04-2011, 10:10 AM

Thanks for the info! We will now need new pics with the leds. lol

**MH_Courtney** · 03-04-2011, 02:15 PM

Thanks again everyone

I have a pretty busy weekend but hopefully I can snap a few pictures. I am still trying to figure my camera out, im still pretty hit or miss.

Originally Posted by Tom@HaslettMI

Sweet tank and welcome to CR! I'm looking forward to seeing the LEDs. Also, are those 6 small fish in the center of the FTS? If so, what are they?

Thanks,
Tom

Those are red spot cardinals. We had quite a number of them but they have slowly dwindled. Every few weeks they would see to exile a fish from the group and within about a week that fish was gone. The only time we would lose one is when it would be seperated from the group.

**MH_Courtney** · 03-07-2011, 01:54 PM

I don’t think I ever explained the water change system on this tank. I have a 20 gallon high tank that is gravity fed through a solenoid to the sump of the 265. I have a heater and powerhead in the water change tank and I add salt to this tank every day after I do a water change. The water change has gotten a bit more complex since we added our frag system but I will talk more about that in another thread. I drain 10 gallons from the sump through a hose and then I flip a switch and 10 fresh gallons drains from the water change tank into the sump. The water change tank is automatically filled through a solenoid off the RO/DI unit and float switches. Having this automated system makes doing water changes a piece of cake and actually possible. I can't imagine how long it would take me to do a 10 gallon water change a day if I had to manually fill buckets.

**Sir Patrick** · 03-07-2011, 09:35 PM

The water change system sound awsome! Any chance at a pic of the whole water change set up?

**MH_Courtney** · 03-08-2011, 09:05 AM

I could try to get a few pictures but it might be a little hard to get from the pictures. My water change tank is upstairs in our "zoo"/office and is plumbed down through the floor to the tank in the family room. Later this afternoon I will be posting a thread on our new frag system which was added on to the end of this water change set-up.

**MH_Courtney** · 03-08-2011, 10:57 AM

I just posted a thread on our new frag system http://www.captivereefs.com/forum/di...-w-leds-12964/

**MH_Courtney** · 03-09-2011, 12:16 PM

So I haven't had time to take any new pictures but here are some old ones I was digging through today. A few are a little more recent but everything is still with the T-5s. I figure these should work as growth shots as well. I think the only more recent one I included is a purple/green chalice (supposed to be a watermelon but I don't have any lineage on it) and I included a growth shot with it. The first pic is from end of August and the other pic is from the middle of February.

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