265 Gallon Mixed Reef

Welcome to CR!! Beautiful tank!

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

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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.

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

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

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.

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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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...ice9-10-10.jpg
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...n/_MG_3069.jpg
Yellow torch
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...n/_MG_3053.jpg
Copper banded butterfly
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...n/_MG_3094.jpg
Green Millie
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...illi5-3-10.jpg
Green Slimer and Xenia
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...imer5-3-10.jpg
Hairy Mushroom
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...rymushroom.jpg
Female Maroon Gold Strip Clown
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...le05-03-10.jpg
Midas Blenny
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...nny9-10-10.jpg
Mixed Zoos
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...as08-31-10.jpg
Acan
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...an9-10-104.jpg
Orange Digi
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...gi08-31-10.jpg
Acan
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...can2-12-11.jpg
Sun Coral
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...al5-14-103.jpg
Female Crosshatch Trigger
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...e08-20-102.jpg
Xenia
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...a11-14-105.jpg
Yellow Tang
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...ng11-14-10.jpg