Equipment

This is all the stuff we had to buy to keep the tank happy. We put all of the control equipment in a closet next to the tank.


- Tank - All Glass 120 Gallon (48x24x24) with Dual MegaFlow Overflows
- Stand - Custom Cherry Hardwood Stand and Canopy
- Sump - My Reef Creations 36" Reef Sump with Refugium
- Skimmer - Coralife 220G with Danner Magdrive 7 with Fractionating Impeller
- Return Pump - Danner Magdrive 1200 (~700 GPH with my plumbing)
- Reflectors - (2x) IceCap 250/400 watt Metal Halide Pendants
- Ballasts - (2x) IceCap 250 watt Metal Halide
- Metal Halide Bulbs - 2x Phoenix 250 watt 14,000 kelvin HQI
- T5 - (2x) Hagen T5 HO Retrofit kits with Reflectors
- T5 Bulbs - (4x) 48" 54 watt CoralLife Actinic
- Moonlight - (4x) Coralife 1 watt Blue LEDs
- Refugium/PhosBan Reactor Pump - DannerMagdrive 3 (350 GPH)
- PhosBan Reactors (2x) - 1 with PhosBan media, 1 with Carbon media
- Refugium Light - 48 watt Current 24" T5 HO
- Refugium T5 HO 24" bulbs - 1x Current 10,000 kelvin & 1x Hagen 6,700 kelvin
- Dosing Pumps - (2x) Bulk Reef Supply Dosing Pumps
- Heater - Azoo 500 watt Titanium
- Wavemaker - Tunze 7096 Computer Controller
- Powerheads - (3) Tunze NanoStream 6055 (1,453 GPH Max)
- Auto Top Off - Tunze Osmolator with 20 gallon reservoir
- Neptune Systems Aquacontroller Jr with DC4, DC8, pH Probe & Temp Probe
- Dell Laptop hooked to Aquacontroller via Serial Cable, Tunze via USB
- CyberPower 1000 watt UPS (battery backup for return pump + Powerheads)
- Coralife RO/DI Water Purifier (1 micron sediment, 5 micron carbon,
  0.5 micron carbon, dual DI, 75 GPD RO Membrane - Dual TDS Meter)


Water Parameters:

- Specific Gravity: 1.025
- pH: 8.2 - 8.4
- Alkalinity: 8.6 - 9.9 dKH (2.86 - 3.43 meq/L)
- Calcium: 380 - 410 ppm
- Temp: 79 - 82º F
- Nitrates (NO3): < 5 ppm