My first reef tank

[Crustman]

Saw it on Craiglist and drove 4 hours one way to buy it, break it down and then load it with the fish an inverts in my truck. Got it reset up at 4:00 am the following morning. Enjoy!
65 gallons, Lifegard Filtration, UV sterilizer, in sump skimmer, pH and temp controller. 8 lights.
Fish Foxface, clowns, clown goby, damsels, cardinals, yellow tang
Inverts, lots of mushrooms and other polps, sabellid, snails zoanthids

 

[jimmybling31]

looks nice. looks like you got a few of those pest anemones though.

 

[Sandman334]

looking good for an 8 hour drive roundtrip

 

[Crustman]

Thank you,

Nothing is in the sump. Should I put some Chemipure or something else in it. I have bio balls. Also, how hot is too hot for a reef tank? I read 78-80 but I won't be able to keep it in this range without a chiller.

 

[Crustman]

Here are the lights. Will I be able to add a Tridacna with these?

 

[Sandman334]

Thank you,

Nothing is in the sump. Should I put some Chemipure or something else in it. I have bio balls. Also, how hot is too hot for a reef tank? I read 78-80 but I won't be able to keep it in this range without a chiller.

i would put the bio balls in the sump and something to catch the beneficial bacteria for the tank. Some people feel that keeping your tank between 75-77 degrees is best.......some say 75-80 degrees. Others feel that some corals and fishes, having come from warm tropical waters, do much better at higher temperatures of about 80-85 degrees, or higher......but this is up to you

 

[Sandman334]

Here are the lights. Will I be able to add a Tridacna with these?

i dont see why not

 

[Crustman]

Thanks Sandman

 

[BIGgourami]

nice light

 

[sweeTang21]

those will not support a clam for long. In order for T-5s to be efficient enough for SPS and clam growth they should be individually reflected. Its a nice setup but if you had reflectors for each bulb, it would be 10 times brighter in the tank. Then you would have enough lighting for high light corals.

read up on T5 HO's and T-5V-HO's You will get a lot of info on them and there pros and cons of course, an you will also be able to see some tanks that are properly run on HO lighting.