Awsome!!
Could you share what your setup is like? sump & equipment wise, heater, pump, UV, skimmer etc??
THANKS
Bought a used 210g full setup from DeepRed's contact when I decided to shut down fishroom to turn back into spare bedroom.
Sold off stand, sump, skimmer, return pump & AqualightPro 150s that came with the tank. Basically kept tank only.
Built heavy duty solid wood stand (74" long x 36" tall by 25" wide) out of 2x4s & 2x6s, screwed & glued together with metal L-brackets in the corners. Tank is 6' x 29" tall x 2' wide).
Dual Megaflow overflows go down into a 75g sump holding a EuroReef RS250 w/ Sedra 9000 pump. Water then flows over first baffle into mid-chamber with remote deep sand bed container & extra live rock & LR rubble & chaeto macroalgae for nutrient export, then under 2nd baffle to a Sedra 9000 return pump.
2 x 200w EboJager heaters (use 2 smaller ones instead of 1 big one in case of malfunction). Unplugged heaters till the autumn. Temp stays around 78F. Max 82F because by then I have my 12000btu portable air conditioner on in the summer to lower temp. Without AC, tank may go to 86F or higher by mid-summer.
Return flows through 80w (dual 40w) Aqua UV sterilizer before returning to the display.
Lit by 6' 3x250w Double ended Metal Halides (14000k Aquaconnect bulbs or Phoenix bulbs) with 4x96w PC actinics & 4x1w blue LED moonlights built-in.
I supplement lighting with 3 clipon lights with 42w 6500k Phillips Daylight Compact flourescents.
Have probably 200lbs of LR in the tank, 20+ fish, 50+ species of corals, 5 green bubbletip anemones & 1 Orange Rose bubblletip anemone.
Corals are split about 50:50 between SPS (hard corals) and LPS (Large polyp Stoney corals). Only a few softies (mushroom & zoanthids) as well as a few photosynthetic gorgonias.
Full retail, it would probably cost over $10,000 to replicate this complete setup with livestock & corals. Most of the corals are worth at least $50 each and some are probably worth over $100 each.
I dose with Kalkwasser, Calcium & Magnesium. Occasionally, add Iodine (Lugol's solution) and Alkalinity buffer.
The fish are fed probably 5+ times daily, including usually 2 full stheets of Nori for all the tangs. Mostly fed pellets & fozen mysis/bloodworm mix.