67 gallon rimless

[saltybalz]

Tried to take a break and just keep a 20gal but that was short lived(6 months). Found a really cool tank for the right price so back in it I am. I am gonna take a stab at running a sps dominate tank relying heavly on natural filtration and a decent fish load as invert foord source (besides lighting)to hopefully in the future produce a well running simple and healthy sps domintated reef tank. In my break I took a lot of time to more or less relearn everything I thought I knew about coral and fish husbandry. Hopefully with my new found knowledge I can achieve my goal. Thanks for looking.
Tank/sump
67 gallon rimless solana: 48"x18"x18" (low iron glass)
30 gallon sump(10gallon fuge in sump)
1.5"drain and .75"return with mag12
.75" locline returns with flow inductors
Filtration(mechanical/bio)
Nac 3.5 bubble mag
10 gal fuge in sump which will house roughly around 20lbs live rock and 20lbs live sand
70+ lbs live rock in display and roughly 80lbs sand
cheato/macro algae in bubble trap baffles
Circulation
2 mp10 on left anb right hand panes
Lighting
4x48" T5 ho retro w/ icecap 660 ballast
Supplimentation
? (currently am going back and forth between three brs dosing pumps for cal, alk and mag, or running cal reactor, suggestions please)
Controller
Digital Aquatics Reef Keeper lite

A few shots of tank when i first got it and up to when i began cycling May 23rd 2012
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http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/photobucket-50751-1338411395426.jpg
Rock work pics/Clearer water
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/photobucket-3797-1338411385856.jpg
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/photobucket-4018-1338411367246.jpg
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http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/photobucket-4027-1338411387587.jpg
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/photobucket-6951-1338411396325.jpg
Thanks for looking, any feedback is much apprecitated, good and bad(besides my spelling, Im a mechanic not an english teacher)

[jessegarcia28]

very nice tank man,i love the rimless look with the neutral color background & the black sand for some contrast.
great start
have fun
jesse

[saltybalz]

Made a few changes and added some new friends to the mix. What started as a projected sps tank has now turned into a softy and lps tank at the request of my lady. Im ok with it, im #&*@$ wipped as hell.
FTS
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/016.jpg
Right side
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/022.jpg
Left side
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/023.jpg
Just some randoms
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/018.jpg

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/017.jpg

[fresh2120]

I remember when this tank was for sale.

It looks good

[jessegarcia28]

WOW! great progress man + i love your newest (yesterdays;))coral additions
have fun
jesse

[saltybalz]

Right, good thing you wanted a dog, my lady thanks you for letting go of the torch. I guess i could just call this Stevens 67gal rimless with jessegarcia touch. Thanks again man, everything is lookin fat and happy.

[Dizzle21]

Glad to see my old 67 is back up and running ;)

[specvjeff]

Looking good! Welcome to the rimless tank club!

[saltybalz]

Thanks, I love the look of a rimless tank.

[saltybalz]

[IMG]Glad to see my old 67 is back up and running , Nice, i was womdering if the original owner was still on here. Thats the kind of cool thing about fish tanks in SD, they ususally make there rounds with people from this forum.

[saltybalz]

Nothing too new just took a video with my phone. Hope evryones having a good one.
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/th_photobucket-25080-1342663458087.jpg (http://s1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/?action=view&current=photobucket-25080-1342663458087.mp4)

[saltybalz]

Not much new, just moved a few things around and am gonna try and post a front tank shot once a month so i can kinda try and keep track of progression. Let me know what you think. Thanks for looking.
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee477/saltybalz/photobucket-13062-1343751481615-1.jpg

[saltybalz]

Well after a hard fought and lost battle with dictyota algae I had to swapp most unifected rock from my sump to my display and put all rock that was cover with it down into my sump, hope it stays in my sump, could be a good macro algae. Pretty much took down the whole right side structure and rearannged a few things. Did give my fish more swimming room. Moral of the story....I HATE DICTYOTA!!!!!!!!
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