Photographer: James Wiseman

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Setup Philosophy: I got back into reefkeeping after a long hiatus with the intensions of utilizing the simplest system available. As I got into keeping different corals all I wanted to change was what absolutely needed to be changed to successfully keep those specific corals. For example, lighting is actually the only part of this system that's been changed. From start to present day. It is a very simple system and I do have the essentials for keeping the corals and fish healthy. Easy, simple and efficient.

Tank Size/Age: Tank is a 120g Reefready. This tank was setup in January of 98 and has been keeping sps corals exclusively for the last 1 1/2 years.

Lighting: My light system consists of 2 250w 65k Iwasaki's with a PFO ballast, 2 96w Custom Sea Life Power compact actinics.
These are suspended in a custom canopy hung from brackets on the wall behind the tank and on S hooks to allow me to raise or
lower as needed.

Filtration: Approx. 200 lbs. Fiji LR, a 2" LS and crushed coral bed. The tank came with a ProSeries wet/dry with stock skimmer and I've removed the bioballs. Main circulation is 2 Rio 2100's for the dual returns and 1 Rio2100 and 2 Maxi-Jets 1200 plugged into a Natural Wavemaker strip on 45 sec. intervals. I really do like the current this provides.

Calcium/Alkalinity Supplementation: I drip kalkwasser 3-4 times per week via a float switch and this maintains it at 450ppm. For alk. I use Kent's ProBuffer as needed and it stays around 10-12 dKh. The kalk. is added to all topoff water. It also uses a chiller.

Fish: All fish purchased at local fish stores

• 8 green chromis purchased 3-7-98
• 1 mandarinfish 11-25-98
• Red Sea purple tang 3-17-98
• Centropyge argi 2-3-99
• Neon spotted goby 3-5-98

Corals: My sps corals I have made an effort to acquire captive-raised frags or colonies and have only a few wild colonies that were my first sps. I have got these from trades with hobbyists around the country and right here at home through our MARSH club members. I have also purchased captive-raised frags from hobbyists also. The wild colonies were from lfs's.

Oldest fish/Coral: My oldest fish is the Neon spotted goby thats been in my care since 3-5-98. Its a beautiful fish and is also right in there, age wise with my other fish. My oldest coral is a wild colony of acropora that I got from a lfs that is the most blue acropora I have ever seen. Even with Veron's new books I still can't identify it.

Feeding/Maintenance: Foods my fish are fed daily are frozen brine& mysis shrimp soaked in Selcon every morning, Formula Two & Prime Reef flakes as snacks and Lifeline green in the evenings. The tank is fed with DT's and Kent's Phytoplex 2 times weekly. Water changes are 5 gal. weekly done every Monday with the help of Keith Gay of Aquatic Designs due to my bad back.I scrape the glass, if needed, in between. As far as any other additives I use Reef Solution daily.

This tank has been a workhorse as far as the load it sustains of corals and the few fish it handles. With the addition of my new 180, I wanted to have the corals I was going to put in it already here and housing them in the 120 until they were ready to be moved. It has proved able to do it wonderfully. It houses approx. 30 colonies of acropora, montipora, stylopora and different varieties or color morphs of each and too many frags to list.

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