My tank is about 2 years old. I've just started putting in corals a few months ago, but only really easy ones. I'm about to start adding chemicals like Calcium to help with those.
Here's what I have with a pic of the tank....
150g custom 1/2 thick glass tank with center overflow chamber on back wall.
Water overflows over the top of that down to the bottom of the tank and out thru a hole into the base of the cabinet where I have my sump and protein skimmers. The sump is made by CPR and has three chambers. First the water flows into the part with the two skimmers(one chamber each), then over flows into chamber three where it hits a fliter pad and trickles down into the empty chamber with the exit pvc pipe at the very bottom. Water flows out this pipe and out into the garage (my tank is against the living room wall that shares a wall with the garage) where it flows into the chiller and then thru the pump and back into the cabinet base. It flows thru pvc back up thru the tank overflow chamber and when it gets to the top it splits into a T and goes to the right and left of the tank, spilling back in. Whew! I hope that was somewhat clear!
For lighting I have two metal hallides and two compact flourescents. I don't recall wattages offhand but I can get a suntan every time I open that hood!
My fishies are 1 Maroon Clown, 1 Percula Clown, 1 Yellow Eye Tang, 1 BiColor Psuedo, 1 Blue Linkea(sp?) Star, 1 Sand sifting star, a whole bunch of turbo snails, a few scarlet hermits, a bunch of blue leg hermits, a cucumber (i think), a big Coral Banded Shrimp, I used to have two peppermint shrimp but I suspect foul play......and that's about it right now.
Corals...not many yet...I have a leather coral that's doing real well, a mushroom coral that is pretty much gone (I suspect too much light), a hammerhead coral that is doing well, a brain coral that is surviving, and one more I don't know the name of.
Here's a pic...more to come....
