My 6 month old tank system.

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My 6 month old tank system. AIO system.
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Looking great, tell us more about your system
Humble beginnings and still, its my second tank which is the 260L tank with a 22L internal sump on the side (4 compartments ). Almost a year old.
My smaller tank is a nano at 150L, 3 years old ( covid inspiration) boyu protein skimmer and external dophin canister filter plus the rest..
I have a third tank ready and cycled for one Lionfish, just got to find/buy one.

So my pride and joy so far.... the 260L. (probably a Nano)
In the sump (4 compartments ) and wavemakers
I have a return pump 1600L p/h
eheim heater 300w and cooling fans hooked up too a stc-1000
boyu WG-428 internal skimmer
small internal filter with charcoal & floss
lots of media and filtration sponges and floss
lots of live rock or pebbles in my case in my sump
wavemakers x 3 SEBO Wavemakers the small ones

The Tank (overstocked by the way):
Fish-

1 x Lawnmower blenny
1 x Flame (Dartfish)
2 x Overfed Saddleback Clowns (5cm a Pair)
1 x 5cm broken Filefish ( doesn't know what Aptasia is) and yes I do have but under control
1 x Pajama Cardinal
2 x blue / green chromis
About 8 Turbo snails
4 x Blue legged hermits
About 5 big and well fed glass shrimp
About 3 serpent starfish
And all the regular critters one would expect

Corals, live rock & substrate:
Corals:
Lots of different GSP
Pin cushions x 4
Pipe organ coral rock x 1
Assorted mushroom types at least 15 and different colors
1 x Montipora red plate
1 x green Montipora plate
1 x Jedi Mind trick
Pulsing Xenia 2 x rock colonies
2 x bubble tip anemone, well looked after by the clowns
2 x Kenya tree
different types and colors of Palythoa
1 x feather duster
a few zoas, don't like them much
some types of leather corals, cant remember the names
1 x 4 head green purple tip hammer
1 x 3 head green purple tip hammer
there are some others but cannot recall now

Temp is +/- 25,5
ph 8.3
ammonia/nitrates/nitrates etc normal
salinity 0.025
assorted frozen food, seaweed extreme and flakes for the fish
corals I give a varied amount of brands at least once a week ( Aquaforest AF Growth Boost, Reef Plus, Hikari Coralific and various assorted frozen foods)

My Lighting:
An ati 4 bulb unit with 2 ATI Coral plus and 2 ATI Blue Plus all 54w, daytime lighting
Sundown i have one Ati Blue plus 54w and a 1 x 2 -600cm blue led unit.
Night time all lights out

There is plenty I have not mentioned but please feel free to ask. I'm a minnow (small fish big sea) in this so please don't be harsh.
Regards
Kevin
 
Today my tank is looking awesome, perhaps the winter change ( but i Live in PE all 4 seasons in one day).
I know one day I will be able to afford lens filters etc too show off the real and most beautiful colors.
This is plane jane version, much more stunning in reality.
 

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will be moving home in 2 months as well, don't know how I'm going to get this right,
Already shut down one tank and need to move 2 tanks at least 15km to my new home!
Any info, knowledge and help would be very appreciated.
 
will be moving home in 2 months as well, don't know how I'm going to get this right,
Already shut down one tank and need to move 2 tanks at least 15km to my new home!
Any info, knowledge and help would be very appreciated.
I have done this twice before, One word of advice is to leave the tank for last, so you can focus solely on it, instead of having to fill water transport things etc while your wife is asking you to carry the dishes to the kitchen etc....

Once the tank is running, have some seachem stability on hand to add to the tank to help with getting it going again.
 
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