• I made the stand from 2 X 4's, 4 X 4's, deck screws, and galvanized brackets all purchased at the local Home Depot. The reason for this method is that it can be completely disassembled to move it. Because it needed to be so sturdy (must support 6,000 lbs.) it became too heavy and bulky to move in one piece
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• The pump on the left is a Dolphin Aqua Sea 4500. It is the main circulation device. It feeds 4 - 3/4" Sea Swirls and can deliver 3600 GPH @5' head.

• The next pump is a Iwaki MD55RLT to power the Gemini ETSS 800 skimmer.

• The pump on the right (between the skimmer and right side sump) is a Iwaki MD100RLT which returns water from the sump through the end of the tank at the surface to provide surface gas exchange. It delivers 2000 GPH @4' head.

• This is the Korallin C3002 calcium reactor. My calcium levels run 380-420 ppm. I would recommend using a reactor for anyone keeping a large amount of SPS corals. I also now run a kalk reactor.

• *Update: I added a second reactor chamber built by Geo (shown on the right) to meet the ever increasing demand for calcium by my corals.

This is the new sump/refugium I installed 8-24-02. It has a 112 gallon capacity (40" x 36" x 19"). It is lit by 2 - 110W VHO 50/50 bulbs. It was built by Barr Aquatics.

The lighting consists of 5 - 400W Coralvue 10,000K mteal halide bulbs driven by PFO brand HQI type ballasts. For the dawn/dusk effect I have 8 - 95W and 2 - 160W URI VHO actinic bulbs driven by IceCap and URI electronic ballasts. 1080W actinics + 2000W halide = 3080W total. I run the halides for 9 hours. The 160W actinic bulbs run for 14 hours and the 95W actinics run for 12 hours.

I added a larger skimmer 12/04 because my fish and corals have become much larger over the past 3.5 years. It is a Barr Aquatic SK4200 dual beckett design driven by a Iwaki MD100RLT (2000gph). It is working very well so far :)