75 gal. replacement up and running

[EMS503]

Here is my new 75 gallon tank, The old tank had a silicone leak and had to be replaced. Inhabitants are 4 Jewel lyretail Anthias, 1 male- 3 Females, 2 False Percula clowns, 4 Redtail Firefish, 1 Royal Gramma, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 2 Cleaner Shrimp, 1 Seabae Anenomie, Mult. Mexican Turbo snails, Scarlet Hermits, 2 Sea Cucumbers & 1 Brittle star, Had 2 of Barrys Maxima's one just died for no apparent reason the other is thriving & 3 Feather Dusters, 4 Golden Headed Sleepers.
Corals Mult. types Button Polyps, Anchor coral, Frogspawn, Trumpet coral, Torch, 2 small Anchor frags, Green, Blue & Red Mushromms, Metallic Green Brain , Moon Stone, Fungi Plate, Galaxia Coral, Green Star Polyps & Fox Coral. 5" live sand bed, 70 lbs LR, 2 402 Hagan PH & 1 301 Hagan PH, 20 gal sump with 10 lbs LR and a 15 gal Refugium reverse lighting.

[Reefland]

That looks very nice, you have every reason to be proud of it! I do have one question for you, what kind of return pump are you using from your sump? How many GPH?

Regards,

[EMS503]

The pump is a Lifeguard Quiet one, Rated at 1140 GPH.
I have this hard piped with 3/4" pvc with an inline ball valve to my return tube. I have it only opened half way as it really blows things around when opened full.

[Reefland]

So realistically your pushing about 400 or 500gph though your sump? I was just wondering, I have the same exact set-up and can't run more through my 20gal sump without getting a ton of bubbles.

Thanks,

[MtnDewMan]

Very nice looking tank ... What kind of lighting are you running? It seems to be a nice shade of blue tint fromt he picture. Nice and clean looking tank. Good luck with it.

[EMS503]

I can run this pump wide open without any bubles just to much flow, The fish and corals cant handle it.

I am running 2 - 175 watt MH and 2 - 65 watt PC Actinics stock bulbs.
I think the blue in person is a bit much The background was spray painted Metalic Blue before I put the tank up. I think that adds to the blue. When the PC are due to be changed I am going to switch them to Smart Light PC bulbs. I have this bulb (96 watt) alone on my 30 long, Much brighter, I will add the picture of this tank. (The Pacific Anenomie in this tank I have had for about 3 years.)

[radioactive]

love the aquascaping ... very nice tank , nice job !!!!