Reef Aquarium Intro/Recap

Hey guys.

This'll be the first post on my tank. I wish I did a complete build thread when I started the tank, but oh well. Here I'll give you some background on the tank.

The aquarium is a saltwater reef tank and it's been running for 9 months as of right now. The display tank is 12 gallons. It has a sump in the stand that is 10 gallons.





Livestock (Fish):

• False Percula Clownfish - 'Perky'
• Scooter Blenny (Dragonet)
• Small Blue Leg Hermit
• 2 Turbo Snails
• 5 Nasarius Snails

Livestock (coral):

• Mushrooms
• Pink Xenia
• Leather Tree
  
• Branching Hammer
• Branching Frogspawn
• 5 Acroporas: Birds Nest, Purple Tricolor, others I don't know their name . . .

Equipment in/on the tank (currently) includes:

Lighting:

• 2 x 24 watt T5 VHO - one 18K white and the other actinic (they both run 10 hours each day)
• Dual LED moonlight (This runs for 2 hours before and after the T5's run)

Filtration:

• 14 lbs. Live Rock
  
• (Drumroll please . . . the Beast:) Reef Octopus NW-150 Protein Skimmer [rated for tanks up to 150 gallons]
• Marineland canister filter: I run carbon and GFO in this. But I currently am switching over to:
• 2 x TLF Phosban Reactors - one for carbon and the other for GFO (run by a rio 90 pump)

Mechanics:

• Water movement is accomplished with 2 koralia nano powerheads
• Return pump: Quiet One 5000 - pumping about 125gph up to the display tank
• Auto top off - from AutoTopOff.com - connected to a aquaclear 20 powerhead
• CPR Overflow - rated for up to 300gph
• Heater is some $20 glass heater
  
• Computer fans for lights and water cooling

Dosing:

• Only kalkwasser is dosed at this time for pH stabilization at night. I drip only at night with a Kent Marine Aquadoser

Controllers:

• (On it's way!) ReefKeeper Lite - Level 1 - I will be controlling the heater, fans, and powerheads with this. PH's will be wavemakers.