Jim's Reef

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I created this site in order to share my love of reef aquaria, and a lot of great things I've learned over the years. Of course, I love to have people come visit my reef at my home - but most of the world lives too far away. This site will give a little picture of what my reef is all about. By nature its pretty graphics intensive - sorry for you low-bandwidth people. Be patient, its worth it.

My first aquarium was a 75 gallon reef. I had it for around 10 years, and learned an amazing amount from it. Most importantly, I learned that I love having a reef aquarium, and wanted a bigger one! I built everything on that tank myself except the glass tank (though I did build the overflow box), so I made a few mistakes and kept improving things over time. (I also helped my wife Zonda develop a lot of patience and long suffering. This gave me a lot of knowledge and some sad experience to apply to my new aquarium, which I certainly have done.

My goal in building this site was to share the knowledge I gained in planning and setting up the whole system, so rather than just a few basic facts and a bunch of aquarium pictures, I have walked through every sordid detail of the process. I tried to include all the information that people might find useful. Of course, I may have left something out, in which case you can email me.

If you are in the area, and would like to come by and see it for yourself just give me a call -  I'm also always willing to swap frags!

Here are a few basic parameters, although this info is covered in great detail within this site:

Size ~650 gallons

Temperature

79°F
Specific Gravity 1.025
Alkalinity 8 dKH
Calcium ~400 ppm
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0
pH 8.0-8.25 over the day
6x400 watt 6500K MH lights 8 hours/day
4x72" VHO actinic 12 hours/day
total circulation 7200 gallons/hour

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The Wasatch Marine Aquarium Society is a club here in Utah for marine aquarium and reef enthusiasts. We get together monthly for presentations, coral propagation, and swapping stories. We also get a newsletter, called the Sea Star. Its a great way to meet other people and share knowledge. If you live in the area and like aquaria, then come by and check us out!

 

Send mail to jperry@rockcanyon.com with questions or comments about this web site.
Last modified: January 29, 2002