The Incredible Reef Aquarium of Nathan Gist

21 Jan, 2016

Excerpt from future CORAL Aquarium Portrait
by Than Thein

This video above is from my friend Nathan Gist’s tank, which is a custom-built 200-gallon (760-L) that is 72″ long and 30″ wide.  (180 x 75 cm).

Lighting
The lighting used is a combination of two types of LED lighting fixtures, an older model by Aquaillumination and a custom selection of LED’s in a Build My LED strip. That strip contains mostly cyan-colored lights.

Filtration
The aquarium employs several different technologies to maintain water quality. The core filtration is a biopellet reactor and protein skimmer. The system also uses two dosing pumps to perform a continuous water change. One pump slowly extracts water from the aquarium while the other slowly deposits water from a reservoir of pre-made saltwater. Lastly, there is a second set of dosing pumps that administers two-part calcium and alkalinity additives to maintain water chemistry.

In the following video, we take a closer look at those systems that make the tank work.

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