My 45 Gallon Mini-reef

My Mini-reef is a replacement for my old 10 Gallon nano-reef. It has about 45lbs. of live rock, a mixture from Florida, Marshall Islands, Gulf of Mexico, Fiji, and who knows where else. It also has 4lbs of live sand.

LiveStock

the fish in this tank has been removed.

7 Turbo Grazer Snails (I have seen many tiny snails crusing around as well)
Mushrooms, ranging from 1/4 inch to 1.5 inches.
Polyps of various sorts.

My hardware setup is:

Lighting

1 10,000K 175 Watt MH light in a custom reflector
1 30 Watt VHO Actinic

Filtration

Custom PVC skimmer
A pretty conventional design, just a four-foot length of four-inch PVC with a 3/4" feed run from the tank's surface skimmer/pump into the top, and a tap-off on the bottom with a ball valve and siphon break. It works like I didn't believe, though...
The skimmer is fed by one 500GPH pump.

The tank has been running since october of '96

As soon as I can, I'll scan in some pictures, so everybody can see what a mess I've made.