Tell us about yourself:

My name is Mark Peacock I am 41 years young. I live in the rain filled country called England married to my wife Jennifer and we have 2 boys Connor and Simon and a pedigree cat called Milo plus all my reef friends in my tank. I started looking into reef set up about 7 years ago when I bought a 40 gallon tank then went to 112 gallon about 5 years ago and still looking to go bigger.

How did you get involved in the saltwater hobby?

I started years ago on the fresh tropical side of the aquarium and I had always wanted to do the salt side and wanted to prove to my dad that I could do it because he did not have the patience, so now I have done it. I will never go back to tropical.

Tell us about your tank

I have a jewel vision 450 about 112 gallons and about 100kg of LR and a 3 inch substraight of crushed coral. I do not have a sump I have always used filters and do have a fluval fx5 which really does the job. I had to take out 2 sets of sponges because it was cleaning my reef to much. I have a vecton 8 watt UV and a TMC v2 1000 skimmer and catch can for skim. A 300 watt titanium heater with digital read out I have 7 power heads ... a mix of tunze and seio with a turn over in my tank of around 40 times which I find is enough, but I have ordered a power head that will do 5000 litres an hour to put in a bit more in there. Under the hood I have a 400 watt metal halide bulb off a coralvue ballast 2 x 38 watt t8s for actinics and 6 x LED moonlights for after hours. 6 x pc fans to keep warm air out of the hood, and for back up 2 x sumon 240 volts fans to keep tank temperature down on really warm days plus a pin point ph monitor and other bits and bobs.

How did you become involved with Reef Frontiers?

Before I started I wanted a site that would give me all the advice I needed no matter how stupid I might of sounded. Everyone made me feel like one of the team here and loads of you gave me good tips i.e. Krish who I took my hood design from, Damsel13 & Boomer just to name a few ... cheers guys. I am on a British reef site but find this site the best for info and friendly people.

What is your reef keeping philosophy?

One thing I have took on board is if you want a good result the first time is to read as much as you can, get loads of advice, and biggest thing of all is to take your time. Let it do it naturally.

What is your dream tank?

Great Barrier Reef outside my house or 1000 gallon tank but would have to move lol.

Do you have any advice for others?

Keep the maintenance up and for back up always keep a log of what you have done. Remember, knowing what you did is better than not knowing.