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#1 ·
Ok I've decided to put my tank on here... first time so here i go.

Started in 2003 and it was mainly a fish only tank. i don't have any pics of that because my computer quite on me so i'm using my wifes for now. 2007 i had a 25g full of my 55g that i had to take down due to many moves :cry:.

25g setup

issues

The fish.

Nem

Then at the beginning of this year i decided to start adding my new stuff...(this was after i moved the tank to my wifes apt before we got married this Oct. :-D)


Porcelin crab(love him)

 
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#2 ·
The tomato chased my poor girl good one day, and my bigger false perc died. and still added more.

I can't seem to find the lawn mower blenny pic, but i had one.

Oh and many many snails
 
#4 ·
Hiered some help

Finally July had some around (or june can't really remember) and it was time for the 55g
Cycled and pulled live rock from 25g and stacked and moved clown to 55g and got it a friend

I then lost my blenny and my yellowhead jawfish(he's fast so i used the flash to get a good shot)

Corals were doing great

Zoanthids were moving quite nicely


Birdsnest


Gargonians

 
#6 ·
Time has gone by and my Gargonians suffered some red slime and then i got that taken care of with chemi-clean and then it started dieing for some reason. cut off what's alive and re-mounted the new frags

Then something happened to my tank and it almost cost me all my softies
before

after

They still look pretty pathetic, but my toadstool is looking great!

as are my zoanthids
before

after

it's up to 30 polpys now and i started with 5 i think in sept! 8)
 
#7 ·
a club member gave me this frag, you remember it right and it died?

well to replace it i bought this yesterday at a LFS and we got a good deal on it because it was during a club meeting :-D
Elkhorn montipora

the temporary place for the other zoas

my little clown hosing the wall.... glass whatever
 
#9 ·
I am having issues with my alk right now it's just at 8dkh and i'm using a buffer to safely pull it back up. it was at 7 before, i don't know if you can see it, but on the right of my birdsnest it bleached because of it.

Thankfully nothing else is suffering because of it. i guess that's what i get for being too lax with my testing.
 
#10 ·
The new new spot for the zoas

New FTS

Fun with my 25g

The zoas given to me for my 25g

i have a devils hand frag and some GSP in there as well i'll get some pics of them up tomorrow. It's going to be a softy tank i think, but we'll see.
 
#12 ·
btw, sorry for the big pics and lack of info, any questions please feel free to ask me. also sorry some are blurry, many of the pics are before i got a little better at photo shooting and i don't use any photo editor, i don't even have one so those are my true colors of my fish tank and corals.
Side shots woot!
Left angled shot

Right angled thot

Left Side shot

Right Side shot

Ok, i'm done... for now.
 
#13 ·
Wow, you have a large collection there! Nice setup and I think you're doing a good job with all of it.

I've always wanted to start a Saltwater aquarium, but I lack the funds xD.
 
#15 ·
The hard part is getting the start up, my tank set up (stand, canopy, tank, lights) all came out to about $300 because of the great deals i found from my local club. Thank you very much and i'm going to try to get more pics up weekly or when i have a change.
 
#16 ·
I don't have a sump yet, i plan on building it out of acrylic or perhaps just using a 20g long? idk, but the skimmer for now is a skelter, i'm wanting a euro reef, but we'll see what the funds and the wife will allow.
 
#20 ·
looking great.

id get that gorgonian into more flow to prevent algae growth.

and the GSP, IMO should be isolated. i personally keep mine on the sandbed away from rocks. it will grow like a forest fire and you will have a hell of a time trying to remove it from any rock it consumes.

keep the pictures rolling.
 
#21 ·
thanks, the gargonian have been moved to a higher flow area in that last shot of them and they have great polyp extention now, and the GSP have been moved to the sandbed on a rock that i want them to blanket. i was thinking of getting them to cover the back glass... a wall of green waving in the flow??? what do you think?
 
#22 ·
back glass... a wall of green waving in the flow??? what do you think?

ive thought the same thing before as i have 2 different color variations of GSP myself.
if you do it please post progress pictures lol.

the only down fall i could think of would be that it eventually creeped onto the sides and finally cover the front...you wouldnt see much in the tank :cry:
 
#23 ·
I moved the Purple Monit-cap and mounted it to a rock close the where some of my zoas are.



and here's a better shot of my Thick Branch peach Birdsnest (seriatopora stellata) and where it RTN'd. you can see the polyp extention so it looks a bit healthier


Then i noticed my Eklhorn Montipora is doing something wierd it's kinda going white on the ends. any thoughts?
 
#26 ·
I just read on Liveaquaria that the faster growning corals like this one will turn white on the ends and it's normal. I'm not too worried, but i am considering fraging it and bank it with a club member just incase i have an issue...:-?
 
#25 ·
my 55g has...

Paired Fals Perc
75 snails
3 Peppermint Shrimp
Purple Monti cap
Red Monti Cap
Devilshand Leather
Toadstool Leather
Xenia
Watermelon Zoanthids
Orange Zoanthids
Elkhorn Montipora
Canary Porites
Orange Scroll
Pink Birds Nest
Peach Birds Nest

25g has...

Tomato Clown
Porcelin Crab
2 Blue leg Hermit crab
Peppermint Shrimp
Devilshand Leather
Xenias
electric orange Zoanthids
Green Star Polpys

I guess that's not too bad...
 
#28 ·
i missed it sorry, and i've seen a tank with the entire top of GSP so i think i can keep it under control.. it'll be a lot of fragging in the end, but i think it'll look good and i will post pics of it8)
 
#30 ·
For my 25g i'm thinking of adding
Double nuclei Orange recordia
Lawnmower Blenny
5 Nassarius Snails
Caribbean Callimorph
3 Single Green Ricordia
Florecent Green Zoanthids
4 Virgin Nerite

Any thoughts?
 
#31 ·
I'm not a reef keeper, only have a FOWLR for now... so I can't comment on your suggested coral additions.

but I encourage you to get some nassarius snails! Those guys are so cool to watch, they stay buried in the sand most of the time with their "noses" sticking up and out of the sand like snorkels. As soon as you put food in the tank, they all come busting out of the sand and running around like mad searching for morsels! They have really big feet too, and move pretty quickly for snails. In summary, they are my favorite snails :p
 
#32 ·
I'm not a reef keeper, only have a FOWLR for now... so I can't comment on your suggested coral additions.

but I encourage you to get some nassarius snails! Those guys are so cool to watch, they stay buried in the sand most of the time with their "noses" sticking up and out of the sand like snorkels. As soon as you put food in the tank, they all come busting out of the sand and running around like mad searching for morsels! They have really big feet too, and move pretty quickly for snails. In summary, they are my favorite snails :p

i agree, they are fun to watch. i call them elephant snails :-D
they come out of the sand in search for peanuts :lol:
lol, actually they are meat eaters, so when you feed they're on the prowl for some left overs.
 
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