65 Acrylic

[SkiFletch]

lol, im gonna put a few layers of primer on it, prevent more mold.

A question for Ski, what fish do you have in your tank?

An answer for Musho:

Pair of orange skunk clowns
Solorensis Wrasse
Mystery Wrasse
Springers Pseudochromis
Leopard Wrasse
Green Bar Goby
Purple Firefish

I think I'm all set fish stocking wise. And mostly there with corals too... Really runnin out of room in the tank . The coral list is significant:

2 Frogspawns
Aussie hammer
Orange Torch
Toothed bubble
3 Pocillipora
Millepora
monti cap
encrusting monti
bunch of different palythoa
palythoa grandis
blasto wellsophyllia
elegance
cynarina
derasa clam
acans (a bunch of them)
favites brain
couple mushrooms (stupid things won't die)
xenia (again, can't seem to kill it)
blue clove polyps
and maybe more, but that's really all I can remember sitting here at work...

 

[Musho3210]

How does-

2 clowns
1 goby
1 mandarin or scooter blenny
1 midas or lawnmower blenny
1 Jawfish
2 banggai cardinals
1 Bicolor Dottyback
1 Fire fish


A nice big squamosa clam to sit in the center of the tank as the main display, i love clams


Various sps, and lps, as well as the leather i already currently have (gonna get rid of the xenia and clove polyps)
lots and lots of zoas just scattered everywhere in random spots
rose bubble tip anemone
Pincusion urchin (hate coralline)
1 brittle starfish
4 cleaner shrimp
1 pistol shrimp
Possibly a mantis shrimp in the sump


Im going to go for either a Euro-reef non recirculating, or an octopus recirculating, depending on cash, and a large refugium.

 

[Musho3210]

ok after a nice presentation on breeding and on not keeping singles, i plan on skipping the dottyback and fire fish, and getting doubles of everything except the mandarin/scooter dragonet and jawfish.

 

[n3ont3tra]

Isn't it kinda hard to pair fish?

 

[Musho3210]

Isn't it kinda hard to keep a marine tank?

I want a challenge.

 

[n3ont3tra]

Suit yourself. FYI yellowhead jawfish are pretty good in groups, even males.

 

[Musho3210]

picked up a euro-reef rs 5-3 (older discontinued model) for 100 dollars (second hand). And picked up a dual 24" PC light for 15 dollars (fuge light)

 

[kj23502]

Hi Musho!! I'm watching this with much interest!! Any pics of the entire tank or stand or anything. what else do you need before you can start setting it up? Or is it already set up?

 

[Musho3210]

i still need to clean calcium deposits in the tank (gonna spray pure vinigar on it, let it sit, then wipe it off) i still need to remove the scratches, i still need to reconstruct the baffles on the sump since the skimmer section isnt big enough for my skimmer, and i still need to do the plumbing. Luckily, i have all the electronic equipment for it. I ordered 25 pounds of marco dry rock (40-50 pounds when wet, 15 pounds tonga shelf, 10 pounds fiji) and have 25-30 pounds wet live rock.

Flow is the return pump (mag-12, about 3 feet of head pressure) modded maxi-jet (currently a 600, if its not enough i can mod my 1200) and a koralia 2.

I have a phosban reactor that will probably run carbon instead of phosphate remover, my leather is stunting my coral's growth. Euro-reef RS 5-3 skimmer, and a cheato, filter floss and rock rubble fuge.

I have about 30 pounds dry and 15-20 pounds live sand as well. The live sand will be coming from my established 20 gallon, not those dead bags of water and sand.

 

[kj23502]

wow! You have a lot of work do yet. I look forward to watching

 

[Musho3210]

Well thats the completed sump, i had to move a baffle in there to fit my skimmer, and glass on glass with silicone bonds arent exactly the easiest things to separate, i got a deep cut in my finger from my hand slipping off the blade. Well at least i got it off and re-siliconed it. Theres just leftover silicone residue everywhere though.....

 

[SkiFletch]

Now was the cut bad enough for stitches? Then you'd have true reefing battlewounds . Sump looks great, just like mine

 

[Musho3210]

oh yeah lol, well mine wont heal, i have to wait for my nail to grow out....

*thinks to self* hmm the only way to show im reefing enough is to poison myself with palytoxin it seems....

 

[Musho3210]

got all the plumbing today and the marco rock came in, man is that rock beautiful... So many holes and caves, and cherry picked to my specs.

 

[Musho3210]