The 65 Reef

The 65 Reef

The 20 Predator

The 20 Predator
With new lights & corals

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Bubba My frog fish R.I.P
Flame angel and a bunch of corals
Bangai cardinal,ear sponge, cleaner warsse(blur) and some more shrooms
Christmas tree worm rock
My red lanka star and one of my larger metallic mushrooms as well as my closed kenya tree coral
My seahorse Pookey, R.I.P holding on to one of his favorite round things

Giant feather duster worm and my open red brain coral
Tomato clown in his anemone
My blue tang
My two Corcea clams with star polyps in between
Royal Gramma next to his cave below the frogspawn coral and a bumpy mushroom coral.
My electric flame scallop
My cleaner shrimp next to some Xenia

The set up in words

My 65 gallon Reef Tank
Equipt.-
Filtration: Fluval 405 with surface skimmer and turbo twist 9w UV sterilizer(only runs when needed), CPR PRO 60 Refugum w/skimmer run by rio 800
2 Hydor Koralia#3 pumps(850GPH ea), about 90lbs live rock and 100lbs live sand.
In Fluval:live rock(3 tray spaces), Renew(2 spaces), phospure(one space), and chemipure Elite(2 space).
Lighting: 2 retrofit quad 96w Power compacts, retrofit 175 wt metal halide and 24 hour. lighting system with built in LED moon light, and high power cooling fans.
Other: 300wt Titanium heater with external heat control, Prime 1/10 Hp Chiller(run on rio3100), pinpoint wireless thermometer(reads both tanks at top and bottom levels)pinpoint digital ph monitor,titanium aquarium ground probe.
80 lbs live rock, most from a ten year old system, as well as 45lbs of live sand from same system
Added elements:Kent; coral accel, coral vite,Tech-I, Essential elements, Tech-CB buffer system,marine-c, andmagnesium, strontium, iron when needed. Weiss; blackpowder, marine fish vital, immunovital, coral vital, and spectra-vital.
Food:
Fish; mysis, brine, algae(green,red,brown), spirulina brine, ocean, silversides, whole krill. enriched with Kent garlic-Xtreme, zoe marine , and Selcon.
Corals; phytoplan, Dt's live phytoplankton, and Coral plankton.

Fish: Tomato clown, yellow watchman goby, royal gramma, bangai cardinal, Geometric Anthias/hawkfish, lawnmower blenny, Mandarin fish, scooter dragonet(soon to be replaced), (flame angel soon to be replaced), sixline wrasse, Diamond Goby, Court Jester Goby, blue tang, purple tang(tangs get along and are being monitored in size and will be moved to a larger aquarium when they get larger.

Inverts: 2 cleaner shrimp, hermits, margareta snails, 25+ trochous snails, purple Hawaiian duster, yellow dwarf dusters, Christmas tree worms, 2 coco worms, countless stometella snails, and an emerald crab.

Corals:, Galaxia coral, pulsing xenia, pompom xenia, Xenia elongata, var. mushrooms, green star polyps, snake polyps, finger leather, green eye favia, neon octupus frogspawn, trumpet coral, toadstool(scarcophyton), encrusting gorgorian, red cap montipora, Purple Haze acropora, portes corals, button zoos, clove polyps, various rhichordias, Orange and yellow lobe brain, Green Hydnophroas, colored zoos, and various other polyps.

20 gallon Predator tank
Emperor 400 bio wheel,150 wt heater, 25 lbs live sand, 30 lbs live rock.
chemipure elite, carbon, and live rock for filtration.

Fish: Coral beauty, yellowtial blue damsel, red spoted sand pearch, Dwarf Fuzzy Lionfish
Inverts:electric blue leg hermit, leg hermits, throcus snails, hawwian feather dusters, purple feaher duster.
Corals:Toadstool leather, button polyps, neon octupus frogspawn, trumpet coral(green,blue, and green eye brown), devels hand leather, Xenia elongata, pompom xenia,, star polyps, red open brain, Alviapora, and various different mushrooms.
Macro Algae: Calurpa, chatomorphia, money penny.

My 20 gallon Predator Tank

Video of my 55 reef