reeflounge_admin
12-09-2002, 12:07 PM
1) Links to Photos of Their Tanks
http://www.coralfrags.net/mytank.htm - Description of Tank & picture.
http://www.coralfrags.net/Web%20Site%20Pics/Web%20Site%20Pics/Original/tank_shot_11-14-02.jpg
This is the latest Picture taken this morning with just the VHO's on.
2) Description of what is in the tank (i.e. LiveStock)
Yellow Tang
Powder Blue Tang
6 Line Wrasse
Mandarin
4 Tiger Tail Cukes (was two and both split)
1 Fighting Conch and 3 Queen Conchs
Blue Maxima Clam
Orange, Blue & Green Florida Ricordea
Orange/Purple & Green Yuma Ricordea
Orange, Red, Purple and Green w/Purple Edge Montipora Capricornis
5 different shades of Purple Acorpora Sp
1 Red w/blue polyps Acropora
1 Deep Teal Acropora
2 Green & Yellow Millipora
1 Green with blue tip stag
Yellow Acropora
Green Acropora Yongei
Pink Stylophra
Purple w/Green Polyp Valida
Blue Aculeus
Purple Montipora Digita
Blue Acropora
Teal/Blue Acropora
Purple & Red/Purple Tongo Mushrooms
Neon Green Torch
Hammer
Red Lobophyllia
Green LPS (Can't remember species)
Purple & Hot Pink w/Yellow Center Gonipora
Colt Coral
Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Pink and Yellow Zoanthids.
various snails, sea urchin, peppermint shrimp, red-legged hermits.
Green & Acitinic Green w/red hairy mushrooms
Acitinic Green, Red w/white Stripe and Blue Mushrooms
Red/Green Blastomossa
Green Star Polyps
Yellow Leather
Pulsing Xenia
Mini-brittle stars and tons of small sand bed critters
(Good lord! When you write it all down, it really seems overstocked!)
3) Description of Tank and all components (pumps, filters, heaters)
90g Reef Ready AGA
3/4" Seaswirl & 2 900gph Maxijets on a Red Sea Wavemaker
Mag 12 return pump
40g Custom Acrylic Sump with baffles and a small refugium
EuroReef CS6-2 Skimmer
2 - 250w Ice Cap Ballast running 14k Hamilton Bulbs
4 - 110w Uri VHO's (2 blue 2 50/50) on an Ice Cap 660 Ballast.
Pro Won II Heater
Pinpoint PH Monitor
100 lbs Live Rock on PVC Racks sitting on a 6" live sand bed
I know most people that have an sps dominated tank have a Calcium reactor and at some point I will probably add one when I have the money.
Right now I am using a 5 gal bucket filled with R/O water and Kalk that I am using as topoff. It works for now.
4) Brief Statement from you about your tank and what it means to you.
I love my tank and spend entirely too much time with it This is my 2nd reef tank. I learned a lot from my mistakes on the first one; like buying cheaper equipment, stacking rocks on the sandbed against the back, using crushed coral, not having sufficient lighting, etc.
This tank has been setup since February 2002. When we bought this tank, I decided I was going to do it right, no matter what it cost. Ouch! Boy, did it cost a lot! I mail ordered all of my equipment and livestock that I didn't have in the prior tank and tried to go as slow as possible (for me) on stocking the tank. If I had it to do over, about the only thing I would do different is get a bigger one and not have purchased the powder blue tang.
My tank actually means a great deal to me. It is very relaxing and beautiful to look at. I would have to say my tank is one of the most expensive and most rewarding hobbies I have ever had. But I can see enjoying it for my entire life. It also brings me a great deal of pleasure when people come look at it and can't get over the fact that everything in it is alive and how much effort and expense I'm willing to go through to keep them that way. It really does remind me of a living garden.
I can't wait to see what it will look like next year. And maybe I will stop rearranging it.
Chris
http://www.coralfrags.net/mytank.htm - Description of Tank & picture.
http://www.coralfrags.net/Web%20Site%20Pics/Web%20Site%20Pics/Original/tank_shot_11-14-02.jpg
This is the latest Picture taken this morning with just the VHO's on.
2) Description of what is in the tank (i.e. LiveStock)
Yellow Tang
Powder Blue Tang
6 Line Wrasse
Mandarin
4 Tiger Tail Cukes (was two and both split)
1 Fighting Conch and 3 Queen Conchs
Blue Maxima Clam
Orange, Blue & Green Florida Ricordea
Orange/Purple & Green Yuma Ricordea
Orange, Red, Purple and Green w/Purple Edge Montipora Capricornis
5 different shades of Purple Acorpora Sp
1 Red w/blue polyps Acropora
1 Deep Teal Acropora
2 Green & Yellow Millipora
1 Green with blue tip stag
Yellow Acropora
Green Acropora Yongei
Pink Stylophra
Purple w/Green Polyp Valida
Blue Aculeus
Purple Montipora Digita
Blue Acropora
Teal/Blue Acropora
Purple & Red/Purple Tongo Mushrooms
Neon Green Torch
Hammer
Red Lobophyllia
Green LPS (Can't remember species)
Purple & Hot Pink w/Yellow Center Gonipora
Colt Coral
Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Pink and Yellow Zoanthids.
various snails, sea urchin, peppermint shrimp, red-legged hermits.
Green & Acitinic Green w/red hairy mushrooms
Acitinic Green, Red w/white Stripe and Blue Mushrooms
Red/Green Blastomossa
Green Star Polyps
Yellow Leather
Pulsing Xenia
Mini-brittle stars and tons of small sand bed critters
(Good lord! When you write it all down, it really seems overstocked!)
3) Description of Tank and all components (pumps, filters, heaters)
90g Reef Ready AGA
3/4" Seaswirl & 2 900gph Maxijets on a Red Sea Wavemaker
Mag 12 return pump
40g Custom Acrylic Sump with baffles and a small refugium
EuroReef CS6-2 Skimmer
2 - 250w Ice Cap Ballast running 14k Hamilton Bulbs
4 - 110w Uri VHO's (2 blue 2 50/50) on an Ice Cap 660 Ballast.
Pro Won II Heater
Pinpoint PH Monitor
100 lbs Live Rock on PVC Racks sitting on a 6" live sand bed
I know most people that have an sps dominated tank have a Calcium reactor and at some point I will probably add one when I have the money.
Right now I am using a 5 gal bucket filled with R/O water and Kalk that I am using as topoff. It works for now.
4) Brief Statement from you about your tank and what it means to you.
I love my tank and spend entirely too much time with it This is my 2nd reef tank. I learned a lot from my mistakes on the first one; like buying cheaper equipment, stacking rocks on the sandbed against the back, using crushed coral, not having sufficient lighting, etc.
This tank has been setup since February 2002. When we bought this tank, I decided I was going to do it right, no matter what it cost. Ouch! Boy, did it cost a lot! I mail ordered all of my equipment and livestock that I didn't have in the prior tank and tried to go as slow as possible (for me) on stocking the tank. If I had it to do over, about the only thing I would do different is get a bigger one and not have purchased the powder blue tang.
My tank actually means a great deal to me. It is very relaxing and beautiful to look at. I would have to say my tank is one of the most expensive and most rewarding hobbies I have ever had. But I can see enjoying it for my entire life. It also brings me a great deal of pleasure when people come look at it and can't get over the fact that everything in it is alive and how much effort and expense I'm willing to go through to keep them that way. It really does remind me of a living garden.
I can't wait to see what it will look like next year. And maybe I will stop rearranging it.
Chris