abc123d30

Great pics, I like the ship a lot

ATP

Thanks,

I got this guy yesterday One of the LFS in my are had a sale last weekends and I got him for 60 bucks

Flame Angelfish

Matt

Awesome New Additions ATP

-Matt

lorabell

Absolutely Stunning!!!!!

abc123d30

That is my favorite saltwater fish, I love it's colors!

ATP

Thanks everyone So far he hasn't touched any corals so it's good. (depending on the fish, they may nip corals. 50/50 chance)

Just got home from my LFS to get RO/DI water since I have to shut off mine because of winter. I looked at my tank and saw my naso stuck to one of the koralias. (power heads). I immediately shut off the powerhead and looked at his body and has some marks. Good thing the part of his body that got stuck was not his face or fins. He looks better now and I'm leaving the powerhead off till tomorrow. Will replace it with another mp40 soon.

ATP

umphhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The naso will probably die tomorrow. My guess is he doesn't eat as much. He eats, but not as much as the other fish. The disappointing part is that his body looks healthy. Since he doesn't look think I wasn't worrying, but now he's sick and that's the only reason I could think if. Water parameters are the same and no sign of stress/diseases.

Matt

Im sorry to hear that ATP

-Matt

vtyou

Love the frags! nice tank

-Vincent

ATP

As you can see in the 2nd pic, I have decided to go bare bottom BB doesn't look to bad. I actually like it. No more diatoms over sand They annoy me. I've also moved the other two banners from the 65 a day or two ago. (had 3 one died) They're all doing well and eat a ton. The corals are growing rapidly and I'm going to get a few more friday night. (LFS has a sale)

ATP,

aquarist48

Beautiful ATP!
Ken

Shock

Awesome tank ATP, and I agree the BB doesn't look bad at all

ATP

thanks.
I'll be going BB for all of my future tanks. (too lazy to remove them from my 65).

What SPS should I get on friday? or what color do people suggest and I'll find one. ideas?

ATP,

lorabell

It just keeps getting better and better!!!!!

ATP

thanks.

I just remove a few cups worth of GHA from my overflow lol. That's the reason I never posted the middle section of my tank. Only the sides. I finally decided to do it today. It was so discusting and some of it fell into the pipe to the sump and my skimmer was just overflowing like crazy.

The middle part contanis mainly softies because It's the part that the halides doesn't hit as much.

ATP,

agsansoo

The tank look awesome ! Welcome to the BB club. As for a coral to buy, I really like ORA corals. A little pricey sometimes, but are more hardy. Look to add color to your tank. Red's and purple are always in demand. Good job & good luck.

Shock

How's your flame angel doing with the coral?

As for a coral: montipora capricornis. Get a green one!

David C

If you want ATP, you can stop by my house and help me set up my new tank. With pictures like that, you can obviously teach me a thing or two on how to make a reef tank GORGEOUS!!!

Dave

ATP

Agsnaso-I really like ORA as well. I have their birdsnest, joe the coral, blue milipora, pink mili, and a few others. They're colors are amazing. Thinking about they're oregon tort.

Shock-my flame ngels doing great. He almost always nips at rocks, but I've only seen hip nip at an anemone once, but that's the only time. Maybe there's some food on the anemoe I don't no, but that's the only time. I do have 2 green with purple rim monti cap, 1 red monti cap, and 1 orange monti cap. They look great especially the purple rim.

David C-lol. Might not be able to help you set up, but I'll help anyone who are intereted in Reefs anytime throught the forum.

and Thanks everyone for the comments

ATP,

ATP

sadening...... my last banner fish got attacked by my flame for some reason suddenly and it looks pretty bad. I don't know what to do. Can't really cath him and put him to another tank because He's deep inside the rocks.

btw, I got a purple haze monti, but that's it. I was kind of late so a lot of the corals are gone

ATP

getting Oregon tort today

agsansoo

Those are very nice. Also remember they are slow growers, so give them time to spread out.

ATP

LOL. wanted to get just oregon tort.
Well. instead, I got an oregon tort, an australian sps thing that's going to be banned in u.s., an orange odd looking sps thing, another sps thing that looks similar to my joe the coral, and probably a marineland 300 gallon starphire front glass tank with dual corner overflow, stand, sump/ refugim We're going to see the tank either this sunday or next sunday

oregon tort:

banned sps thing:couldn't get clear picture as some sand fell out of rocks and my power head made them fly everywhere

orange thing:

Joe the coral thing:

ATP

VERY nice

ATP

btw, if we get a 300 gallon, (not sure yet) the 125 will be a FOWLR.

ATP

oregon tort is bleaching......-_-
everything was fine until yesterday. I think eitther a crab broke one of the bumpy part of the coral where the polyps comes out or either a fish nipped it. If a fish, first I would suspect is either the angel, or the lawnmower. Yesterday I saw one of the bumpy thing broke and now where the place it broke is completely white....

ATP

Oregon tort continued to bleach rapidly so I fragged it.(from 1.5-2 inch to less than half inch ) BTW, expect a 300 gallon build thread upcoming Sunday (28) evening or night

David C

Congratulations on the new build thread! Wish I lived closer so I could check it out in person

Dave

ATP

Thanks, can't wait to set it up.

Plan is to use two skimmers. ASM 400+ in the sump and with addition of an ETSS 800 with GEN-X70 outside the sump. An Iwaki 55 RLT as a return and a refugim which looks like it holds 30 gallons of water. Waterflow (not including return) will include two vortech mp40s. The lighting will be 4x110 watts VHO, 2x275 watts halides on the side and a 400 watt halides on the middle. All halides will have lumenarcs. The sides will be 275 because I just upgraded it so everything is new and on the sides, the rock will be mostly higher due to the overflows.


It has a HUGE sump. About a foot shorter than the tank. The tank is 6' long. It's a really wide tank which I like Wonder if I could put a mask and a snorkel and dip my head in there lol.

David C

That tank is HUGE! you might be able to put on the ole swimmin trunks and go for a dip

Dave