Jester's Progress On His 90 Gallon Reef Tank Upgrade

[Jesterrace]

Do you have an equipment list ?

In terms of mechanical equipment? I can made one if you would like:

Display Tank: Reef Ready/Pre-Drilled Marineland 90 gallon with Corner Overflow
Sump: 29 Do It Yourself with Baffle Partitions
Skimmer: Hydor 405 in sump skimmer
Return Pump: Jebao DCT (now DCP) 8000
Tank Heater: Eheim Jager 300 watt
Powerheads/Wavemakers: 2 1950 gph Koralia Hydor 3rd Generation Powerheads
Lighting: 2 AI Hydra 26HD Fully Programmable LED lights on a rail mount
Filter Socks: 7 inch by 16 inch 200 Micron Felt Filter Socks with drawstrings
Thermometer: Zacro Digital Thermometer
Sump Grow Light for Chaeto: CF Grow 100 watt LED Waterproof Light with added timer
Live Rock: 91 lbs Caribsea Life Rock (man made) between Display Tank and Sump
Substrate: 60lbs of Caribsea Live Sand for mix of substrate
Tank Cover: Glass/Acrylic

 

[Jesterrace]

New Grape Coral Spotlight:

 

[grantm91]

Sounds like a nice set up with some nice equipment, coolgrape coral, Ive got one too.

 

[Jesterrace]

Thanks.

My Biggest Frag:

 

[grantm91]

That's so nice, a true branching frog spawn, can't get them here at the moment (uk) I won a frog spawn on a auction but it came and its looking more like a hammer. Il just have to roll with it for now I guess,

 

[Jesterrace]

Nothing wrong with a Hammer. Love those too:

My other frogspawn update:

 

[Jesterrace]

Feeding Time:

 

[Jesterrace]

New Emerald Crab:

 

[Jesterrace]

Tried an experiment to see how my Coral Beauty Dwarf Angel would respond to a vid of a Flame Angel (think taking the mirror trick in a different direction). Here was the result:

 

[Jesterrace]

Tried a similar experiment with my established wrasses and a Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse:

 

[Jesterrace]

 

[Jesterrace]

Happy 2 year Anniversary Melanurus Wrasse:

 

[scotty81]

That is such a nice tank

 

[Jesterrace]

Thanks, I have worked hard at keeping it up.

 

[Jesterrace]

Also an update on my Pajama Cardinalfish. This guy was about 3/4 of an inch when my LFS first got him and it has grown and filled out pretty nicely now. Here it was when I first got it in my tank (it is shown in the video):

Here it is today:

 

[grantm91]

Gorgeous wrasse and happy new hydras Jester !

 

[Jesterrace]

Gorgeous wrasse and happy new hydras Jester !

Not exactly new. I have had them for a year and a half, but I do love them. Simply program and forget and they will do their job. I also love that they auto adjust for daylight savings time.

 

[grantm91]

Oh LOL didn’t realize the date when I seen that post

 

[Jesterrace]

Review of the Aquatop 300 watt tank heater:

 

[Jesterrace]

Grape Coral Struggles:

 

[Jesterrace]

Update on my Zoanthid that I got for free:

 

[Jesterrace]

Pod Poulation Update:

 

[Jesterrace]

New Bumblebee Snails:

 

[Jesterrace]

Hermit Crab keeps growing:

 

[Jesterrace]

New Coral Addition from Black Friday Sale at my LFS:

 

[Jesterrace]

Seems I can't help myself with frags as of late a couple of more additions:

 

[grantm91]

Tis the season Jesterrace very nice

 

[Jesterrace]

Tis the season Jesterrace very nice

Thanks

 

[Jesterrace]

A new year and a new eviction:

 

[penguin02]

Beautiful tank! What fish do you have in there? I just upgraded to a 90 recently and would be curious to know!

 

[Jesterrace]

Thanks,

One Spot Foxface
Coral Beauty Dwarf Angel
Melanurus Wrasse
Blue Star Leopard Wrasse
Lyretail Anthias
Pajama Cardinalfish

 

[Jesterrace]

Replaced my Longspined, here is my new Blue Tuxedo aka Pincushion Urchin:

 

[Jesterrace]

Felt like the first vid didn't do a good job showing it's true bicolor, and now it has grown out a bit, it's easier to see the light purple tips mixed in with the green:

 

[Jesterrace]

An update and overview on my 90 gallon as a whole:

 

[Jesterrace]

My son teaching my daughter how to interact with fish:

 

[Jesterrace]

Going to be experimenting with Reef Roids to assist with Coral Growth. Here is the before shot:

 

[Jesterrace]

New Duncan Coral Frag:

 

[Jesterrace]

Reef Roids Experiement Part 2 (first update) :

 

[Jesterrace]

Got a bunch of updates:

Trachyphillia (before my CB started chomping on it):

 

[Jesterrace]

Updates on my Coral Beauty Dwarf Angel

and Melanurus Wrasse:

 

[Jesterrace]

Frogspawn:

Duncan:

 

[Jesterrace]

Leopard Wrasse Update:

One Spot Foxface Update:

 

[Jesterrace]

Red Tree Coral:

 

[Jesterrace]

New Heads Forming on my Duncan Coral:

 

[Jesterrace]

New Blasto Frag:

 

[Jesterrace]

One of my Zebra Hermits showing off his impressive escape skills:

 

[Jesterrace]

Several new coral updates:

First Acan:

Second Acan (Christmas Colored):

Surprise, a 3rd Acan. This time Pink:

The Blasto that just won't stop growing:

 

[Broggy]

awesome. I know nothing about salt and reef tanks, so this is helpful for me to watch these

 

[Jesterrace]

awesome. I know nothing about salt and reef tanks, so this is helpful for me to watch these

It's never too early to start learning. I started salty but spent 4 months of research before I even bought my first tank.