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Bring on the FISH!
Since I have the entire day to do what ever I figured I’d start my tank build thread so here it goes.
The equipment list
210 AGA aquarium with a drilled side done by A Read Sea Aquarium in Seattle
72 inch light fixture with currently 3, 250 watt 22,000 K HQI bulbs and 4, 96 watt 50/50 bulbs and moon lights.
Some ware around 4 to 5 hundred pounds of live rock in the tank of various kinds.
I only have an inch or so if crushed coral in the bottom of the tank.
Two Sun-Sun JVP-202A power heads in the tank
Four loc line returns into the tank with flow accelerator tips
My sump/fuge is a rubber maid container inside a large rubber maid container (I don’t remember the exact sizes).
The container in the container has 40 pounds of very porous volcanic rock.
The water from the tank enters the bottom of this container and has a T on the end with pvc pipe cut at a long angle so the rock doesn’t plug the openings. The water flows up threw the rock.
On top of the rock is mangrove trees, cheto and the heater.
The water then spills over the top lip of the container.
I have a 24 watt PC light over the container.
The second large container has the SWC 200 extreme skimmer and the quiet one 4000 return pump.
From the return pump the water flows threw black flex tubing where on the side of the tank I have two UV 36 watt sterilizers mounted. The water is Td off the return to flow threw the sterilizers in parallel with each other to reduce the head pressure and then Td back together before connecting back to the manifold that goes across the back of the tank feeding the water in threw the loc line.
The list of occupants in the tank is
QTY Type
2 mated pair 3 Stripe Damsel
1 bicolor blenny
1 blonde naso tang
2 blue damsel
1 blue hippo tang
2 skumk cleaner shrimp
1 clown goby yellow
1 coral beauty angelfish
2 fals percula clownfish
2 firefish goby
8 green chromis
1 yellow eye kole tang
1 lemon damsel
1 mandarin dragonet green
2 sharknose cleaner goby
2 pajama cardinal
1 royal dottyback
1 bicolor royal dottyback
1 royal gramma
2 azure damsel
2 mated pair yellow damsel
1 yellow tail damsel odd guy out.
1 bristletooth tomini tang
1 scopas tang
1 yellow watchman goby
1 vlamingi tang
200 assorted snails and hermit crabs
1 small xenia frag
5 mushroom green (unknown name)
1 yellow soft coral (unknown name)
1 green star polyp frag
1 billion or so copepods or reef pods of some type or another.
Here are a couple of videos of the fish
This video is a feeding video
http://vimeo.com/12186436
this video is before the feeding
http://vimeo.com/12185304
The equipment list
210 AGA aquarium with a drilled side done by A Read Sea Aquarium in Seattle
72 inch light fixture with currently 3, 250 watt 22,000 K HQI bulbs and 4, 96 watt 50/50 bulbs and moon lights.
Some ware around 4 to 5 hundred pounds of live rock in the tank of various kinds.
I only have an inch or so if crushed coral in the bottom of the tank.
Two Sun-Sun JVP-202A power heads in the tank
Four loc line returns into the tank with flow accelerator tips
My sump/fuge is a rubber maid container inside a large rubber maid container (I don’t remember the exact sizes).
The container in the container has 40 pounds of very porous volcanic rock.
The water from the tank enters the bottom of this container and has a T on the end with pvc pipe cut at a long angle so the rock doesn’t plug the openings. The water flows up threw the rock.
On top of the rock is mangrove trees, cheto and the heater.
The water then spills over the top lip of the container.
I have a 24 watt PC light over the container.
The second large container has the SWC 200 extreme skimmer and the quiet one 4000 return pump.
From the return pump the water flows threw black flex tubing where on the side of the tank I have two UV 36 watt sterilizers mounted. The water is Td off the return to flow threw the sterilizers in parallel with each other to reduce the head pressure and then Td back together before connecting back to the manifold that goes across the back of the tank feeding the water in threw the loc line.
The list of occupants in the tank is
QTY Type
2 mated pair 3 Stripe Damsel
1 bicolor blenny
1 blonde naso tang
2 blue damsel
1 blue hippo tang
2 skumk cleaner shrimp
1 clown goby yellow
1 coral beauty angelfish
2 fals percula clownfish
2 firefish goby
8 green chromis
1 yellow eye kole tang
1 lemon damsel
1 mandarin dragonet green
2 sharknose cleaner goby
2 pajama cardinal
1 royal dottyback
1 bicolor royal dottyback
1 royal gramma
2 azure damsel
2 mated pair yellow damsel
1 yellow tail damsel odd guy out.
1 bristletooth tomini tang
1 scopas tang
1 yellow watchman goby
1 vlamingi tang
200 assorted snails and hermit crabs
1 small xenia frag
5 mushroom green (unknown name)
1 yellow soft coral (unknown name)
1 green star polyp frag
1 billion or so copepods or reef pods of some type or another.
Here are a couple of videos of the fish
This video is a feeding video
http://vimeo.com/12186436
this video is before the feeding
http://vimeo.com/12185304
