Ashton's 55 gallon

[ashton]

My tank is a 55 gallon, no sump, 2 cpr bak-pak skimmers that have been mesh modded. For lighting i have a 24 inch Current Sunpod that has a 150 watt mh that has a 14k bulb and also 2 x 65 watt actinics in it. Unfortunately that only covers half my tank so on the other half i have a PC fixture with 2 x 65 watt bulbs. Hopefully in the future when i save some money I will be upgrading my lighting. I was finally able to get some half way decent pictures so i thought I would finally share with everyone. I will work on getting some better ones and also more of the other stuff in my tank. These are a start though.

 

[ashton]

More.

ORA Pearlberry Frag

Crocea Clam

Red Planet

Acro

Chalice

Clowns & Acans

Sunburst Anthias

Tailspot Blenny

Full Tank Shot

Scarlet Hermit Crab

Undata Frag

Chalice 2

 

[ashton]

last set for tonight.

Green Plate Coral

Cleaner Shrimp

Candy Cane Coral

Clowns

Acro Again

 

[soyadrink]

the tank is looking good! Some serious growth on those acans you got from me!

 

[Red C Aquarium]

nice blenny!

 

[ashton]

Thanks Nelson those Acans are some of my favorites, I feed them every few days and they have just grown like crazy. I think now there are a total of 6 heads on it now.

Thank you ARedSeaAquarium the tail spot blenny is one of my favorites, and mine seems to like being photographed cause he is always getting in front of my corals when im trying to take pictures.

 

[Herefishyfishy]

Nice looking heathy tank and very cool stuff!

 

[ashton]

thanks herefishyfishy . Hopefully some day i will have as nice as tank as the rest of you guys out there. I'm just taking my time with it and hopefully in the near future i can upgrade my lighting and expand my sps out a bit.

 

[MC Lighting]

looks good your in Redmond not to far from a bunch of us...

 

[ashton]

Yea i've had the pleasure of meeting a few people from the boards and each person has been very generous and helpful. I always enjoy meeting new people so if you ever want to do any trades or simply just check out the tank and talk shop then let me know.

 

[Reef Setup]

No doubt, the blenny by far is AMAZING, in a nice tank to go with! cheers!

 

[tamarindthai]

you got pretty nice stuff and looking real heathy

 

[El Salvador]

Tank is looking great.

Looks like your corals are doing Great. I was looking at your sunset and it looks great for you only having a 150W MH. Keep up the great work.

 

[ashton]

thanks dang, hopefully my tank and corals will be as nice as yours someday. And El Salvador my sunset has probably had the most growth on it out of all of my monti's and even with it being under only a 150 watt mh i still have to keep it on the lower parts of the tank. But thanks for all of the compliments everybody. I will try and get some photos of other stuff in the tank soon.

 

[ashton]

here are some updated pics for everyone to enjoy.

ORA Red Planet

Garf Bonsai from Brandy, its still coloring back up, just got it friday.

Red and Green Chalice

Monti Setosa

Dragon Soul Favia not the best pic but you can see a new head that is dropping down and growing.

Acans-

 

[Rothany]

cool acans ! i got some from you those red ones .how do you feed it ?

 

[seattle989]

just throw some mysis shrimp when the polpys are extended at night.

 

[Rothany]

just throw some mysis shrimp when the polpys are extended at night.

I never really looked for polyp extension .Gotta start doing that.So they come out when the lights go out?

 

[ashton]

I would feed it pieces of the jumbo mysis and also pieces of krill and to feed it just let the polyps grab the food when they are extended. Hope the acans are doing good.

 

[Rothany]

There doing good .I just never feed them didnt know i had too.Also never say any polyp extension mabe i never looked lol