moortim
Mountain Goat
I have been around here since Febuary and I know that none of you have seen my tank. There are several reasons for this, I don't have much in it yet, I feel intimidated by all the big impressive tanks around here, I just moved, and I have been helping my tank recover from a bad previous owner.
Well I have finally stepped up to the plate! So here is my story (many of you already know how I got my tank but here it is again).
Last November I bought a complete used 55 setup from a guy with very little salt water knowledge (I worked through highschool at a LFS so I had a good start). In it was about 60lbs of old dead coral sketelons covered in algae, a 9" sailfin Tang with barely enough room to turn around at each end, an angry tomato clown, a valentini puffer, one of the most beautiful lemonpeel angels I have ever seen, a scooter dragonet, a yellow clown goby, a firetail goby, a little green goby that is currently unidentified (I am hoping for some help on that one later), a sebae anemone that was almost clear, a huge tube anemone, a small tree coral, and a mushroom rock.
For filtration he had a Fluval 404 and a seaclone 150, and for lighting he had only a 130watt pc hood.
I kept everything happy until about January while I did lots of research to bring myself back up to speed. The single best thing I think I did for my tank was to discover Aquatic Dreams in Spokane, Kevin helped me through everything I couldn't remember as well as plenty I didn't know.
I started the tank recovery process by removing the crushed coral and putting in a ssb, and getting the nitrate and phosphate under control (both were off the charts
). During this time unfortunately, the sailfin and the anemone didn't make it. I then sold off everything I didn't want for my long term plans of having clams and sps.
Before I was able to figure out what I wanted to do next fate decided for me, while I was trying to clean my skimmer and get it to work right I cracked the side of it, I figured it wasn't doing much anyway but that same night my fluval kicked the bucket, so I was trying to run a tank without any filtration! I had one small hang on the back canister filter that I threw on it to get me by until I figured something else out. Another member here (Lew90) helped by making room in his tank for my corals.
This is getting long and I am running out of time so to speed things up I bought a 29gal and made a sump/refugium had my tank drilled and built an overflow, bought my skimmer from Mark (skimerwhisperer), added an extra 100watts of pc lighting, and am currently working on a MH setup.
So enough talk here are some pictures:
Well I have finally stepped up to the plate! So here is my story (many of you already know how I got my tank but here it is again).
Last November I bought a complete used 55 setup from a guy with very little salt water knowledge (I worked through highschool at a LFS so I had a good start). In it was about 60lbs of old dead coral sketelons covered in algae, a 9" sailfin Tang with barely enough room to turn around at each end, an angry tomato clown, a valentini puffer, one of the most beautiful lemonpeel angels I have ever seen, a scooter dragonet, a yellow clown goby, a firetail goby, a little green goby that is currently unidentified (I am hoping for some help on that one later), a sebae anemone that was almost clear, a huge tube anemone, a small tree coral, and a mushroom rock.
For filtration he had a Fluval 404 and a seaclone 150, and for lighting he had only a 130watt pc hood.
I kept everything happy until about January while I did lots of research to bring myself back up to speed. The single best thing I think I did for my tank was to discover Aquatic Dreams in Spokane, Kevin helped me through everything I couldn't remember as well as plenty I didn't know.
I started the tank recovery process by removing the crushed coral and putting in a ssb, and getting the nitrate and phosphate under control (both were off the charts
). During this time unfortunately, the sailfin and the anemone didn't make it. I then sold off everything I didn't want for my long term plans of having clams and sps. Before I was able to figure out what I wanted to do next fate decided for me, while I was trying to clean my skimmer and get it to work right I cracked the side of it, I figured it wasn't doing much anyway but that same night my fluval kicked the bucket, so I was trying to run a tank without any filtration! I had one small hang on the back canister filter that I threw on it to get me by until I figured something else out. Another member here (Lew90) helped by making room in his tank for my corals.
This is getting long and I am running out of time so to speed things up I bought a 29gal and made a sump/refugium had my tank drilled and built an overflow, bought my skimmer from Mark (skimerwhisperer), added an extra 100watts of pc lighting, and am currently working on a MH setup.
So enough talk here are some pictures:
