I have been thinking of what to do with my 150 tank (72x18x28h). It has bulkheads in the back near each corner. I want to plan this as much as possible, and truly set up a biotope type environment, where all corals/fish/inverts are from the same region.
After re-reading John Tullocks book, Anthony Calfo's Reef Inverts, Bob Fenners' Concientiuos Marine Aquarist, Julian Sprung/Charles Delbeeks' Reef Books, Scott Michaels Reef Fishes series, i think i have the plan for the 150.
I will set up as a pacific reef top biotope. I will use live rock from that area (?walt smith stuff), with a deep sand bed, sugar fine aragonite based sand, 5-6". Plan is to have some but not a full tank of LR, most will be in the 2 50 gallon fuges, filled with LR and Macro algae grow out and a skimmer i have yet to attempt to build.
Livestock:
-Bubble tipped anemone with 5 tomato or maroon clowns.
-Sixline wrasse
-blue tang from 60 as it grows out, perhaps another local tang
-snails/shrimp from pacific region
-10-12 blue/green chromis to school in upper layers of tank
-sps corals, pinks
-tridacnid clams
-? yellow jawfish, cool, but tough to do
Plan is for closed loop system with large overall water turnover/flow but spread out well. I have 2 50 gallon agro tubs, plan is to fill both with liverock and dsb , build a larger countercurrent skimmer from pvc. I may use one of the tubs, still inline as a sps grow out tank, have not decided yet
tank to be cycled fully with live rock, then addition of snails/shrimp.
addtition of bta and clowns next perhaps month4-6.
then addition of corals
then other fish
then clams
I would love to accomadate some of the other larger fish (butterflys/angels), but don't want to overdo the bioload, or be reef unsafe.
I would love to get ideas/criticisms for my set up. Thanks all.
After re-reading John Tullocks book, Anthony Calfo's Reef Inverts, Bob Fenners' Concientiuos Marine Aquarist, Julian Sprung/Charles Delbeeks' Reef Books, Scott Michaels Reef Fishes series, i think i have the plan for the 150.
I will set up as a pacific reef top biotope. I will use live rock from that area (?walt smith stuff), with a deep sand bed, sugar fine aragonite based sand, 5-6". Plan is to have some but not a full tank of LR, most will be in the 2 50 gallon fuges, filled with LR and Macro algae grow out and a skimmer i have yet to attempt to build.
Livestock:
-Bubble tipped anemone with 5 tomato or maroon clowns.
-Sixline wrasse
-blue tang from 60 as it grows out, perhaps another local tang
-snails/shrimp from pacific region
-10-12 blue/green chromis to school in upper layers of tank
-sps corals, pinks
-tridacnid clams
-? yellow jawfish, cool, but tough to do
Plan is for closed loop system with large overall water turnover/flow but spread out well. I have 2 50 gallon agro tubs, plan is to fill both with liverock and dsb , build a larger countercurrent skimmer from pvc. I may use one of the tubs, still inline as a sps grow out tank, have not decided yet
tank to be cycled fully with live rock, then addition of snails/shrimp.
addtition of bta and clowns next perhaps month4-6.
then addition of corals
then other fish
then clams
I would love to accomadate some of the other larger fish (butterflys/angels), but don't want to overdo the bioload, or be reef unsafe.
I would love to get ideas/criticisms for my set up. Thanks all.
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