Skinz78's 75g reef

[skinz78]

I have a standadrd size 75 gallon reef that has been up and running since about Aug 08. It has a 29g sump underneath with a Octopus Nw 150 skimmer. I have a Ehiem 1262 return pump on it. In the tank I have a Ocean runner 6500 with a in tank closed loop hooked to it. I also have a Koralia #4 and a Maxi Jet 1200. For lights I have 2 x 175w MH with 14K bulbs. 2 x 54 w T5 with 420 nm bulbs.

FTS

This little guy just split, his other half scooted across the tank where I can't get a pic of it.

His other half.

And that is a start. If you want the whole 32 page and going build thread you can see it here.

 

[Myteemouse]

aUG 08 thats a good looking tank for only a 6 months!!
Well done!

 

[brady816]

^^^^^^^^^^^^

I agree with you there very nice tank and corals for sure!!!!

 

[skinz78]

Thanks, it was much more colorful I had approximatly 15 show clams in there and they caught a disease and all died. I am re building my clam population in a seperate tank now. I plan on starting to re introduce them in about six months time of the last clam death.

 

[skinz78]

Here is a video of my reef

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BWdog_mCHE

 

[skinz78]

I just picked up some nice corals and fish from the Shark Reef. Eric just got a huge shipment in. I also did some re aqua scaping and plan on doing a pic update this weekend.

 

[skinz78]

Ok update time. Sorry my photos are so small this go arround, my photobucket screwed up when uploading them and downsized them.

I decided to pick up a tube anemonie. This one is black and the center tenticles are flourescent green striped.

A crummy top down of my big frogspawn. It is located in the back of my tank and hard to take pic's of from the front. It is kinda bleached but slowly recovering it's color.

One of the new brains. Possibly Trachyphyllia radiata?

The biggest of my 3 bubble tip nems. They keep splitting.

New Scolymia.

Old lobophillia new location up off of the sand.

Old Blastomussa Wellisi and old candy cane coral.

New Lobophillia

Old unidentified brain, possible just pineapple brain?

Maze brain that I found fallen down into the rocks, he's having a rough go now.

 

[skinz78]

War coral.

The middle sized nem out of my 3

Right side of the tank

Middle of the tank, this is where I reaquascaped. I made the rock on the left come out to the front of the tank more and then made a bit of a gully in the rock so it has more of a 3D effect. I also took my huge piece of tonga branch and made a bridge across the gully. It is very hard to see in this pic. I can't get a good pic of it.

Left side of the tank

Blastomussa Wellisi.

My littlest bubble tip nem, it is only about 3/8" dia. I have circled it but it is almost impossible to see.

My new Lamarks Angel, I think he just got plucked from the ocean. I can't get too close to the tank to take a pic of him or he hides. This pic is from across the room zooming in.

Finally the FTS..... By looking at these pic's I will need to take new one's and upload them to 640x480. These pic's suck, sorry.

 

[skinz78]

Well I took a bunch of pic's today so I figure I would post them up. Nothing much has changed with the tank as far as operation wise. I tried to do some mods to the sump and baffles but I ended up breaking the baffle the other nite so it isn't pic worthy anymore. :banghead: Other than that just add Kalk water, do water changes, feed and it is on autopilot.


War coral, I almost lost this guy, it lost a war with one of my Acan's in a rock slide. Almost grown new polyps over 100% of the damaged area now. I have had this coral for over 3 yrs now.

Blastomussa Wellsi.

Open brain.

Blastomussa Wellsi.

Button coral, I just got this guy and it had a hard go at acclimating to the lights but is bouncing back now.

Open brain.

Candy cane.

Open brain.

In the background there is another open brain, frogspawn, and Blastomussa Merletti.

Pagoda cup that I saved from my LFS, they said it was dieing. I looked at them and said ya think that the long tenticle nem that is 3" away may be stinging it. They said nope it is dieing. LOL looks pretty alive to me.

 

[skinz78]

If you look real hard you can see another Blastomussa Wellsi and an Acan Lord in the background.

These Palys are acting wierd.

Right hand side

Center

Left hand side

The SPS frags I just got from Chris&barb.

There are 3 of the frags in this pic, I don't know the names.

The one green guy I glued to the overflow.

The other green guy I glued up on top of the rock pile. And yes that is my urchin packing arround my frogspawn :lol:

And the stag, I placed it as low as possible and it is growing like mad now.

 

[skinz78]

Here are some shots of my 3 nems now.

The biggest at 1.5 to 2", still in the 75g

Middle sized nem at about the size of a quarter, in the 12g

And the little guy just smaller then the middle guy, in the 75g chillin with the brain, nobody is getting mad yet so I am gonna leave them and see what happens.