My humble little 75 Gal Tank.

[ctxmonitor]

Hi everyone. I finally got a chance upload a screenshot of my tank. I have to thank everyone here who I got frags from. Special thanks to these great guys: Jonathan, Angel, Jdepp who helped and gave alot when I started.

There isn't alot to look at.. As you see everything is just a baby now..

I just like to let everyone know hows my tank been doing. Feel feel to give me any comment.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Lookin' Good. Nice clean set up. When everything grows out its gonna look really nice.
-Kris

 

[jackson6745]

Looks very nice, clean, and healthy. I like the lighting...what is it? 1 suggestion though, you should either lower your aquascaping or remove a few pieces of rock. I made that mistake when I first setup my tank. It only ook a few months before the SPS were hitting the top of the water.
Anyway, keep up the good work!

 

[House of Laughter]

Looking good - BTW - the goby is still skinny, but alive and eating

House

 

[jhale]

Hey Tom,
the tank looks cool. As stuff fills in you'll have more options in aquascaping. I like the light too.
some of your rocks have interesting shapes as well. If you took some out as Rich said you could make some great caves and ledges.

 

[ctxmonitor]

Actually I was sort on salt so I was messing with the elbow overflow to drain water lower.. I did't have it all the way to the top of the tank. That should give me at least 5 more inches. Unless that is still too little.

The light on that setup is 2 175 XM Metal Halide, with 2 T5 Aqua Blue Plus. The thing about those blue plus is that its not giving my zoo and other coral enough actinic. So I will have to remove one of them and add an T5 Actinic blub on.

 

[ctxmonitor]

House, so did you get it to eat any prepared or frozen food?

Jonathan, did you get a mandarin for you tank yet?

 

[jhale]

I did get a mandarin. Jose gave me one from his tank.
he's a bit skinny, but I think he'll be okay. I know there's plenty for him to eat in my tank. we named him after Jose

 

[ReeferMan]

Very nice tank before you know it you'll be fragging. I love 75s my favorite tank size.

 

[nydiver]

Very nice tank, is that all live rock or some of it base?

 

[ctxmonitor]

nydiver, yea they are all liverock. There is like 40 lbs of kaelini and 40 lbs of figi. I was broke after I bought them, but they really add color and shape to the tank.

ReeferMan, Can't wait till that day..

 

[ctxmonitor]

Does anyone know how to get rid of these annoying algae?

Its covering my candy cane...

 

[marrone]

Best way is to take the coral out of the tank and pull it all off. Use a tweezer if nessasary.

 

[iceman716238]

Originally posted by ctxmonitor:
Does anyone know how to get rid of these annoying algae?

Its covering my candy cane...

OUt of all things, that is my worst fear. Bryopsis. The #1 thing that i inspect corals for. That stuff is no joke. If its only on 1 rock, throw it in the garbage and dont look back. Trust me

 

[ctxmonitor]

But its on my candy cane.. I really don't want to throw out my candy cane.. Damn.. Well I try the method of taking it out manually. But I know its impossible to get it all out.

 

[marrone]

Just take it out, pull off what you can then take either a pair of tweezers or a tooth brush and scrab and scrape it off. You should be able to get it all off just keep repeating the cleaning and in time it with all be gone. Done throw away the coral.

 

[nydiver]

nothing eats it?

 

[marrone]

Probably tangs, rabbit or foxfaces will eat it. It's probably easier just to take it out of the tank and pull it off before it spreads in the tank.

 

[spykes]

isnt there a guy on MR giving away his nudibrach eating bryosis? http://www.manhattanreefs.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=001824
kinda answered my own question there lol, but yeah i heard those nudibranches are nice workers.

 

[marrone]

With all these inverts/snail/slug it's hit or miss if they'll eat any of those algaes. I had a emerald that would eat the green bubble aglae and other that wouldn't even touch it. Some time it's just best, if you can, to remove it by hand or using a tooth brush.