Pics of my 58 gallon reef...*graphic intense*

[JFish1]

58 gallon reef...

-400 watt radium under spider light reflector running on PFO HQI ballast
-Custom sump
-MR-1 beckett skimmer w/ waste collection
-Skimmer run with Sen900 pump
-CR-1 calcium reactor
-24 inch CPR aquafuge refugium hanging on back
-70pounds of Kaelini LR
-300 pounds total sand
-Auto top off ultra life and 18 gallon resevoir
-Sen 900 return pump with 1/2" circle flow assembly used as spray bar
-2 maxi-jet 900's
-2 maxi-jet 1200's

Inhabitants:
inverts:
-sebae anemone
-2 cleaner shrimp
-various snails-turbo, nassarious, strombus, nerite
-a few staghorns various colors
-a few acro's verious color and shape (round, table top)
-yellow polyped gorgonian (non photosynthetic)
-biege polyped gorgonian (photosynthetic)
-a few monti's-cap and digitata
-yellow porites
-orange zoo's and jade centered brownish/red/purple zoo's
-2 maxima clams
Fish:
2 percula clownfish
1 scott's fairy wrasse

Feed about 10 different kinds of frozen foods including homemade (not my home...reef club member made it)
I dose with either DT's or home cultured phyto (again from other members of reef club occasionally)

If there is anything I'm missing that you'd like to know just ask...Here are some pics for your enjoyment:

Here's the front of the tank.

This little cage around the top of the tank keeps my fairy wrasse in.

Here's my photosynthetic gorgonian

Here's my non photosynthetic gorgonian

My two perculas and there sebae anemone

Here's my newest addition: a super male scott's fair wasse

Red/pink table acro recieved same day as wrasse

Teal staghorn (used to have bright blue tips before light failure lasting a week

My awesome bright blue maxima clam

orange capricornus just attached and starting to grow

a cool staghorn I got at the LFS

two shots of a millepora I got from a fellow reef club member

Another shot of my new wrasse

and an acro crab I got a cloe up of

I hope you enjoyed...Sorry for so many pics if you have a dial up

John Martin

 

[Anonymous]

Very nicely done there John!

How long has your tank been set up?

Louey

 

[JFish1]

It has been setup since June...I know that is a little fast for most people...especially those that advocate waiting 6 months before introducing anything to let the dsb establish. I am probably at the point where maybe just a couple more corals will go in as I have plenty in there and want them to have room to grow. I have 3 fish in the tank. for a couple of weeks I had 5 citron gobies but removed them because they were eating my acros and my green acro is suffering badly from it...I'm not sure how well it will recover. The only fish I may get is a neon gobie or some other type of gobie...maybe a sand dwelling one like a watchman or maybe even a bluespot jawfish...

But for now I wont be adding anything for a month or two since I just added 3 corals and a fish since a lot more than expected comes home after a reef club meeting.

Thanks for the comment,
John Martin

 

[JFish1]

I realize it is hard to see detail in the full view because of the size...

To see an enlarged view (I don't want to have a huge pic on the forum) go to the link below:

http://www.johnsaquatics.com/frontlargenovember.JPG

Enjoy,

 

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you off to a good start!

I'd ask around about the watchman and blue-spot jawfish. I've never had either, but with the size of their mouths (adults), I'd be concerned that they would dine on shrimps that you may want to keep in your tank.

Just food for thought!

Louey

 

[Reef Guy11]

Very nice tank. I love the Wrasses and your acro's are awsome looking. i can wait for my tank to look like that. well anyway keep up the great work there.