The tank is a 75 gallon tall acrylic, 48x15x24.
Skimmer: (skel's gonna yell at me) Remora w/bubble trap.
Filtration: Fluval 404 cannister filter (looking to replace this with a sump/fuge in the near future) 60 pounds LR: 45 Fiji 15 Marshall Islands. 4" dsb
Light: Coralife aqualight 2 actinic, 2 normal colored bulbs. 260w
Current in the tank is provided by a pair of aquaclear 802 powerheads. I'd like to replace these with the smaller and more streamlined maxijets in the near future as well.
Currently, I am using tapwater treated with prime and IO as my salt mix. Considering switching to Kent salt instead, but an RO unit is on the way.
Inhabitants:
3 green chromis
1 lawnmower blenny
2 ocellaris clowns
12 cerith snails
3 bumble bee snails
2 fighting conchs
23 nassarius snails
1 emerald mithrax crab
1 queen conch has been MIA for about a month, I fear she may have shuffled off her mortal coil. This would be the only death in the tank since I began stocking.
I had some neat hitch hikers on my rock. I have two baby brain corals, about the size of a pencil eraser on the rock, these baby brains were completely bleached when I found them. Within a month, they started growing their algae back. One I have positively identified as a neon green blastomussa merletti. The coloration on this coral is neat because it is a lighter green to the outside edges with a darker green toward the center of the pineapple slices.
The other might be an open brain, I'm not entirely sure and I don't have access to a camera that will zoom in enough on that rock for a good shot of it right now. I also have an encrusting porites that came in on my LR. All of these corals seem to be doing well and have grown since the rock was placed in the tank. The baby brains swell at night, and the encrusting porites puts its polyps out constantly... so far so good. *keeps her fingers crossed*
Along with these hitch hiker corals, were a couple of channeled cerith snails (these things are COOL looking), a tiny white starfish which I just found last night, a whole ton of feather dusters, two moon sponges and two unidentified clams.
I am working on posting an online gallery of pics of the tank on my website.. but I'll post an older whole shot of the tank (while it still had crushed coral in it and was clear of algae blooms) along with some pics of the animals.
Future stocking plans include packing the tank full of LPS, shrooms and maybe a softie or two. Fish, a fairy wrasse (when I can figure out how to completely close the top of the tank) and a male/female pair of bellus angels. I'll get around to adding more animals after I deal with the water quality issues (that I clearly have due to the HUGE algae blooms going right now) and finish getting the gear in the tank the way I want it.
Skimmer: (skel's gonna yell at me) Remora w/bubble trap.
Filtration: Fluval 404 cannister filter (looking to replace this with a sump/fuge in the near future) 60 pounds LR: 45 Fiji 15 Marshall Islands. 4" dsb
Light: Coralife aqualight 2 actinic, 2 normal colored bulbs. 260w
Current in the tank is provided by a pair of aquaclear 802 powerheads. I'd like to replace these with the smaller and more streamlined maxijets in the near future as well.
Currently, I am using tapwater treated with prime and IO as my salt mix. Considering switching to Kent salt instead, but an RO unit is on the way.
Inhabitants:
3 green chromis
1 lawnmower blenny
2 ocellaris clowns
12 cerith snails
3 bumble bee snails
2 fighting conchs
23 nassarius snails
1 emerald mithrax crab
1 queen conch has been MIA for about a month, I fear she may have shuffled off her mortal coil. This would be the only death in the tank since I began stocking.
I had some neat hitch hikers on my rock. I have two baby brain corals, about the size of a pencil eraser on the rock, these baby brains were completely bleached when I found them. Within a month, they started growing their algae back. One I have positively identified as a neon green blastomussa merletti. The coloration on this coral is neat because it is a lighter green to the outside edges with a darker green toward the center of the pineapple slices.
The other might be an open brain, I'm not entirely sure and I don't have access to a camera that will zoom in enough on that rock for a good shot of it right now. I also have an encrusting porites that came in on my LR. All of these corals seem to be doing well and have grown since the rock was placed in the tank. The baby brains swell at night, and the encrusting porites puts its polyps out constantly... so far so good. *keeps her fingers crossed*
Along with these hitch hiker corals, were a couple of channeled cerith snails (these things are COOL looking), a tiny white starfish which I just found last night, a whole ton of feather dusters, two moon sponges and two unidentified clams.
I am working on posting an online gallery of pics of the tank on my website.. but I'll post an older whole shot of the tank (while it still had crushed coral in it and was clear of algae blooms) along with some pics of the animals.
Future stocking plans include packing the tank full of LPS, shrooms and maybe a softie or two. Fish, a fairy wrasse (when I can figure out how to completely close the top of the tank) and a male/female pair of bellus angels. I'll get around to adding more animals after I deal with the water quality issues (that I clearly have due to the HUGE algae blooms going right now) and finish getting the gear in the tank the way I want it.
