wax32
Active Member
Here is a current shot of my 70 gallon which has been up and running since being restarted 10-7-05 after Hurricane Katrina killed it.
Fish: Dascyllus trimaculatus, Chrysiptera cyanea, Synchiropus picturatus, Cryptocentrus cinctus, Halichoeres iridis, Salarias fasciatus
Coral: Discosoma spp., Zoanthus spp., Protopalythoa spp., Montipora verrucosa, Favia sp., Xenia sp., Pachyclavularia violacea
Inverts: Trochus sp., Astraea sp., Nassarius spp., Cerithium sp., Calcinus tibicen, Calcinus elegans, Calcinus laevimanus, Clibanarius tricolor, Mithraculus sculptus, Paguristes cadenati, Fromia milleporella, Ophiolepis superba
Lighting: 380w of VHO (bulb change overdue)
Filtration: Penguin Biowheel 350 (GASP!) hanging on the side of the tank, the return flows from left to right.
This is a reef-ready tank. Water goes from my overflow to my sump (nothing in it but some live-rock rubble for pod production) and back into the tank via an Eheim pump.
I run no skimmer and have no sand-bed or "mud" in the sump. The sand-bed in the display ranges anywhere from bare to 3" deep. (The blue devil tends to move it around.)
I have no powerheads or other flow generators besides the return from the penguin.
I try to do weekly water changes, but it is probably more like monthly. I don't dose any additives.
The Trochus snails began with me adding maybe 5 large individuals when the tank was first set up. The have bred repeatedly in the tank and now I have maybe a hundred or more small to medium sized ones. They have totaly out competed the Astraea snails for food, I have maybe 2 or 3 of them left from the few dozen I added back at the beginning.
Any questions?
Fish: Dascyllus trimaculatus, Chrysiptera cyanea, Synchiropus picturatus, Cryptocentrus cinctus, Halichoeres iridis, Salarias fasciatus
Coral: Discosoma spp., Zoanthus spp., Protopalythoa spp., Montipora verrucosa, Favia sp., Xenia sp., Pachyclavularia violacea
Inverts: Trochus sp., Astraea sp., Nassarius spp., Cerithium sp., Calcinus tibicen, Calcinus elegans, Calcinus laevimanus, Clibanarius tricolor, Mithraculus sculptus, Paguristes cadenati, Fromia milleporella, Ophiolepis superba
Lighting: 380w of VHO (bulb change overdue)
Filtration: Penguin Biowheel 350 (GASP!) hanging on the side of the tank, the return flows from left to right.
This is a reef-ready tank. Water goes from my overflow to my sump (nothing in it but some live-rock rubble for pod production) and back into the tank via an Eheim pump.
I run no skimmer and have no sand-bed or "mud" in the sump. The sand-bed in the display ranges anywhere from bare to 3" deep. (The blue devil tends to move it around.)
I have no powerheads or other flow generators besides the return from the penguin.
I try to do weekly water changes, but it is probably more like monthly. I don't dose any additives.
The Trochus snails began with me adding maybe 5 large individuals when the tank was first set up. The have bred repeatedly in the tank and now I have maybe a hundred or more small to medium sized ones. They have totaly out competed the Astraea snails for food, I have maybe 2 or 3 of them left from the few dozen I added back at the beginning.
Any questions?
