My shark/ray reef tank

[rollingzep]

Hi guys have been browsing this site for a while and finally decided to join. I have a reef tank 5X5X2-I think its 300 gallons. Anyway, I have a coral catshark(now about 2 years old-and almost 2 feet), a bluespotted stingray(about 1 year old and doing grat-my pride and joy),a clown tang, 3 hippos, a naso, a vlamingi, sailfin,purple, a picus sweeetlips(my favorite fish ever), 2 maroon clowns, a flame hawk, and a six line wrasse. Hope these pictures will work. I will take more pics if any one wants to see them. Most of my fish have been in the tank for over two years. Everyone seems to get along very very well-the blue spotted is Queen of the tank and such a pleasure-I hand feed her and she is one smart cookie. Here are some pics

 

[sepulatian]

Awsome shots, welcome to the boards

 

[krj-1168]

Nice looking Coral catshark & Blue-spotted ray.

 

[caseysimp7]

send a pic of the whole tank

 

[rebelprettyboy]

nice fish in there

 

[sulley]

would LOVE to see full tank shots with the lights on to see the corals out

 

[leftyblite]

WEclome to the boards.

Please more picts of the whole tank and the other fish. AWESOME RAY!!!!!!!

 

[regina13]

The last pic is awsome! I love his eye!

 

[ric maniac]

Wow i want a ray now!

 

[rollingzep]

Thanks guys. Here are some more pics. I dont know how you guys take such good pictures.
Picture of my sweetlips after he stole the calamari from stingray

shot of the tank

flame hawk posing

naso tang which is trying to sneak in every picture

shot of one of my clams

more pics coming right up

 

[regina13]

beautiful!

 

[rollingzep]

My sailfin

the weirdest oyster I have ever seen w/ vlamingi

stingray just chillin

clown tang in his cave

newly acquired mimic tang

my other clam

 

[regina13]

Do you have a full tank shot?

 

[rollingzep]

shot of the tank with solaris lights

a couple of corals

I just love this fish

mimic tang again

one of my hippos

a group shot

another shot of the stingray just cruising

stingray during the day

my baby shark(2 years old now)

 

[cdubbs]

nice tank..i had a coral catshark for over a year and they are the easiest sharks to work with..he ate anything i gave him..only prob was he couldnt see anything during the day and when there was food in the tank if he bumped into a fish he would bite it then release after he realized it wasnt food..gl

 

[rollingzep]

He does that all the time. It is the funniest thing to see. What happened to your coral catshark?

 

[mike22cha]

Awesome tank! I love your aquascaping in the middle. What kind of lights do you run on your tank?

 

[mkzimms]

Originally Posted by MIKE22cha
Awesome tank! I love your aquascaping in the middle. What kind of lights do you run on your tank?
Thats a solaris LED fixture! VERY expensive but awesome. They allow you to run a whole year schedule of lighting cycles, mimic cloud cover, sunrise and set, lunar cycles. They put out the equiv of about a 400W MH with almost no heat. Adjustable from like 6K to 22K and they last around 45,000 hours. Google them, they're unreal.

 

[mike22cha]

Originally Posted by mkzimms
Thats a solaris LED fixture! VERY expensive but awesome. They allow you to run a whole year schedule of lighting cycles, mimic cloud cover, sunrise and set, lunar cycles. They put out the equiv of about a 400W MH with almost no heat. Adjustable from like 6K to 22K and they last around 45,000 hours. Google them, they're unreal.

 

[rollingzep]

Yes they are a tad bit expensive-but literally in the long run will save me a ton of money on electric bills. They add absolutely no heat, so my chiller never runs, steady 75-76 degrees, the coral are thriving, and its actually cool when a clouds comes by and it dims. I have two units over my tank so everything is lit. A great investment and I believe the wave of the future.