New Rock i got for $5!!!!!!

lionfish12

lionfish12

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Please rate my tak 1-10.. 10 being the best...
Please dont joke around and also tell me what i need to add or inprove on? The fish that are going to end up in it is a tomato clown and a blue chromis i already have. They dont fight at all.
Thanks for rating my tank!
 
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sebae0

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looks like a good start to me, in time if you keep your levels good those rocks should be covered in coralline algae.
secondly, in your sig it says a 125, correct me if im wrong but that doesn't look like a 125 to me.
 
flatzboy

flatzboy

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I would say about 7.5 but we really can't see the true beauty of your tank because your digital camera does in no justice. What kind of lighting do you have? Is this tank gonna be a reef?
 
lionfish12

lionfish12

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Im not sure what type of lighting i have put a want to turn it into a reef after the ich is gone. I plan on getting a blue background today and some more rock.
Fish:
Tomato clown- have in QT tank
Green Chromis- have in QT tank
Coral Beauty- going to get
Invertabrates:
Amenone? Have- dont know what kind
Bubble tip anemone- going to get
3- snails
Corals:
Any kind that stands out to me!
 
lionfish12

lionfish12

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Also my rock i have:
30-35 lbs of Florida rock
10-15 lbs of Fiji rock
5 lbs of coral rock
PLease rate my tank....
 
chandler04

chandler04

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Yer anemone is gonna die soon. Look at the b4 and after pics. "Lisa" told u that they dont need strong light. Well, you can show "Lisa" wat happens to anemones wen they dont have strong light. Just show her the pics like I see em. Give yer anemone another week or so, then youll be making a thread saying you lost yer anemone. Dont ask y though, Im just gonna tell ya. Poor lighting and probably bad filtration. Yer rocks look nice though.
 
wocka

wocka

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id give it a 4. its a clean tank but there is just a bleached anemone and some rock. also i dont see any fish in there. update it when the ich is gone
 
chandler04

chandler04

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Bleached? So thats the term wen anemones los their color? All right, buz mine always did that. Never COULD keep those, damn hard is wat they are.
 
moraym

moraym

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Though I believe strongly that anemones require strong lighting, and amateurs should never attempt it, there is really nothing shocking about the picture. Everyone saying it's going to die because the second picture it looks straggly doesn't really know anemones. At night my anemones will pull back into almost nothing sometimes, there are some mornings my girlfriend swears my anemone is dead, and in two hours it looks like a show-winner. Mine would also look a little bleached when it pulled back, only to brown right up when it came back full force.
Although I think people are taking educated guesses at that one being completely bleached (which you can't tell in actinics) it probably is a bit bleached. But for everyone to say it's bleached and it's dying, with only seeing a night picture of it under actinics, is just looking way too hard at things to be critical of. And then the rest of you are just jumping on the bandwagon.
I used to have two LTAs in my first tank, when I was young and uneducated, but they lived for three years. In standard lighting, just a Triton strip, with nitrates almost off the chart. So if that is an LTA, and is well fed with a good regimen of chemicals (i used four or five regularly) then it can live for a long time. Not that it's the best thing to do, but it is possible, not EVERY anemone requires the strongest lighting.
Lionfish12, whereas it may live for years, it's dicey, and I would definitely look into getting a little stronger lights. If you must keep the anemone in there, pile some more rocks up and get it closer to the light maybe, and start adding some chemicals and supplements. What are you feeding the anemone?
Here's mine after three years with bad lights:
 
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