P I C T U R E S !!!

yupi1982

yupi1982

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Hi Guys , it´s been 4 months , since i wrote my last thread in this forum,
5 months ago i lost almost all my fishes , well i am back and just want to share some of the pictures of my reef tank , and some other weird things, well, i i tought i was going to quit the hobby but i have to say that the mistakes that you do in the past come handy to the future, and that´s what happend to me, i have learned about all the mistakes i made i can say that i am not longer a beginner and that my tank is been for the last 5 months at its best. no losses and parameters have been perfect UNLESS for the f nitrates that stay always at 100 even thought i bought a refiugim.gess i i am gonna keep doing water changes.
some pictures guys !!!
CHRACTERISTICS: 1º25 g tank ´´´REEF ´´ Been stablished 2 years ago
INHABITANTS:
1 Gold band Maroon Clownfish
1 Coca Cola or yellow stripe Clownfish
1 Red Coris
6 Firefish
2 Purple Firefish
1 Marine Betta
1 Sailfing Tang
1 Yellow Tang
1 Blue Tang
1 Purple Tang
1 Sohal Tang
1 Emperor Angel :happyfish been my favorite since i start the hobby this is my second one
1 Long Nose Hawkfish
4 Orage linking starfishes
4 huge Cleaner shrimps
1 4 FOOT zebra EELl ,,,,,,,,,, reef safe,,,,,,,, believe it

and about 50 corals
enjoy!!!!

Alejandro




 
saltwater8

saltwater8

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Nice!
How do you like your Red Coris Wrasse?
I REALLY want to get one.....
And, of course, am emperor as wall.
:happyfish
 
yupi1982

yupi1982

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MORE PICS !!!
Dont ask me how could i keep 5 tangs under the same tank or 2 clown fishes wothout fighting or an adult emperor angel wothout eating my corals but weirdly how could i have an almost 5 foot eel without eating my shrims or firefishes hahahaha it´s all about the risk !!





 
yupi1982

yupi1982

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Originally Posted by Saltwater8
Nice!
How do you like your Red Coris Wrasse?
I REALLY want to get one.....
And, of course, am emperor as wall.
:happyfish

my red coris is about 4 inches , not adult yet but i love it it´s been there for about a year one of my oldest and favorite fishes in the tank. :happyfish
i dont have actual picts of it because she goes to sand to sleep at 6 pm and i took the pics tonight but i´ll post one of the old pictures for you
 
saltn00b

saltn00b

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red coris are very cool!
i dont think those tangs are pushing it for the tank, i was just curious how they all interact?
i have a 150 in the stocking process and have a similar tang list. which ones are bold, or aggressive, which ones would you put in what order if you could put them all in again ?
 
yupi1982

yupi1982

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Originally Posted by saltn00b
red coris are very cool!
i dont think those tangs are pushing it for the tank, i was just curious how they all interact?
i have a 150 in the stocking process and have a similar tang list. which ones are bold, or aggressive, which ones would you put in what order if you could put them all in again ?
well it's not an easy task but you can do it,
with the experience that i have i can tell you that yellow tangs are the most agressive and purple tags as well , then the sohal follow by the sailfing an finally the easiest is the blue tang so start with the blue tang and follow the list. you can put the last two at the same time , be carefull with the sizes try to put the latest ones not to big !-!!
but becarefull the blue tang is the easiest specimen to get ick , he will be batlinfg ick untill his inmune system controls it and adapted himself to the emviorment , mine took about 4 months to do that , now he is for sure the pririest tang in my display if yours do that he wont get ick never again ...of course he needs to eat a tons of food life mine to keep his inmune system well !!! :happyfish
 
saltn00b

saltn00b

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yea i had a yellow T once and he was a big jerk bully and even ate all of the antennae off of all of my shrimp , who then died of stress! i wont get another YT. are you saying you kept the hippo in the QT for 4 months?
 
salty tank

salty tank

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Nice! How do you keep your sea fan so large? How do you get them to grow big. Mine opens 2-3 times a day and looks great but dont seem to grow much. I only add liquid calcium to the water too. I want mine to be large like yours. TIPS?
 
whitey

whitey

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:notsure:
Just gotta say that your tank is WAY overstocked. Those tangs are small now, but that many large fish should never be crammed into a 125.
That Sohal is likely to take care of the problem at some point by taking out a few of the others.
I hope you have a home for them when they are too big in a few months.
Not tryin to flame, but honestly, do some research before putting 20 large fish in a 125 gallon tank.
The fact that no one has posted this yet is sad too.
Hope you're doin water changes every day.
Feel bad for the fish.
:help:
 
yupi1982

yupi1982

Member
Originally Posted by salty tank
Nice! How do you keep your sea fan so large? How do you get them to grow big. Mine opens 2-3 times a day and looks great but dont seem to grow much. I only add liquid calcium to the water too. I want mine to be large like yours. TIPS?

hahaha i bought it that big, it was huge , the orange is a sponge
just add white snow and keep up with the calcium
 
yupi1982

yupi1982

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Originally Posted by Whitey
:notsure:
Just gotta say that your tank is WAY overstocked. Those tangs are small now, but that many large fish should never be crammed into a 125.
That Sohal is likely to take care of the problem at some point by taking out a few of the others.
I hope you have a home for them when they are too big in a few months.
Not tryin to flame, but honestly, do some research before putting 20 large fish in a 125 gallon tank.
The fact that no one has posted this yet is sad too.
Hope you're doin water changes every day.
Feel bad for the fish.
:help:
it;s not gonna crash, they live happy and dont bother each other but what you say maybe truth , when they grow in about a year or so , i am gonna have to do something, i will buy a 470 g tank by that time , been there for 4 months being friends !!!
thanbs for the advice anyway !!
 
fishieness

fishieness

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Originally Posted by PhoenixFla
Your nitrates are always at 100? OUCH!

well..... woudl you expect anything different with 20 fish, one over 4 feet long?!
i tell you what: you lost all your fish 5 months ago and you said youve learned form your mistakes? i say your heading into another one of those huge mistakes.
but that is jsut my opinion. please dont take offence, im just looking out for the well being of the fish.
 
mikeyjer

mikeyjer

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Originally Posted by fishieness
well..... woudl you expect anything different with 20 fish, one over 4 feet long?!
i tell you what: you lost all your fish 5 months ago and you said youve learned form your mistakes? i say your heading into another one of those huge mistakes.
but that is jsut my opinion. please dont take offence, im just looking out for the well being of the fish.
I have to agree to this. That is your major contribute to nitrates, your wayyyyyy over stocked!!!! In honest opinion, you probably could get by with it by getting a good decent filtration system to go along with your fuge and probably should look into a more powerful skimmer too. But still, too many big fish for a tank that size. For my 55 reef with my small 3.5" Naso, 2 baby Clowns, 1 Green Mandarin, and 2 Green Chromis. I even feel that I am stocked. But I don't have any nitrate problems though. But I am setting up my new 90G bowfront reef ready and that's where they're all going along with my Yellow Tang that's in my aggressive tank. Then I'm thinking about putting in 2 Bangaii Cardinals and 2 Fire Fish then I'm set. Then I'm restocking my 55 reef after moving all the corals to the bowfront. It will be my grow out tank for corals and some fish for a large future tank. The thing is I mainly keep mostly smaller fish for my 90G, so I'm not over stocked. And I do know about Naso Tang getting huge, but they grow rather slow. So eventually I'll get a bigger tank for him along with some other fish in my grow out tank. :happyfish
 
murph

murph

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I would suggest a large compliment of hermits to clean up any dead carcases due to the fact that finding and or removing these will be problematic in a tank like that.
Errr.....Ok that was kind of harsh and I like to consider myself no where near as conservative or judgmental as some around here but I have to agree with them on this one. The tank is plenty overstocked as your nitrate reading is trying to tell you.
At the vary least I would forget about corals in this tank and call it a FOWLR. Even then your looking at a massive water change routine to try and maintain this tank at anywhere near acceptable levels. Over time this will be expensive and a back breaker.
I guess I am lucky in this reagard. Even when I was a kid I did not like the look of to many fish in a tank. One of my earliest memorys was of takeing some of the guppys out of my moms ten gallon tank (by hand mind you) there were just to many guppies in that tank. :joy:
Good luck.
 
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