sneek peek... 155g reef tank. (picture intensive)

btldreef

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okay well some of you know that me and my wife (she is always on this forum) have recently upgraded from a 40g to a 155g tank. we have still more upgrading to do but, it is running pretty stable for about a month now. we will give a full detail breakdown pretty soon but for now.... here are some pics!










more pics to come....
btldreef
buster and tommie lynn delouise's reef
 

scott t

Active Member
OMG!~! you have a BEAUTIFUL tank there... I am so jealous (lol) I love the way you have you r rock work.... again thank you for all the help you have been giving me with your advice it really helps.. Keep up the good work with your tank it is AWESOME
 

meowzer

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Very nice...it's only a month old and you have all that stuff already..WOWWWW
I like it...good luck
 

btldreef

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Thanks
I hate the blue background, but it's painted onto the tank and I didn't want to scratch the tank trying to get it off. My husband finally loaded pictures ... I have the flu so, I've been lazy.
It wasn't a true upgrade. A lot came from the 40G and it's the same filtration/sump as the 40G (which was overkill) and added power heads, which I can't wait until we get our other Koralia so I can get rid of the ugly Aquaclear. We've never done a full cycle, we've been spoiled.
The sailfin was just added on Friday and is finally starting to relax, she's a little beat up from a larger sailfin that was in the tank with her at the LFS. I really wanted a Desjardini, but this one is very peaceful, the Desjardini had ich and she eats right out of our hands, which is very cool! She was being beat up and I felt bad for her, LOL. And more importantly, she put my evil angelfish from hell in line! One puff of the fins and the angelfish knew she wasn't top dog anymore.

Do you see what my clown is doing to my once beautiful RBTA???
We're adding more rock in the next week or so, just waiting for the LFS to tell us it's ready.
 

scott t

Active Member
Very nice and sorry to hear you are sick, I hope you are feeling better soon.. Do you get all of your Corals from the LFS or do you order them on line too... The "doctors" have some nice ones.. (but i remember your comment about the "doctors" and live stock from there) or did you just mean the fish?? They have some beautiful ones here that i have my eye on when i get my tanks set up..... LoL (im already addicted and havent even gotten a tank set up how funny is that one)
 

btldreef

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Originally Posted by Scott T
http:///forum/post/3157193
Very nice and sorry to hear you are sick, I hope you are feeling better soon.. Do you get all of your Corals from the LFS or do you order them on line too... The "doctors" have some nice ones.. (but i remember your comment about the "doctors" and live stock from there) or did you just mean the fish?? They have some beautiful ones here that i have my eye on when i get my tanks set up..... LoL (im already addicted and havent even gotten a tank set up how funny is that one)

I live on Long Island so there are tons of LFS's near me. I have at least 5 less than 30mins from my house so I have not had to order anything online as of yet. I think I'm going to try SWF Anthias very soon though because my one LFS that has them always has sick ones :-( Yeah the "doctors" have really nice eye it and buy it, I've just heard bad things about ordering from them and my one friend had a really bad experience there. He orders everything from this site and always yells at me for going to the LFS's.
 

btldreef

Moderator
Originally Posted by nissan577
http:///forum/post/3157197
very amazing! i must say. are you gonna add more LR?
Oh yes, quite a bit more. There's actually 160lbs in there already. We're waiting for it to be ready at our LFS, hopefully within the next week or two.
 

scott t

Active Member
Yeah we have one place that has Live fish but its like a Co-op feed store and not very much of a selection of SWF or Corals. I will buy my tank and such there but would never buy anything live because there tanks are really like Dirty lol... Thats why i was asking and the nearest LFS that would be good is about 2 hours or so from me we do have a ***** near about 30 miles away but they are way over priced and have their sick looking fish in very small tanks and not a frag of coral to be seen.. Well i guess you learn from Exp. i they have some really nice corals on here so maybe i will stick with buying from here. (or might just try one from the "Doctors") to see how it fairs.... Thanks again for the advice!!!!!
Oh got about 8 LBS of base rock for my 14 gal how much live rock should I get for it any Ideas????
 

btldreef

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Originally Posted by Scott T
http:///forum/post/3157216
Yeah we have one place that has Live fish but its like a Co-op feed store and not very much of a selection of SWF or Corals. I will buy my tank and such there but would never buy anything live because there tanks are really like Dirty lol... Thats why i was asking and the nearest LFS that would be good is about 2 hours or so from me we do have a ***** near about 30 miles away but they are way over priced and have their sick looking fish in very small tanks and not a frag of coral to be seen.. Well i guess you learn from Exp. i they have some really nice corals on here so maybe i will stick with buying from here. (or might just try one from the "Doctors") to see how it fairs.... Thanks again for the advice!!!!!
Oh got about 8 LBS of base rock for my 14 gal how much live rock should I get for it any Ideas????

I had about 16-18lbs in my 14G. But some were very flat shelf pieces that I had added up to hold corals.
I have friends in the Kingston area that all order from here because there's nothing decent up there. It's nice that this site was a 15 day guarantee.
 

btldreef

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Definitely will be posting more pics before the weekend is over since we added more rock (FINALLY) and more coral (frags) and more fish (yay!) Still need to add more rock, but LFS still doesn't have any ready for us
So here's our stock list as of now:
Fish:
2 Ocellaris Clowns - mated pair
1 Blonde Naso Tang
1 Sailfin Tang - she eats from my hand!

1 Coral Beauty Angelfish
2 Yellow Watchman Gobies - mated pair (I think they're going through a trial separation right now, LOL
)
1 Yellow Clown Goby (there's supposed to be 6, who knows where they went)
1 Green Spotted Mandarin
3 Female Lyretail Anthias - babies (LOVE THEM!) fairly certain one is changing into a male
1 Longfin Fairy Wrasse
1 Black Combtooth Blenny
Would like: will not be adding any time soon (probably no more fish, if we do add, it will be a year from now at least)
Royal Gramma or Purple Firefish or Fridmani Dottyback or Neon Goby (blue neon)
Corals:
Pink Birdsnest, Blue Acropora, Red Monti Cap, Pink Trumpets, Duncans, Fox Coral, Branching Frogspawn, Regular Frogspawn, Torch, Pagoda Cup, Purple Flowerpot, Green Flowerpot, Sun Coral, Candy Cane, Branching Hammer, Cat's Eye Bubble, Trachyphyllia (green and purple), Favia (maroon and green)
Blastomussa, Mint Cloves, Daisy Polyps, Cotton Candy/Pink zoos, Red Lobo, Fuzzy Green Mushrooms, Purple Pimple Mushroom, Blue Mushrooms, Purple spotted mushroom, Blue Branching Lobophyllia (rare), A million misc. zoos, Purple Acans, Orange Jubilee Acans, Red Xmas Acans, Rainbow Acans, Tons of misc. Polyps
Definitely will be adding an Elegance very soon (along with tons of other corals)
Inverts:
Rose Bubble Tip Anemone
2 Green Bubble Tip Anemones
1 Mini Carpet Anemone
5-10 Astrea snails
5 Trochus snails
7 Cerith snails
5 Nassarius snails
7 Blue Knuckle Hermits (5 little, 2 giants)
2 Scarlett Hermits <-- waste, they always get killed by the blue knuckles
5 Mexican reef hermits
2 Peppermint Shrimp
2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (probably will add one more)
2 Sand Sifting Star fish
tons of brittle starfish that came as hitchhikers
1 Porcelain Anemone Crab
Additional info:
Running an ASM G-3 Protein skimmer with upgraded pump (7000)
2 36" Nova Extreme T5HO set ups w/ upgraded bulbs as well as LED lights (slowly adding more and more)
40G sump, 1 Koralia 4 Power head (will be adding another, probably a 2 or 3) 1 Aquaclear (it's getting replaced, they suck, don't buy them), Mag 7 pump - we are planning on upgrading our sump/pump/overflow set up to a dual overflow with a bigger pump and sump as our xmas gift to each other (awwwww!)
None of our fish fight. It's a very peaceful tank. We had issues with our Coral Beauty until we added a fish larger than her, now she's fine. Our tangs will even eat off the same seaweed clip together.
The Coral Beauty does NOT nip at any of our corals, nor has she.
Although our mandarin eats pods in the rocks, we also spot feed tigger pods weekly. We do not have a refugium attached to the tank.
Our anemones do move around a little (a very little). They have yet to sting any of our corals. Our power heads are NOT covered. (I would prefer they were, my husband will have no part of it)
New pics soon, PROMISE!
 
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