sweatervest13
Active Member
Hi All,
I started my 125g tank on July 27th 2011... It has been a great year. I have had so much fun building this tank, and filling it with life. Although this is not my first SW tank, its definitley the largest and the most expensive project that I have undertaken. I went into this project with every intention of "doing it right", what ever that means. You can check out my build thread from last year https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/385156/sweatervests-125g-reef-build
I will say that if I had to do it over again, I would for sure make some changes... But I have always been a hands on learner, so I would not trade the experience for the world. I wanted to have a nice reef tank that I could be proud of. I really liked the look of a lot of the SPS corals, and most of the LPS corals. There are some soft corals that I don't mind but I wanted to go slow with corals and try not to pack it up with corals that I lose interest in and want to take them out (thanks Eric B 125... He went through and took out a lot of softies and went more SPS). I have some GSP and Zoa's and Polyps that I try to keep from taking hold on the rock work. I got my first SPS maybe 4 months ago (I really need to get better at getting the names when I buy them, cause I really have no clue what a lot of them are) and have concentrated mostly on Acro's, but I did get a nice sized Monti (purple). I have also found that I have a fondness to plate corals.
As for fish, I started the tank with a couple of transfers from my 29g, a clownfish and a coral beauty angelfish. I lost the coral beauty the first couple of months. I wanted something with movement and went with some blue green reef chormis. Seven to start, 1 died with in a few days of being in QT and 1 more a month later, but the other 5 all made it through QT and into the DT they went. I have a LMB, and another clownfish... I liked the look of the Bangai Cardinal, I thought about doing a pair but decided on a single. I added my first tang a few months ago, I went with a Flame Fin Tank (or a Tomini Tang, I have also seen it called a bristle toothed tang). So far so good with all the fish. No real issues. I QT all fish for 6-8 weeks. They all look healthy and eat well, my black and white misbar gets some fin nipping by the chromis, but he is a tuff guy...
Well enough of the story, here are a few (maybe a lot) pics. I know that I am no pro and to the trained eye one could see lots of issues with some corals and the tank. I will say that this tank is in a constant state of flux, and I am always working on something (excuse the background, and some white on SPS corals).
I started my 125g tank on July 27th 2011... It has been a great year. I have had so much fun building this tank, and filling it with life. Although this is not my first SW tank, its definitley the largest and the most expensive project that I have undertaken. I went into this project with every intention of "doing it right", what ever that means. You can check out my build thread from last year https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/385156/sweatervests-125g-reef-build
I will say that if I had to do it over again, I would for sure make some changes... But I have always been a hands on learner, so I would not trade the experience for the world. I wanted to have a nice reef tank that I could be proud of. I really liked the look of a lot of the SPS corals, and most of the LPS corals. There are some soft corals that I don't mind but I wanted to go slow with corals and try not to pack it up with corals that I lose interest in and want to take them out (thanks Eric B 125... He went through and took out a lot of softies and went more SPS). I have some GSP and Zoa's and Polyps that I try to keep from taking hold on the rock work. I got my first SPS maybe 4 months ago (I really need to get better at getting the names when I buy them, cause I really have no clue what a lot of them are) and have concentrated mostly on Acro's, but I did get a nice sized Monti (purple). I have also found that I have a fondness to plate corals.
As for fish, I started the tank with a couple of transfers from my 29g, a clownfish and a coral beauty angelfish. I lost the coral beauty the first couple of months. I wanted something with movement and went with some blue green reef chormis. Seven to start, 1 died with in a few days of being in QT and 1 more a month later, but the other 5 all made it through QT and into the DT they went. I have a LMB, and another clownfish... I liked the look of the Bangai Cardinal, I thought about doing a pair but decided on a single. I added my first tang a few months ago, I went with a Flame Fin Tank (or a Tomini Tang, I have also seen it called a bristle toothed tang). So far so good with all the fish. No real issues. I QT all fish for 6-8 weeks. They all look healthy and eat well, my black and white misbar gets some fin nipping by the chromis, but he is a tuff guy...
Well enough of the story, here are a few (maybe a lot) pics. I know that I am no pro and to the trained eye one could see lots of issues with some corals and the tank. I will say that this tank is in a constant state of flux, and I am always working on something (excuse the background, and some white on SPS corals).
