75 gallon

[MikeP]

This has been pretty empty with the exception of some rock and my niger for about a month now. I finally got around to moving everything over during the past week and a half and wanted to let everyone take a look at my aquascaping which I am oh so proud of :)

I took vinh's suggestion and consolidated my nano and my 46 gallon reef as well as the tank with my anemone into this one. I will be moving my bluespot jawfish into my old 18 gallon nano instead.

http://www.maast.org/albums/technoshaman/75gal.sized.jpg

Tank specs are :

- 75 gallon Oceanic RR
- 400 watts VHO half blue half white
- 96 watts PC half/half
- 3x maxijets on Wavemaster Pro for circulation
- 30 gallon sump with mangrove refugium area
- Eheim 1060 return pump
- Urchin in-sump skimmer
- Inhabitants - Neon Goby, mated pair of Yellow Watchmen, Regal Tang, niger Trigger, False Percula, mated pair of Bangaii's , CBS, Fire Shrimp, Hippopus and Squamosa clams, lots of LPS , soft corals and zooanthids


I had Bill M make me a 60 gallon I was going to make a tank for my jawfish but one dissapeared and I think I'm going to plumb it inline with this tank and make a seagrass refuguim instead and use my spare 250 halide over the tank.

Comments welcome!

[TexasState]

Small or big, you have some good looking tank!!!
If you can afford the heat, then you should place 2 power on each side of the tank, and let the current fight each other.

[Ed]

Looks Great Mike!

Very nice rock work.


-Ed

[Nano_Steve]

i agree good lookin tank! i noticed you have some purple stick gorgonian off to the left of the tank but what is the purple and orange sticks to the right, i have been looking for the orange piece for months now and no one can tell me what it is. it really looks great in your tank and i just want to know the name of it.

[witecap4u]

How much rock is that in there?

Do you have any problems with the Niger in there with the shrimp, and does it pick at any of the corals? I've been wanting a Niger, but dont want to risk it taking out my shrimp and corals...cs

[REEFAHOLIC]

Your tank looks awesome. Great aquascaping. :beer:

[RedDragon]

Cool, me likey :-D

[MikeP]

Witecap - the niger is a big baby and doesn't bother anyone. He's very shy but it's always possible he could turn - if you are interested in a trigger for a reeef nigers, blue-throats, sargassum and pink tails are all supposed to be the best choices - nigers are the easiest to get and are definitely plankton feeders as evidenced by the upturned mouth. Mine even does monkey see monkey do with the regal and tries to eat nori when he sees the tang do it - really cute to watch them swim together.

Thanks for the compliments - and I have about 50 lbs of rock in the main rank guesstimate and another 15 lbs in sump area.

[witecap4u]

How big is the trigger? I was going to get the smallest one I could find, when I get a bigger tank. He will probably be the last fish in also.


cs

[Sherri]

Looks great Mike....really nice placement of rock...

Sherri

[newtosa]

Ditto. Nice scaping.

[captexas]

Looks good, especially if that is only 50lbs. of rock in there! Want to come do my 75 when I get it up and going? :-D