My tank..after the crash *New pics 5/6*

[Jarob]

Well I will upload the pictures of setup later, but for now I have some recent pictures of the tank.

Specs:
55g total volume
8x24w T5 lighting
Mag 9.5 Closed loop
1000gph Return Pump
Phos Reactor running carbon
No Skimmer yet
Fuge
ATO

Fish:
Juv. Atlantic Blue Tang
Scooter Blenny
*soon* Baby Onyx Clown Pair from gc reef

Corals:
Wellsophyllia (MY FAVORITE)
Zoas/Palys
Shrooms
Red Cap
Xenia
Frogspawn
Candy Cane
Fungi
Duncuns
GSP/PSP
Cabbage

Maintenance:
Daily glass cleaning
Weekly 10% water change using Red Sea Pro salt
Phyto feeding every other day with pumps off
Algae sheet once a day
no more dosing thanks to Red Sea Pro

The tank has been up and running for about 3 months now, some of it was transferred from my old tank but a lot of it was just bought. About 50lbs of LR is in there, Im adding 50 more when the money is available.

[Jarob]

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[Mr Cob]

Looks great Jarob!!! Congrats!

[vman181]

Looks great Jarob!!! Congrats!

Plus 1 here.

Looking nice, real nice.

[rockmp]

looking good Jarob! Have any FTS?

[txmaverickmh]

Man, that is one incredible wellsophyllia!!!! Where did you get that from? I bet it cost a small fortune, no?

Seriously, tank is looking good and your care level is spot on! Now all you need is a he'll of a deal on a high-octane skimmer!

Michael

[dmweise]

Nice. I love the tang and the xenia!

[Jarob]

Updates:
Blue tang is no longer yellow, he is beginning to turn beige and blueish!
Added a Tri-Color Anthais
Added a Cleaner Wrasse (eats anything and everything I feed em)
Added a Mystery Wrasse (eating like a pig!)

SLOWLY but surely switching to a more SPS/LPS dominated tank, less softies. I recently went to GCREEF!!! and bought a nice GCR Tri-Color Acro as a test and its been more than happy under my T-5's and is super blue with great polyp extinsion, happy with the results I went BACK to GCR and bought the "3 pack FHI Farmed Mini SPS Colonies" for a steal of $89. The three I picked include:
ULTRA Blue Milipora
ULTRA Metallic Rose Milipora
Pink with ULTRA Green Polyp Milipora (reminds me of Pink Lemonade)

When I say ULTRA.... I mean ULLLLLTTTRRAAA bright, Michael knows!
ALL are HUGE multibranched "frags" and exhibiting GREAT polyp extinsion looking like little shag rugs.

Im considering upgrading tanks as Im moving into a new building soon, a 95g. Also a pair of GCReefs own Onyx Clowns will be added as soon as they are big enough!

PICTURES SOON!

I would like to thank all the Corpus stores for providing me with such great service and fish/corals!!!


now back to genitics studying...

[Jarob]

NEW PICTURES!!
Dec. 1st

In order:
Tank
FTS
Left Side
Right Side
Top Middle

[Mr Cob]

Nice Jarob. Very nice to look at.

[Jarob]

-Crappy pic of my ORA Red Planet, GORGEOUS in person!
-Close-up of Xenia, GSP, Aussie Duncons (left to right)
-Green Acro from Bali
-Frogspawn, Teal Palys, Kedds Reds, Purple Plate (Clockwise)
-Kinda blurrey shot of my Acro garden starting from top left: Metallic Rose Millepora, Pink with Green Polyp Millepora, GCR Tri-Color Acro, Blue Millepora

[Jarob]

-My 2" ORA Ultra Grade Maxima
-ORA Red Planet again, Blue Mille and Tri-Color peaking at top, Lunar Eclipse Palys
-My Wellso with the frag from ScropiO(sp?) in the back, the green zoas, THANKS!
-Tessellated Blenny courtesy of Diego and GCR
-Shroomin


Ill take some more pictures of the fish soon!

[Mr Cob]

Right on Jarob!!!

[Jarob]

Thanks, Im really suprised how some of these pics turned out considering im using a 4 year old POS camera.

I LOVE the first 3 pics in the last set. You can really see the green colors in the Red Planet in the 2nd one!

[jlh81]

looks very nice

[OrionN]

Very nice tank. How do you like the Atlantic Blue tang? I always love to get one but it is so strange that, living on the Atlantic coast, I never able to see a healthy one at LFS to get. How do you rate them as a large aquarium fish in term of suitability?

[Squiers007]

Looking good man, keep it up. Good luck with finals!

[corruption]

Atlantic Blue Tangs are notoriously poorer kept in captivity than their ilk from other bodies of water.. They also get to the size of dinner plates :)

Do you have future accommodations for the Tang as it grows? A 2 foot wide box isn't really appropriate here..

(sorry to be a downer, I kinda feel a responsibility...)

Tank is otherwise beautiful! :)

-Corruption

[glennr1978]

You might want to keep the red planet lower in the tank. Most people have only been able to keep the coloring under lower light. I keep mine in lower light, high flow and it holds it's colors great.

[Jarob]

The blue tang has been amazing and he was super healthy when I picked him up from Aquarium Masters. He is only about 3" right now so he has time to grow, and yes he will be put in a much larger aquarium! I got his as a juvi so I could watch him grow. He is a great fish, I have a cleaner wrasse whom is constantly cleaning him and has never had a spot of ick, and he doesnt bother ANY of the tank mates even though this is HIS tank. I rate him as a 9 out of 10, such a good tank mate and is so bright.

Glen how low do you keep yours and what lighting? I really really want to keep this coloration, its beautiful!

Thanks

[corruption]

as long as theres no delusions about a 55 gallon being a long-term home for it, I have no further problems :)

-Corruption

[glennr1978]

The blue tang has been amazing and he was super healthy when I picked him up from Aquarium Masters. He is only about 3" right now so he has time to grow, and yes he will be put in a much larger aquarium! I got his as a juvi so I could watch him grow. He is a great fish, I have a cleaner wrasse whom is constantly cleaning him and has never had a spot of ick, and he doesnt bother ANY of the tank mates even though this is HIS tank. I rate him as a 9 out of 10, such a good tank mate and is so bright.

Glen how low do you keep yours and what lighting? I really really want to keep this coloration, its beautiful!

Thanks

I keep mine ~2/3 of the way down in a 20L. I'm lighting the tank with 2x's 150w 20k mh, and 2x's 24w of actinic T5's. The lights are about 10" above the tank. Your 8 bulb T5's are probably every bit as much light as my set up, probably more actually.

[Jarob]

Snapped a few new pics tonight!

First my Zoas!!!

These are the captions for the pictures, in order.

-My Lunar Eclipse palys which was a 7 polyp colony when I went out of town for a MONTH, came back 2 days ago to it looking like this, YAY!

-My Zoa garden, from the top left clockwise: Pank Panthers, Kedds Reds, Pink Palys, Lunar Eclipse(bottom), and my Valintines Day Massacres (center)

-Shroom Garden (under consturction) with my peach yuma up top and a new "Greenbay Packers" shroom in the middle still adapting to my tank

-Some LPS

[Jarob]

-Down the front of my tank

-My new Scoly from Aquarium Masters

-My new RBTA from GCReef hiding out after moving around for 2 days

[Still Learning]

Sweet! Time for a FTS.

[Squiers007]

Nice pics man, Just let me know when you want to come and check out my tank.

[Jarob]

A few more pics:

-Some LPS
-My zoa garden
-My Valentines Day Massacre palys which were all about dead a month or 2 ago
-Acans!
-A good top down overview

[Europhyllia]

Wow. You got some nice color in there!

[Jarob]

A few more..

-Rics and a yuma
-RBTA
-Fungia sp. feeding!
-Wellsophyllia close up, gorg in the way.
-Full daylight FTS

[HoppyBunny]

That Wellsophyllia is awesome!! The tank looks wonderful!

[Gseclipse02]

if we ever get to trade i want some of the Valentines Day Massacre lol

your tank has some crazy color

[Jarob]

thanks! :)

[Jarob]

Well I had the camera out so I snapped some pictures of my tank today, its been a few weeks since the crash and everythings looking pretty darn good!

First are pictures OF the crash, the fungia before, and the fungia as of today
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[Jarob]

And here is today, the clowns are growing and my corals have been taking off.
Pardon the algae, im going bi-weekly water changes atm.

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[StevenSeas]

WOW looks awesome. Glad to see soo much recovery and growth after the crash. Your corals look amazing!!! wish i had half the stuff you do