My 90 Gal Corner tank

[Tommy]

Sweet fish bro. By the way you are never alone with the build, like Justin mention we made not be posting comment, but we following your build.

[betiuminside]

@ Tommy: Thank you! I know that now! thank you for the support!
Update: Bad news, the sweet lips didn't make it. After one week he passed away... He didn't really ate a lot. He didn't got sick or anything... but died RIP: Spots ( sweetlips grouper )
Also skimmer is not really skimming... it's a brand new skimmer and it's been working for 2 days. It did skim a lot of carbon dust! But junk yet... I will let it run for another couple of days...
Other than that it's okay...
The sand is still pending to add and more fish... Niger would be next... Any suggestions? Would a maroon clown would be okay? I guess I need semi aggressive - aggressive tank mates.

[CoryDude]

Also skimmer is not really skimming... it's a brand new skimmer and it's been working for 2 days. It did skim a lot of carbon dust! But junk yet... I will let it run for another couple of days...
Other than that it's okay...
The sand is still pending to add and more fish... Niger would be next... Any suggestions? Would a maroon clown would be okay? I guess I need semi aggressive - aggressive tank mates.

Dude, sorry I missed this build thread. Pretty sweet lookin' corner tank. The mixed black/white sand is super nice. I think you've got a great foundation for a really nice tank.

Any updates? Any new additions?

How's the bubble magus skimmer doing? New skimmers always take a week or two to break in. I'm assuming you're getting a nice thick skimmate now?

[betiuminside]

Hey Cory,
I totally forgot about this post!
Anyways... I am loving it... I have added more white sand and I believe it looks even better.. I think right now it's a 50-50... I am planning to add more white sand to make it 80 white and 20- black.
This will give it a very interesting look.
The skimmer is doing a very good job! The only problem that I have is when I am feeding it goes crazy and it starts skimmer super wet to the point that fills the cup half way up! I am feeding sea food mix that I did and what we got from yesterday's meeting. I thought It would not do it with the meetings food, but it did! ( I thought I did something wrong with the food I did). Usually the skim mate goes down with my previous skimmers but on this one the skim mate goes UP!
I guess I am going to need to turn it off while feeding or decrease the water volume which sucks, because I don't like to be messing with the level.

Additions or Fish list:
Emperor Angel! - CRAZY! right? well good for me, he grew on a 90 gal corner tank! So I have had not problems with him stressing out. He is very very nice and he is the king of the tank! 4-5"
One spot foxface - Same story of the emperor, he is a very good looking fish 4-5"
More craziness: Undulated, Niger and Picasso Triggers! Oh Oh!
The undulated was a bully at the beginning but they are all good tank mates right now... they do get into fights sometimes but nothing to worry about... no bleeding so far LOL... I guess that's what aggressive tank means, right?
Chain Link Moray Eel - She is a swimmer and she is very nice looking one.. Get’s a long with everybody and nobody is messing with her.
Porcupine Puffer - He is like me! Easy going and a BIG eater! He is nice to everyone and no one messes with him...
I have a couple of blue damsels which are the ones I started the tank with and another damsel, bigger bicolor; yellow and blue and has one blue spot on his top fin. He was a bully on Sherita's tank, but he is all calm in here! LOL
I am still doing 20 gal water changes every 2-3 weeks. I have not added the sand to the refugium yet.. just cheato in there...
I feed heavy so everybody is in a good behavior, because I read and heard on the MAast meeting that starvation was on of the reasons of aggressiveness. So I keep them fatty...
Next: Save money to upgrade the lights to LED's. And it's not because I am going to grow corals right now, but I want that coralline algae in there... I have no algae! nada!! Not even brown, but it looks without color.
I am looking for dead color corals... do you know where I can get some? Is there such of thing? Or they paint them?
The lights, I turn them on only 4 hrs per day and the MH only 1.5 hr per day. And the main reason is because they are old bulbs, or unknown age. And I don’t want algae blooming because of this.
And last, I had a black sea urchin but didn't make it... the triggers messed with him way too much and ended up upside down with the inside empty. RIP.
Thank you for reviving this thread!

[betiuminside]

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