Ramsey's 185+ Gallon Marine System

[ramsey]

http://youtu.be/Olx5gEVQsms

I bought two waveboxes with an apex cable dirt cheap. Just got a good size wave going.

[ramsey]

My tank finally finished cycling and diatoms died down. I started stocking the tank this week:

Various CUC snails
Pin cushion urchin
2 x skunk cleaner shrimp


Fiji yellow leather
Young bushling softie
Green polyp toadstool

10 x red spot cardinalfish
3 x engineer gobies

I really like the red spot cards. The info I found on them shows mixed success but I wanted to give it a go. They're all schooling/shoaling together and seem to be eating already (just got them today). I'll probably give them a week or two, then try to get another 10.

Pictures updated in start of thread.

[ramsey]

Since I'm a nerd when it comes to equipment and filtration, I took a quick video of my messy fish garage. I still have a lot to do. What I wanted to capture the most in the video is the cheato tumbling under the t5. It was tumbling already and I added a spare PH I had laying around and got it to tumble even more. Also, I finally got my skimmer up and it's a beast! I've never seen a skimmer make so much foam.

http://youtu.be/I4EAjeYVZw0

[ramsey]

What the heck, I'm in a video taking mood. Here are the new fish additions:

http://youtu.be/g-u8XOpD6mA

[koa25]

Ha ha. The tumble on the cheato was like perfect. Slow and even. I'm impressed man. Everything looks like a clean seatup. I wish I had a garage and wall to dedicate to something like that.

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[ramsey]

Ha ha. The tumble on the cheato was like perfect. Slow and even. I'm impressed man. Everything looks like a clean seatup. I wish I had a garage and wall to dedicate to something like that.

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Thanks man. I love having the sump in the garage but we'll see how the hot summer impacts things. I already have a chiller but it needs to be plumbed. It's a big mess right now. I still have a lot of work to do but it's fun stuff!

The cheato tumble was an accident. It just did it on it's own then I added the ph for a little extra tumble. Sometimes things turn out better than expected.

You can't be too jealous! You get to walk outside and your at a real reef! And you get to collect all kinds of cool live stock! ;)

[polarbear]

Man I love the whole schooling idea of the fish. I wanted to get schooling fish for my 90 gallon but I think its to small for them. Ill get you that coral this weekend. Maybe tonight even if I can get away for a little while.