68G cube becomes a 95G Reef :)

GreenSpottedPuffer · #1 12-05-2008, 03:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Sebae again

Dont take down the 130,put the bar in front of it.It really suits your place. I would love to have a tank like yours as a room divider and focal point.

Hmmmm...you basically said exactly what my fiance said earlier!

You guys are probably right. It is a great focal point. The problem is that focal point right now is not a very nice looking tank. Since switching it to a FOWLR and spending all my time on the reef, its gone downhill.

It would be pretty nice as a reef again and hey, no more plumbing! Its done! Plus that tank is very quiet.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #2 12-06-2008, 05:53 PM

So weird...without exception, every single acro that did NOT come from someone elses tank (which is most of them) died overnight. The one or two I got from members on here are ok but anything from the LFS I shop at died all at once. I have checked everything and all I can find that is different from a few days ago is alk. It rose from 8.3 to 10.2 I don't know how quickly though, it could have been overnight or over the past week.

Temperature, salinity, PH, Calcium, ect. stayed the same.

I just find this really strange and too bad because I have some really nice little acro frags I bought over the past three weeks.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #3 12-08-2008, 05:38 PM

What!

I moved the 68G to my bigger tank and everything looks great considering but I decided to measure my tank (I never had before) and its NOT 72"x20"x20"...Its more like 71.5"x19.5"x19.5" and thats including the glass thickness. Then I have the overflow about 2" below the water line. So when you do all the math, this tank is actually closer to 95G. Thats a huge surprise to me! For a while it was in the same room as a 180G I had and certainly did not look half the size!

Anyways, I will take pics soon. I am just building a canopy.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #4 12-10-2008, 04:19 PM

Ugh....My yellow tang has ich of course. He was QT'd when I bought him. 5 weeks. No problems, so he went into the display. The clowns he lived with were also QT'd. They went two months and no disease. He got really stressed after moving tanks the other day and now has a decent amount of ich.

I am so sick of dealing with this. I have QT'd and been so careful and still almost every tank I have ever set up gets it. I am done QTing for more than a few days anymore with this tank. If new fish look ok after a week of QT, I am not going to bother making them wait longer to go into the display.

Of the dozen or so members tanks I have seen lately, I would say all of them have very healthy looking, active fish and 3/4 of them have ich in their tank. It just seems to be such a wide spread problem.

Hopefully the small fish I plan on keeping can deal with it...

GreenSpottedPuffer · #5 12-10-2008, 10:46 PM

So this is where I am at...

Moved everything to the 95G...yeah its only 95G in the display. I was shocked. It would be 125 if I had it filled to the top but I have the water level quite low. So its a 95G with 75G sump (only about 40G water in sump though). The corals are ok but very dull after three days. The skimmer went nuts and skimmed the heck out of the water. I think its starving the sps to be honest. They still look ok but dull. I need more fish

The stand/canopy is not close to done. No doors on anything. We are choosing a stone or concrete looking tile for the stand and not sure about the canopy yet. Probably just painted though.

Here are the latest additions and tank shots.

Pair of Fang Blennies. They do not leave each others side. Sorry bad pic. I will have to try for a better one.

And the other addition that I have only seen once is this Clown Goby. I think you get an idea from the second pic of how small he is!

And the tank from both sides. Its a room divider still.

The plan now is to fill this bad boy with tiny fish! All kinds of gobies and blennies, ect. I just have to find out how well they get along. Anyone have a general rule for these small fish?

untamed · #6 12-10-2008, 11:19 PM

Your yellow tang should kick that ich. I know I have ich in my tank but my yellow tang is one of the fish that never shows any sign of it. They must have better natural resistance than something like my achilles, which always shows it to some degree.

I like the rockwork in that tank! That will look fabulous in about 1 year.

Are you planning on doing anything more with your lighting? It looks like you are lighting the reef portion with MH, but not trying to light that sandy end too much. What is your plan there?

untamed · #7 12-10-2008, 11:22 PM

Don't fang blennies feed on skin/scales of larger fish? I saw those guys the other day at JL, and I was wondering about that as I looked at them.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #8 12-10-2008, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by untamed

Your yellow tang should kick that ich. I know I have ich in my tank but my yellow tang is one of the fish that never shows any sign of it. They must have better natural resistance than something like my achilles, which always shows it to some degree.

I like the rockwork in that tank! That will look fabulous in about 1 year.

Are you planning on doing anything more with your lighting? It looks like you are lighting the reef portion with MH, but not trying to light that sandy end too much. What is your plan there?

Have not decided yet on the lighting. The pictures loose the effect but the light shimmers really nicely on the far side and is not nearly as dark as in the pics. I guess it depends on if I ever add anything to that end. Right now there are some softies that seem to have enough light but I may sell those.

The tang only had the spots for half a day and they are gone again. Well there are a few still but nothing to worry about I don't think. We'll see. He doesn't rub or seem effected at all.