Silentcivilians 120G Predator Tank

[silentcivilian]

Sooo.. the last couple weeks have just been a watch and let grow thing.. and then it happened.. I went out with Lorenz0 to do a drop in of a few stores and see whats kickin around town... and there is new stuff in my tank.. HOW DOES IT HAPPEN??

haha.. ok, so pics:



I love my Ricos, and I dont see alot of Blue//Purple Ricos around.. so I had too..



Some of you may be familiar with this little man.. often called the superman Rhodactis... so nice.. have 3 heads in different places around the tank.. hoping to find a bowl shaped peice of live rock to put them in so they kinda stay together



Cup coral.. ive been looking for a peice of this for a long time.. and with my flower pot starting to suffer.. Took a gamble to see if my tank could sustain it as ive had great sucess with my carnations but not so much with flowerpot, I have a killer place to put it and hopefully have it spread like crazy!



Lastly, a new clam from red coral from the $40 section.. as I had a really bad clam experiance in which my tank is now recovered from and wanted smaller and hopefully a happier clam.. its lived past 24hours so fingers crossed it stay happy and mantle out as it is now.

Future plans:

Have a sump under stand now, have the eshopps hob overflow, and a Rio return pump for about 700gph at 4ft height.. want to setup a electrical cabinet to hide electrical since sump, water change tank and ATO will take up that space under stand.

Parts still needed: Plumping parts (going to run flex intake, hardline exhaust), new skimmer(currently HOB), cabinet for electrical (Ikea should have somthing), ATO unit with pump... thats all I believe..

Stuff ill have to part with, both Aquaclear 110's, PSK100H Skimmer by eshopps which sadly I love and its been soo good on the tank.

But the plan is in motion.. ill have pics when up and done

[kien]

Originally Posted by silentcivilian

.. and then it happened.. I went out with Lorenz0

awww.. spring romance. So cute.

Oh and nice grabs!

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by kien

awww.. spring romance. So cute.

Oh and nice grabs!

[lorenz0]

Originally Posted by kien

awww.. spring romance. So cute.

it was the perfect day. we even split the superman rhodactis frag lol

[silentcivilian]

So, the updates can resumes.. its now april.. Sump is almost ready to launch.. have all baffle measurements, pickup glass on monday at lunch, and hopefully hopefully have it setup this weekend..

But here is the updates -- New Additions: Pink sun coral, Figi Foxface, various Zoas and a reconstructed zoa island as the old one bugged me. Here are the photos, still ziploc shrimp feeding the suns, as I know barely any LFS feeds sun corals often enough.. its took my 6 months to get my oldest one to come out every night.. its seems like the bigger head of suns like I have, take so much longer.

Here is my NPC collections.. Orange grouping sun colony, Black branching sun colony, Giant grouping clear sun colony, Giant grouping Pink Sun colony, Orange and purple gorgonia, white and purple carnations.




New zoa island setup



Foxface:



Foxface defensive stance #223251 - Opponent -- Yellow Tang of Timidness



Moodshot and topdown shot of Ibox;

[silentcivilian]

Ok. So its been a busy last couple months. Went from 7 years at Ford to the new service manager letting me go 15 minutes before vacation, to now starting at Infiniti. The total opposite of domestic. After a month off Im kinda ready to work even though a couple weeks were in Hawaii diving in Kona.

With all this change and time off I decided I didnt want to do a mixed reef of coral and fish. Wanted to focus on predator fish as I was reminded in Hawaii how awesome those fish are and just how much interest I have in them.

So last week the tear down began, and the rebuild started. First the corals went, then the fish. I kept two of my fish, one due to he doesnt conflict with the furture tank mates, the other based on need and he isnt too small yet. So kept my Figi Foxface and my cleaner wrasse.

This is what I was left with, ill take a new photo tommorow cause a slight rearrangement happened on the left side of the tank.



Here are the new tank mates





The only corals left in my tank are my dendros, sun corals, gsp and jasmine polyps.

But im loving it.

[silentcivilian]

Ok, some more photos so one can see what has happened this far.

Ill try to have some more shots of tank first. Then my ugly child that lives in my tank. Lastly a video of me trying to feed it.. note the word trying.

FTS

Left Side Close Up

Right Side Close Up

Can you see him, he can see you.

Boo!

Ok that was alot of work.. back to hole..

Black sand.. almost home.. god this is far for hopping along..

Turn this wreck around.. and ill be home!


Lastly -- trying to feed him..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7HT2gq71J0

[nlreefguy]

Is that a stonefish?

[fishytime]

I dont know what it is about rhodactis shrooms.....I swore I wouldnt do any shrooms in V@ of my tank ......but low and behold, some orange and green tongan rhodactis snuck their way int there..........I love the supermans too