reefwars 75g ugraded bonsai tank build

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by reefwars

hes doing amazing , eats every hour lol im currently accepting applications for a full time adoption in about 2-3 mths

Originally Posted by reefwars

ha his tank is a ways from being done but so far hes candidate number 1 , so get your butt in gear tai!!

Thought I was candidate #1

[reefwars]

Update time :

Tore down the bonsai and redid the rock work , threw out the old rock and fresh start , corals are cleared of hydroids alot got tossed or lost decided to remove my Sandbed as I'm a high flow kinda guy I left a 4" strip of sand 2" thick for the wrasses at the back of the tank from the front looks BB.stuck with the original layout of an island with a tank 30" wide it's a better look and more space and territories for the fish.

Also added a couple fish which puts me at border line over stocked lol I'm currently asking summer Santa for a larger tank

My current livestock:

Achilles tang
Flame wrasse super male
Flame wrasse females x 2
Hawaiian flame angel
Black leopard wrasse
Breeding trio of pj cardinals
Peppermint hogfish
Psychedelic mandarin
Target mandarin
Scooter dragonet
Pair of Trojan clownfish
Single goldband Maroon clown
Melanarus wrasse
Mystery wrasse
Rainfords goby
Lunar wrasse


Way overstocked lol trying to see who can go but they mingle so well together. Seen my rainfords goby yesterday for the first time since I put him in the tank , all he ever did in the other tank was hide anyways lol still have 2 female flame wrasses to add to the cluster puck of it all p

Will post some pics of the new layout and get them posted once I get some I like lol this is pretty much the girlfriends tank now ill be starting on an sps only tank this summer and stealing some of my fish gonna go Hawaiian or Aussie theme for fish and corals

Cheers


Denny

[fishoholic]

I like seeing how stuffed others tanks are, but 20 fish in a 75g wow that's a lot! Makes me feel like my tanks are no were near full in comparison but seriously that is a heck of a lot of fish, defiantly upgrade or rehome time

My 80g list
2 filefish (one wasn't doing his job so I got another one, and they seem to get along fine)
2 lion fish (fuman chu and fuzzy red dwarf)
Tiara anthia
Blue star leopard wrasse
Thornback boxfish
Kuiteri leopard wrasse
Orange diamond goby

9 in total not to bad, especially for me

[reefwars]

some pics

[lastlight]

ohhh some nice stuff!

Is this thing NPS? Killer gorg!

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by lastlight

ohhh some nice stuff!

Is this thing NPS? Killer gorg!

it is but is very hardy i dont directly feed it anymore and ive given a few frags to people who also dont feed it , as far as nps gorgs goes this is considered the hardiest species to start with , want a frag?;P

[lastlight]

yes please! we'll tack it onto my zoa 'order' lol.

[reefwars]

some fts'ssssss










show off lol:

[reefwars]

update time i guess


so this tank has seen some major changes some good and some bad .

iove had to tear down this tank and reset it up from scratch three times now , all because of the digitate hydroids, i was for certain that throwing out my rock and corals would cure this but it hitchhiked back from some coral i didnt have the heart to toss.....stupid decison and now i had to toss the rock out again along with any remaining corals

to add to the stress i played the russian roulette too many times with fish and i recently added a flame angel and flame wrasse from the same order to my tank and it wiped out my fish, went from 26 fish to 12 in a couplle days, right now all my fish are in treatment and the tank is fallow untill fall.

out of all my fish the only ones saved were my flame wrasse pair, lawnmower blenny,scooter dragonette, 3 clowns and 3 cardinals and my melanarus wrasse and peppermint hogfish.....the rest lost i was lucky to save the ones i did by acting fast and setting up a 100g treatment tank........honestly i dont even feel like adding fish back to the display as its a nice calm look so im still deciding if i will keep the fish i have left or not


all my highend corals are gone , i managed to pull the zoas out a few months ago before they got infected but all my sps, lps and rock are garbaged.


heres some pics of how the tank sits now, simple layout simple corals nothing fancy.

debating on whether or not to get the new ati fixture in replacement of my radion pros im not feeling them and having a hard time finding reasons to tell myself why im keeping them lol


recently pulled out all my sand as well with all this hassel...






















with the mass loss of corals,rock and now fish we are deciding what route to take with the tank untill we come up with some ideas its going to sit idle and do its thing.....wasnt a total write off i saved my gorgs which didnt seem affected by the hydroids same with my hammer coral and my tube anemone.


some ideas we are thinking:

adding a moray eel as the only occupant

adding seahorses and changing the tanks design completely

doing either a frogfish or scorpion fish as the only occupant

going freshwater and adding two of the ugliest gold fish i can find( ok not gonna happen i know lol)


cheers

denny

[kien]

Sorry to hear about your issues :-(

I am digging your 'less is more' look though.