reefwars 75g ugraded bonsai tank build

[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.

[Reef Pilot]

Very sorry to hear about your loss. You're taking it a lot better than I would... Goes to show it can happen to even the best... And thanks for sharing your challenges, and any lessons learned.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

Very sorry to hear about your loss. You're taking it a lot better than I would... Goes to show it can happen to even the best... And thanks for sharing your challenges, and any lessons learned.

thanks

its been a hard few weeks , im pro qt but always end up taking the risk in my experience i should have known better but i do end up making the wrong choices sometimes too so ill chalk it up to a lesson learned.it was a violent strain of MI that took the fish out , it acted fast and with in a week it was here and gone and left its path of destruction on my fish.

right now we are going to enjoy the summer and im busy with the new store opening in aug so i have the ability to go fallow untill fall in which case we are deciding what to do with the tank as far as livestock is concerned.

the qt will stay running in case we decide to add any new fish and they will go for the same treatment as my current fish are getting.

3 wks in qt so far and everyone is doing amazing no signs of ich or any parasites but they have a ways to go still.

cheers

denny

[gregzz4]

Crappy
Sorry to hear about the devastation Denny

[reefwars]

update time again

ok so tank is back on track , all my fish were taken out of qt a couple days ago they did well in hypo for 2 mths and i lost only 2 in the process

ive recently decided to add another copperband and didnt want to put him through the qt process so heres taking another chance lol he looks fine and i did have him on hold at ther shop for a while to make sure he is active all other fish will go into the qt tank as i left it running just in case i need it again soon....i hope not:P

my current fish list.....its small

male flame wrasse(lost female in hypo)
mated trio of cardinals
pair of trojan clownfish
lawnmower blenny
filamented goby
copperband butterfly


so far the copperband is eating mysis after a couple of days of training and hes also eating my squamosa lol

anyways heres some pics the tank ,its still in hibernation mode untill i see where i want to go coral wise with it

cheers

denny



























protecting the roman empire!!!

[reefwars]

couple more

[lastlight]

you gotta sell me a scrap of that purple/yellow gorg still bro it's RAD.

not your typical scape but it really looks good and that little bridge piece in the middle tickles me in all the right ways.

EDIT: oh god i had missed your updates when you lost all the fish and corals that sucks sorry to hear. You no longer have your black lep?

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by lastlight

you gotta sell me a scrap of that purple/yellow gorg still bro it's RAD.

not your typical scape but it really looks good and that little bridge piece in the middle tickles me in all the right ways.

EDIT: oh god i had missed your updates when you lost all the fish and corals that sucks sorry to hear. You no longer have your black lep?

no sadly i had to make the choice of putting him in qt , knowing they do not do well but had no other choice , he was one of the fish lost in qt

i will try another someday but digging the bb look for a bit

[reefwars]

some frags from my fragtank that i have waiting too go back.....someday if i can feel its safe to do so lol


pink lemonade(was brown but is getting color fast in the coral system)





ORA pearlberry ( also getting nice color as of late)



oregon tort



strawberry shortcake (was brown as can be but is getting some greens and pinks back very nice )




un identified acro( my nicest color)

started as a skin flap from a rtn colonie and has come back to this i never did know what it was as it rtn'd during shipping and was a wild piece but it is a beautiful orange,red,green and bright pink



montipora:



scott(argentiner) famous blue millie( lost this piece and came back from a skinflap...a brown snotty skinflap lol , just now getting its blue back ...still waiting for the shag factor to come back



infamous red planet:



yellow tipped acroi( crazy bright green!!!)