Daplatapus's upgrade

[WarDog]

It's all looking very impressive Dom! Have you finalized your stocking plans?

[daplatapus]

Originally Posted by WarDog

It's all looking very impressive Dom! Have you finalized your stocking plans?

Thanks man! Stocking plans... no, not finalized yet. Right now I have in my main 77 gal DT:
- a yellow tang
- a flame angel
- a Starry blennie
- a pink spotted goby
- a single Ocellaris clown (his mate died, pretty sure the tang was the killer)
- bi-colour pseudo-chromis (Been trying to catch this sucker to give away for a couple months now) he is NOT going in the 210
- a RBTA
- a clam - no idea what kind - came in as a rescue

In my 20 gal cube I have:
- a yellow watchman Goby and pistol shrimp combo
- 2 blue/green chromis
- several maxi-mini anemone's

In my 50 gal rescue tank I have:
- another blue/green chromis
- a mated pair of True Percula clowns
- a purple dottyback
- a skunk cleaner shrimp
- a banded coral shrimp
- another maxi-mini anemone


I'm pretty open to moving all those into the 210. Although there has been some bad blood in the past between certain fish - hence the multiple tanks, lol.
The YWG doesn't get along with the Starry blenny - although he didn't have the pistol shrimp with him at the time.
The pink spotty goby stole the YWG's pistol shrimp, leaving him out in the cold.
And the bi-colour pseudochromis will kill my shrimp. So he's gone - not even a question.

I love the shrimp - I'd have several more in my tank if I can.

Wish list:
I know my tank is really pushing it but I would like both a sail fin tang and a blonde Naso. Any thoughts as to long term success with these two with the current list would be appreciated. There's NOT a lot of rock in my DT - so a fair bit of swimming room.

I would also like to add 5 or 7 Lyretail anthias. Now I'm not entirely certain this was the one I wanted. I have to do a bit more research. I was in J&L once last summer and saw the anthias I wanted. The scales were clearly visible, almost crosshatch looking.

Anyway, that's about it. Thoughts and comments always welcome

[daplatapus]

Pretty stoked right now

I finally got my lights finished, Jarduino controller finished and lights hung

As mentioned a while back, I went with pocket door rails and wheels. That allows me to push the lights back on the rails to work in the tank.





One fixture up:

[daplatapus]

So right now that puts my lights around 12" off the water. I do have some short pieces of ready rod and couplers to drop the lights if I need/want to.

3 fixtures up:

[daplatapus]

And drum roll please: (I know that's not a drum roll, but it was the closest I could find,lol)

[daplatapus]

LET THERE BE LIGHT!!!!!!!






End view:



And with the doors open:






Pretty happy with the results thus far

[Aquattro]

Nice!