Featured Tank: Summer 2013 "daniella3d"

[kien]

An absolutely gorgeous tank! Well done and well deserved TOTM/Q/S/Y. Clearly you know what you are doing. Keep on reefin' on :-)

[daniella3d]

I try to keep my calcium around 440 because I have a few clams. Not sure if it is needed or not. Also I use Reef Crystal salt which is quite high in calcium and when ever I do a water change having a higher level of calcium help prevent too much swing. Things seem to be going well with this level so far.

I don't have any plan to upgrade to a larger tank because of the room in the house is limited. If I could I would love to have a large FOWLR but that's not something that's going to happen unless I win at the lottery!

If I could change something? I would get rid of the common SPS and replace them with rare and exquisite ones. That's what I am doing slowly. I got a red dragon, red planet, bird of paraside, setosa and a few other rare corals to replace my staghorn and my more common SPS. I will add in the future a wolverine, palmer's blue and a few others rare corals.

My future plan on short term is to attempt raising my black ice clownfish eggs. So I am now getting ready for this with a setup to raise the eggs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Hklvpqg8ay4

It's not going to be this batch of eggs because I am not ready for them, but soon

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[Reef Supplies]

hey félicitations Danielle!

[mseepman]

Amazing tank! Really love how you aquascape with the coral...I'm learning this I us no easy task! Congrats on Tank Of The Summer.

[fishoholic]

Beautiful tank, congrats! Love all the variety of colour in there

Originally Posted by daniella3d

thanks everyone

I sold my copperband to a friend because he started to attack my clams and corals. He was fine for 2 years, so that was very hard to do since I grew quite attached to it and its great personality.

He had no reason to pick at my clams and corals since I was feeding him like twice per day. It looked more like he started to pick just for fun as he was not eating them, just picking at it. Maybe he was bored? or just curious. I also lost my beautiful niger trigger and found him one day dry on the floor I have no idea why he jumped out. there was nothing in the tank that could possibly attack him, no aggressive fish, but he was very skittish.

CBB's seem to like clams, mine picked on the clam I had too. Not sure why but I find Triggers are just as bad for jumping out as wrasses are. I've lost 1 pink tail and 2 niger triggers to the carpet

[Bblinks]

Well deserved! congrats!

[lastlight]

stunning aquascape and coral selection. my eyes dig it!

[madkeenreefer]

Congratulations Dani , very nice to see your tank featured as TOTM.

[H2o2]

I have always learned from your input and now i can see why ,congats

[Myka]

Daniella, you have a great eye for aquascaping! Both of your tanks are very eye-pleasing. Congrats!