Scott's 270g aka Project Mayhem

[wickedfrags]

With a tank this size, once somewhat mature, get a copperband butterfly. Great looking fish, and eat aptasia. I had a CBB for about 3 years and never had one, and if I had one on a rock, I placed it out in the open and he made short work of it.

However - do NOT add a mandarin goby! They compete for the same food, my 3 year old CBB died in one week after adding one.

Looking forward to more updates. dave

Originally Posted by Scythanith

I am hoping to take some of my corals from the 40g and transfer them to the 270g. I will have to wait and see if the peppermint shrimp have cleaned up my aptasia problem or not. I don't want to willingly add aptasia to my new tank if I can avoid it.

[Scythanith]

Thanks Dave. I had a CBB in my 85g for a good 2 years until he disappeared into the rock work forever. That was a very well established tank with tons of pods, etc. I will give one another shot in the big tank a year down the road maybe. Like you said, once it has an established microfauna.

I can't wait to get home and see what the peppermints have accomplished. I want to move corals haahaa!

[Scythanith]

I got an A200 from Abyzz instead of an A100 since it wasn't ready yet. I pulled the Quietones out and adapted the 1.5" output of the Abyzz to the 1" manifold.



Here is the A200 on the bottom sump.



You may have noticed the large white zip ties holding the silicone connectors on to the Abyzz pumps. This is why I took the stainless shell hose clamps off.





And my little buddy was hanging around so I had him pose for a couple.



I still need to add two more MP40's. I have one running on the 40g coral tank that will be transferred once that tanks shut down.



I added some corals. I hope to get some shots this weekend. A nice green/orange scolymia, a pink wall hammer, an orange frogspawn, a nice acan colony, and a small zoa frag.

Cheers,
Scott

[BlueTang<3]

Wow nice job in the fish room very neat and clean, looks good

[Scythanith]

Originally Posted by BlueTang<3

Wow nice job in the fish room very neat and clean, looks good

Thanks! I originally wanted a 360 6x4x2! But there was an issue with having it built in the basement so I had to drop it down to 6x3x2

Cheers!

[Scythanith]

Here are a couple quick photos from the holidays

Pink with gold base.



Sort of blue with gold base. The blue is getting closer to a true blue everyday.



Good ol' acans.





Golden hammer.



Scoly.

[Scythanith]

Just some random shots.

[Scythanith]

Some new corals from a great local boxing day sale and ones I transferred from the 40g. They aren't the best pictures but I wanted to share

[Scythanith]

I have high hopes for this one.













Bought this when it was brown. It had a hard time, but now is off the hook!









Red Fungia sp.

[reefermadness]

Nice....glad to see those frags surviving the transition.