55 Gallon Reef Tank

[Andyoybna]

I've been pretty busy lately setting up a new 55 Gallon reef tank, and finally have about everything for it except a skimmer

260 Watt PC Lighting 2x65W Actinic, 2x65W 12k
3- 300GPH powerheads
70Lbs Fiji LR
90Lbs LS

Cycle was basically cloned and it has been very mildly stocked so far

20 or so hermits/snails

Peppermint Shrimp
Pencil Urchin
Golden Cucumber.... Somewhere I think

Yellow Tang
2 Ocellaris Clowns
Bi-Color Blenny

Several Corals

Toadstool Leather
Branching Frogspawn
Flowerpot
Hammer Coral
Green Star Polyps
Pulsing Xenia
about 5 brown Zoos

Sabae Anemone


PICTURES!!!

[Andyoybna]

[gm333]

Looks good, love the red clown. Have you thought about hiding that heater behind the rocks?

[phils514]

looks nice!

[saltyfish dude]

I gotta say, I like it alot........I love the wall, some say that it is too "regularly" seen in saltwater tanks (or at least in some places I've read). I think in a 55, where the tank depth from front to bank can limited, that youv'e done a great job with it. It appears that you've went with alot if small peices and piled them with lots of "nooks and crannies". And I like the "curved arch" effect". The fish and all of your marine life are goin to love it. Best of luck to you, and sit back and enjoy your peice of the ocean.................. Neal in Grover Beach, CA..............

[Andyoybna]

So, its been a few months, and I made a mistake, didn't hate a QT tank set up, I added a yellow-headed sleeper goby and it infested my tank with ick... just about everything died, the only 2 fish that were untouched were my scooter blenny and six-line wrasse.

So I waited a few weeks, started running a UV sterilzer, Lots of water changes, and started stocking back up.(during the fish lull, I added quite a few corals)

New fish: A couple damsels, foxface rabbitfish, mandarin, and a juvinile koran(i know.. it will have a bigger tank eventually)

[Andyoybna]

[Nereaga]

looks very nice again! sorry to hear about your losses.

[Achilles]

Lookin good, there is some stuff you can look up on e-bay or other online stores called Red Slime remover, it will kill that red slime asap!. Good job
Todd

[Andyoybna]

achilles thanks for telling me about that cyano remover, looks pretty promising and I will probably buy some soon.

Also, I forgot to mention I added an extra 110 watt T5 HO fixture to the front of my tank along with the 260 Watt PC fixture I already had.


Also... Question How do you know when to replace bulbs on a PC fixture, I've only had the fixture for about 4 months, but I did buy it off ebay, and of course the quality of the bulbs is questionable... It just really seems like the actinic lights arent putting out near as much as they should.

On another note, this week has been hell for the tank it had recently rapidly climed to 80+ degrees outside which rocketed the tanks temp from mid-70s during the whole winter to about 85, so I turned the heater waaayyy down, and it started staying below 80 during the day, and now the past 2 days, it has been below 40 degrees outside during the day and in the 20s at night, and I had not turned the heater back up... So foxface has a couple spots of ich, koran is stressed, hiding and losing color, lost all sps frags I had recentley ordred, lost my 2 chromises and most of my corals have been suffering, hopefully it warms back up tomorrow even though it is supposed to maybe snow tonight. But thankfully stuff is strarting to look good, all except my flowerpot, mushrooms, and toadstools.