My 75 gallon reef journey

[Hinds04]

changing my mind on the chromis. My 5 has has been turned into 2 and I'm assuming will be one. I was gonna go for the schooling look but not if 1 is going to kill all the others. So looks like I may have room for 3-4 more fish.

 

[Hinds04]

At this point I feel like I am now talking to myself but for anyone that stumbles across this my rock is done and put in the creek. I was also told that my tank will be in Tuesday and the plumbing for the over flow is included. I will post pictures of the rock later today.

 

[capj64]

The Resplendent Anthias are beautiful schoolers but require special feeding.
Good luck on your tank and sump

 

[Hinds04]

Rock which is now curing

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[mdaniel2882]

Part of the reason for keeping the sump sort of low is to allow for some flow back into the sump from the returns during a power outage. keep this in mind if you run a full sump and account for it in your placement of the return nozzles

 

[Jimbo7]

Rock looks good.

 

[Hinds04]

Thanks I still wanna do a few more pieces.

 

[Hinds04]

Updated stocking list due to chromis problem.

1 green chromis
1 six line wrasse
1 pink spotted goby
1 percula clown
1 royal gramma
1 blue tang
1 yellow tang

 

[Hinds04]

Finished another decent sized rock today with several caves. Hope all the rock I have looks ok together. I have this darker stuff that I made, some real light gray base rock, and some brown/white live rock.

 

[Hinds04]

Got a call today that the tank is in. Might not pick it up until next week though.

 

[kdogg85]

Are you sure about the two tangs? You will have 7 fish and the tangs are gonna get big. I wanted 1 when my 75 was going but everyone suggested against it just for the swimming room reason. Btw, excellent looking rock. How did you setup the molds for it?

 

[Jimbo7]

kdogg is right. You should steer away from tangs in a 75, look at butterfly fishes though. If you do decide on a tang though, get one of the smaller species, chevron, tomini, and kole are my favorites. I have a tomini and they are so much brighter and sweet in real life. He has vibrant orange and blue, and his face has orange dots on it.

 

[Hinds04]

Yea, my list changes day to day. I think I will end up switching a firefish in the blue tang spot. I just would like to get something bright blue.

For the molding I used damp oyster shell and just molded in the way I wanted, then filled and covered.

 

[Hinds04]

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[Jimbo7]

Is it wet yet? more pitchers!

 

[Hinds04]

Having second thoughts on my sump. Leaning towards using my 20 tall to house my heater, return pump, and a hang on skimmer, and a hang on filter pump. Maybe some live rock but sand would not work with return pump. What do you guys think?

 

[Hinds04]

Because I have nothing to do... Fish List

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[Mitchell0605]

Nice. Best fish list so far. Everyone else does words.

 

[Hinds04]

Any input on the sump?

 

[capj64]

why can't you use sand in your sump?