my 125 with pics (dial up might wanna watch out)

[tyler]

specs as of right now:

125g oceanic nature's view
~20g rubbermade sump
languna pondmaster 7000 return pump
2 modified amiracle hang on overflows
turboflotor t1000 protein skimmer
2x250 iwasaki ran on mercury vapor ballasts in a diy canopy
~70 lbs of liverock
~150-200 lbs of a mixture of southdown and purearagonite sand

livestock:

fish:
4" porcupine puffer
1" yellow tail damsel

inverts:
1 peppermint shrimp
a handfull of zebra leg hermits
8 or so astrea snails
bunches of smaller snails

corals:
assorted mushrooms
green star polyps
candy cane
1 unidentified polyp


pictures

full tank w/ flash

saki's

sump area

porc puffer in the open

sleepin

yellow tail (crappy picture)

some of the mushrooms

green stars and green stripe mushrooms

candy cane

future plans:

actinic to balance out the iwasakis
refugium
clean up the sump area
moonlighting
more rock - either live or dead, just more
more fish - thinking a six line, perhaps a longnose butterfly, who knows what else
more coral - probably just a bunch of easy crap like xenia, leathers, some lps, ricordias and zoos (maybe some montis someday)

and that's about it

 

[Electrobes]

awesome pics man! I am a brackish person myself, but I jealous of your set up!

 

[tyler]

i also keep a 55g brackish and a 10g fresh...

 

[e-cat]

nice tank, doesnt yor puffer eat your shrimp?

 

[tyler]

you'd think that wouldn't you? he's shown no interest it it what so ever. sometimes it hangs out in a cave near one of his sleeping areas and he doesn't so much as look at it.

 

[Guest]

Great Setup! How high would you say the lights are off of the water?

 

[tyler]

Great Setup! How high would you say the lights are off of the water?

thanks, about 8" the canopy is vented with 2 of those fans one would use to force air through ducting (loud, but effective)

 

[jamal-188]

any tips on making the canopy, I have to make one for my 110G in the next couple days before my MH's get here.

 

[tyler]

no tips since i didn't make it...in only stained it. came with the tank

but mine is made so the front folds down for feeding and such and the top folds up for full maintenance. open back for venilation, whole thing is made out of oak plywood.

 

[alrmc4]

awesome thanks for sharing

 

[fishfreek]

Wonderful.

 

[biotoxin]

im diggin the sump from Target.

 

[tyler]

wal mart man

 

[kribbz]

that sump looks exactly like mine. nothing but the best right. those are top of line, high quality Walmart Sumps. had to run you anywhere between 100 and 200 dollars right? hahaha

 

[tyler]

haha. i think it was 8 bucks. i actually got it cleaned up a lot. i'll get a new picture up soon.

this weekend's aquisition

 

[kribbz]

very cool!