My 1st Salt Water

[Sir Ottis]

I have a 90 gal sw reef. I have had it up for 3 months now. Thaks to alot of you it has been a successful 3 months....save 1 Blue Tang.

Current Livestock:

Corals:
Frogspawn
Torch
Brown and Pink Colts
Hairy Shrooms
Yellow Brain
GSP
Mixed Zoas
Blue Pumping Xenia
Pearl Bubble
White Candy
Misc. Rics

Fish:
Yellow Tang
Orange & Black Percs.
Coral Beauty

Inverts:
Turbos/Ast/Nass/Emerald/Blue Legged Crabs
Blue Linka
Scarlet Reef Shrimp


As it started 3 months ago......

And now....3 months later

Here is the left side.

Here is the left with my Coral Beauty poking his head out....lol

And here is the right side.....

 

[CaptainAhab]

Nice, luv the linka. Do you hand feed?

 

[melosu58]

Very nice tank. I love the linknia also. Mine is over 3 yrs now. Again thanks for the pics

 

[Sir Ottis]

I have never tried hand feeding. I use a child medicine dropper to feed the Marine Cuisine every other day. Every other feeding I also feed with Cyclopeze locally to all of the corals. And non-feeding days I give the Tang and Coral Beauty a small piece of Red Seeweed.

The clowns will nip at the dropper when I feed the Marine Cuisine. And when I have to put my hand in the tank, they will nip at my hand.....kida funny. My clownfish have great personalities.

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

Very nice!

 

[pat8you]

Do your clowns fight or do they have enough space to stay out of each others way?

 

[Sir Ottis]

Actually, I wanted to have one Oragne and one Black in the beginning. I had read where if you get juviniles of each and introduce them at the same time they might co-exist.

So I tried it and they actually paired up. They are like white-on-rice with each other. They are rarely more than 12" apart from each other. I would also point out they were the first fish that I added.

All in all, all of my fish, the 2 clowns, yellow tang, and coral beauty get along very well. The tang lets the black clown nip at his nori when I clip in in the tank. He will back off and let the clown get a nibble and then go back to nibbling.

 

[pat8you]

Thats cool. glad they paired up for you. I had two of the same clowns and they wouldn't pair. A very nice looking tank. Your star looks good too, i'd like to get one of those one day down the road.

 

[theyoungaquariest]

sweet pics

 

[Sir Ottis]

Thought I would Upload some updated pics - Tank is now 8 months old. I have a new light and am in the process of building a new canopy. I have had the new light for a month now and will be adding more sps over the comming months.

 

[melosu58]

Very nice looking progression. Very impressive.

 

[brutus]

Now i see why people progress from FOWLR to a reef .Very nice like that flame angel too.

 

[SiLkk]

nice setup

 

[Sir Ottis]

Like I said before - thanks to this forum my tank has been a success. I never dreamed this would be so addicting.

I already want to get another tank set up - thinking a FOWLR. I really would like a tank for a few longfin banners. I really like some of the tank pics on this site that look more natural. It is amazing we are able to create and maintain an environment like this in our own homes.

Thanks again to everyone's advice and participation in this forum.

 

[GhostKnife]

Awesome looking tank. I am not being a nay-sayer... just wondering. Linknias are supposed to be introduced to mature established aquariums. How is it doing?

 

[buddha_red]

Great looking tank, the corals seem really healthy and happy. Your fish are beautiful!

 

[goisles1]

TANK Looks AWESOME... I'm taking monthly pics of my tank too.. Hopefully in 8-12 months i will have similar results.

Question.. How do you like that Overflow? I'm thinking of purchasing a box and noticed that model is like 1/2 the price of the CPR.. Just curious

 

[nanoluvr]

very, very nice!
Yes...it is extremely addictive. I'm definitely impressed with your progression.

 

[asudavew]

Wow! Your tank has really matured and looks great.

I gots me some of that SW fever!

 

[Sir Ottis]

The overflow is from Tom's Aquatics. I am running a PS4 of theirs. If you have to have an over flow - I guess it is alright. I have had trouble with the Aqualifter - which Tom's Aquatics has replaced. BTW - Tom's Aquatics is AWSOME to deal with.

The Linka is no loner with us. I had a piece of LR fall over and pin him to the glass - which I discovered when I got home one day. He didn't make it. Other than that he was doing great. My LFS has tried to order them for 3 months now and they are having trouble getting them to acclimate. I really want another one. I think the reason I was able to keep one so early is because I had 150 lbs of LR from an existing 5 yr old tank and used 50 gallons(out of 70 actual - 90 gal tank) of cycled water from the onset.

I never realized how fast zenias and colt corals grow. They are my "money makers" They grow so fast their frags pay for my salt for water changes - no kidding.. and I change 15% with Reef Crystals every other week.

Tanks for the comments. I really enjoy watching all of your tanks mature as well.