This is the tank 4 days after setting it up May 2007. Notice sparse coral coverage. Only 2 small specimens have been added since this picture was taken: a small Candy cane coral and another tiny hard coral frag. I actually traded a bunch of stuff in this Jan. including one of the leathers.
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Quote :
Expect the worse and you are Never Disappointed
About Yourself :
I have been keeping freshwater fish for 24 years, saltwater fish for about 20, and reefs for about 15 years. I still take a minimalists approach and subsribe to the theory of keeping it as simple as possible.
Advice :
Read, Read, and Read some more. Wetwebmedia has some great info on their site. Do not believe anyones advice if they are trying to sell you something.
Fish Kept :
Percula Clown 12 years old.
Yellow Tang 8 years old.
Yellow Headed Sleeper Goby is about a year old as are the 6 Green Chromis
Corals Kept :
Sarcophyton that I fragged about 8 years ago, Mushrooms and other soft corals everywhere that came from a small frag rocks, Torch Coral that was Fragged locally and has now split into about 8 heads.
Tank Size :
125
Description :
I combined 2 small reefs into this
larger tank about a year ago. It is a
125 gallon reef tank with 58 gallon
refugium with Chaetomorpha and a 6 inch
sand bed that is lit opposite of the
main tank, Aqua C ev-150 skimmer, home
made Metal Halide lighting.
Circulation is from a Sequence Dart
pump on a closed loop.
All corals are grown from Frags. None
have ever been in the ocean. I have no
mechanical filtration, only do weekly
cleaning of the skimmer and 16 gallon
water changes. The only additive is
Kalkwasser with topoff water. All
topoff water is processed by R.O. The
transition from the 2 smaller tanks
went very smoothly with not a single
piece of livestock lost. So far it has
been very successful and I hope it will
remain so. Ther are no fancy
chillers, controllers or other
automatic stuff on it except for the
timers on the lights.
