Rate My Fish Tank

Rank: #1 out of 34 reef tanks worldwide
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Ratings: 7.71

Number of Votes: 94

Photo Caption: 55g Reef Tank (6 months old)

Advice: Research, Patience, & Responsibility

Fish Kept: Fish:
2 Ocellaris Clowns
2 Banggai Cardinals
1 Blue Hippo Tang
1 Flame Angel
1 Royal Gramma
1 Flame Hawk

Inverts:
10 Nassarius Snails
15 Blue-legged Hermits
18 Tropheus Snails
6 Astrea Snails
1 Cleaner Shrimp

Equipment:
70lbs Fiji Live Rock
60lbs Aragonite sand
1 AquaC Remora Skimmer
1 Phosban 150 Reactor
2 Hydor Koralia Evolution Pumps
1 300w Stealth Heater
1 Coralife Lunar Aqualight (260w)

Corals/Plants Kept: Frogspawn Coral
Sinularia Leather Coral
Multii-colored Mushrooms
Hairy Mushrooms
Pom Pom Coral
Bubble Coral
Hammer Coral
Xenia Coral
Cabbage Leather Coral
Toadstool Leather Coral
Green Star Polyps

Tank Size: 55

Description: This is my new & very 1st 55g SW tank. It has been up and running for about 6 months. Being new to SW, I'm very proud of how it has come together. I did a ton of research and made sure to stock very slowly. I hope you enjoy checking it out, thanks!

Rank: #2 out of 34 reef tanks worldwide
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Ratings: 7.14

Number of Votes: 14

Photo Caption: Overall picture

Advice: Take your time when stocking and do regular water changes

Fish Kept: 4 x Pyjama Cardinalfish which breed regulary 1 x Sunburst Anthias 1 x Raniford Goby 1 x Wheeler Goby with pistol shrimp

Corals/Plants Kept: Several types of Acropora and Montipora, Duncan coral, Red Aussie Acanthastrea, Hammerhead, Pocillipora, Blastomussa, Fungia. Turbo snails, hermit crabs, Lots of frags

Tank Size: 20

Description: 24 x 12 x 15 aquarium filtered by 13kg of STM Ultra grade living rock, D.S.B, sump refugium with Chaeto lit 24/7, Mangrove pods and a TMC V2 400 skimmer. Lighting consists of BLV Nepturion 150w 20,000k bulb Halides and blue LEDs. 4 x Hydor Koralia Nano's on a wavemaker for circulation

Rank: #3 out of 34 reef tanks worldwide
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Ratings: 6.95

Number of Votes: 39

Photo Caption: 2 Ocelaris Clown Fish, Yellow Clown Goby, Yellow and Blue Tangs, Loanmover Blenny, Royal Grammar, variuos hermit Crabs, one Electric blue hermit Crab, one Bubble green tip Anemone, Anemone and Emeral Crabs, Fire, Coral banded and Cleaner Shrimps, Xenias, Soft Corals, Moushrooms and more.

Quote: teke care of any living creature

About Yourself: i like to play golf spend a lot of time with my Family and next proyect, 66 gallon reef tank.

Advice: keep it going

Fish Kept: Ocelaris Clown Fish, Orange Spoted Diamond Goby, Yellow Watchman Goby, Yellow Tang, 2 red leg, 2 blue leg dwarf hermit Crabs, one dwarf blue Zebra hermit Crab, one Bubble tip Anemone, one Arrow Crab, Red Starfish, Peppermint Shrimp, Cleaner Shrimp.

Corals/Plants Kept: Yellow gorgonian, yellow polip colony, purple spoted mushroom and more to come.

Tank Size: 10

Description: this is a Red Sea Max 130D, Nice design, easy to handle, i just added a Hydor Koralia power head for water movement. Red Sea is one of the best....

Rank: #4 out of 34 reef tanks worldwide
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Ratings: 6.87

Number of Votes: 60

Quote: Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein

Advice: Research correctly by talking to the right and credible Marine expert. Most importantly have fun!

Fish Kept: 1. Flame Angel 2. Yellow Tang 3. Golden head Goby 4. 2x False Percula 5. Black Darwin Clownfish

Corals/Plants Kept: 1. Green tip frogspawn 2. Pink tip frogspawn 3. Green montipora 4. Green tip leather coral 5. Green corcea clam 6. Green Zoa 7. Neon Green Star Polyp 8. Green Star Polyp

Tank Size: 55

Description: I am new to the hobby. I like it so much that I am in the process of transferring my FOWLR to a reef tank. Tank is 48" long, 18" inches tall and 12" wide. This is a 2 months old tank. Biological Filtration- 60lbs of live sand and 55 lbs of Fiji Premium Rock Mechanical Filtration - Eheim 2215 Canister Filter - CPR Aeroforce HOB Protein Skimmer Lighting - Aquatic Life PC 48" 4 bulbs at 54 watts each. Actinic bulb is made by ATI BluePlus. Also include are 200 watt heater and Koralia pump 4.

Rank: #5 out of 34 reef tanks worldwide
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Ratings: 6.87

Number of Votes: 104

Photo Caption: Full tank shot 2/15/2010

Quote: don't sweat the petty stuff, just pet the sweaty stuff!

About Yourself: Managed a pet store in 80's, had 23 freshwater tanks, bred central american cichlids bred true chameleons and Phelsuma (Gieco Gecko LOL!)went into the AF and have kids now, so thought it was time to expose them to the wonderful hobby of fish keeping.

Advice: RESEARCH_RESEARCH_RESEARCH! Go slow buy the best of all the equipment you can afford...do not skimp even if it delays setting up your dream tank, cause in the end you WILL pay for it anyways! Try to use cultured frags whenever possible, join a local reef club and get to know the folks at your LFS well and ask questions that you know the answer to and see the response to check the level of their knowledge.

Fish Kept: 1-Banghaii Cardinal, 1-Firefish goby, 1-six-line wrasse, 1-yellow watchman goby, 1-painted clown goby, 1-green chromis, 1-pygmy hawk.

Corals/Plants Kept: 2-Acans (1 red, 1 green) 2-Monti Cap (1 orange, 1 green) 1-Green Psammacora 1-Acro sp. 1-Duncan w/new head 1-Blasto wellsi w/3 new heads 1-Candy Cane 1-Robokaki Chalice 1-Alien Eye Chalice 1-Galaxia (it was on the bottom got bumped by the mag cleaner and all but died...my bad not checking it's location after the bottom relocation) 1-Green Favia 1-kenyan tree softie 2-Neon Green Sinularia 1-Green Polyped Leather 12+ assorted colored Ricordea 4+ hairy mushrooms 2 Metallic green elephant ears 2-Red Rhodactis 5 or 6 Green Rhodactis Many different color Discsomas Many different color Zoanthids 2 species Pulsing Xenia Electric Green Colve polyps that have orange tips Daisy Cloves Micro blue cloves Orange Gorgonian (captive frag doing good so far) INVERTS~ 6-8 blue leg hermits 2-peppermint shrimp 1-Scarlet cleaner shrimp 1-growing brittle star ( came as a hitchhiker)

Tank Size: 37

Description: AGA 37 gallon, Sundial T5/2-14K,2-Actinic 03s, CPR Aquatics BakPak II, Rena Filstar 4 with only purigen, chemi-pure elite and phosphate absorber. One Koralia1 on the back left top blowing to front, Koralia Nano on the top right side blowing across to the left bottom corner. I add 8 drops of Iodide 1x/day, calcium is dosed as need to maintain 350PPM, magnesium,strontium/Moly are dosed every 9 days at 10 drops of each. Buffer added as needed to maintain 10-12dkH. I feed frozen rotifers, cyclopeze 3xs/week in small amounts. I use DTs Phtyo 1-2xs/week.

Rank: #6 out of 34 reef tanks worldwide
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Ratings: 6.81

Number of Votes: 102

Photo Caption: Updated Red Sea Max '2010

About Yourself: I first got into this hobby by loving the colours of the marine fish, but being discouraged from different people I decided to do alot more research into the hobby and decided to start small with a Red Sea Max. and so far it has been the best hobby I have ever gotten into.

Advice: always be patient when dealing with saltwater fishtanks, otherwise you will pay for it.

Fish Kept: percula clown pair, Regal tang, flame angel, pajama cardinalfish, turbo snail, blue-legged hermit crab.

Corals/Plants Kept: frogspawn, bubble-tip anemone, flower pot, branching hammer, anchor, toadstool mushrom, bubble, lobed brain, leather finger, long-tentacled pate

Tank Size: 34

Description: Red Sea Max 34G. 20% water change every 3 weeks. tank is always 27 degrees celsius, apart from nightime which drops to around 25. this tank has been running for around 10 months now, I give calcium dosages every two days and maintain buffering solutions once a week.

Rank: #7 out of 34 reef tanks worldwide
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Ratings: 6.65

Number of Votes: 57

Photo Caption: FTS

Quote: Are you Local (TV series A league of gentlemen

About Yourself: Always been into fish so when I bought my own house & decided to buy my own tank & wanted a marine set up but did not have the time due to my young children so went for Cichlids. 5 years later I decided to changed my set up for a reef one & that was 2 years ago now

Advice: Don't be afraid to ask & beware, it will take hold of your life, it's great

Fish Kept: Pair of wild Oscellaris clowns Yellow tang Trio of Evansi Anthias Leopard Wrasse Pair of purple firefish Pair of high fin goby's with a pistol shrimp Orange/green Mandarin

Corals/Plants Kept: Green hammerhead Green Frogspawn Red Bubble Tip Nem Bright green candy cane Red Cynaria Deresa clam Xenia Lots of Acans Ricordeas Green Star Polyps Various coloured Zoas Blasto Welsi's x2 Coco Worms Clove polyps

Tank Size: 40

Description: Jewel Vision 180 tank & stand Deltec ME600 skimmer Cleartides 360 Refugium Aquamedic single 150w halide light unit Certizon C100 ozonizer Phosban 150 phosphate reactor ATC 800 Azoo twin fan x2 6055 Tunze powerheads with controller Maxijet 1200 powerhead All blue single aquaray Tunze auto top up unit

Rank: #8 out of 34 reef tanks worldwide
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Ratings: 6.58

Number of Votes: 100

Photo Caption: This is the most recent pic of my main tank!

About Yourself: I got into the hobby right out of college...Thought it would be fun to get a gold fish in a little 3 gallon aquarium and it just kind of exploded from there. I now have the nano reef, as well as two fresh water tanks and a couple of reptiles to go along with my cat. I work part time in the fish department of a local pet store and don't really consider it work. It's my hobby and I love seeing people get excited about fish and corals!

Advice: My advice is to take it slow, don't over feed, do it right, invest some money in the set up, read a book or two, don't rely entirely on the internet for resources because there is a lot of incorrect info out there, and most importantly TAKE IT SLOW AND DON'T OVER FEED!

Fish Kept: Fish kept: Yellow Watchmen Goby paired with a Michael's Target Pistol Shrimp, Green Clown Goby, Purple Fire Fish, Tail Spot Blenny, Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, Pom Pom Crab, Pink Emerald Crab, 2 margarita snails, 3 astrea snails, 1 turbo snail (off and on...replace when he dies and need another), 5 hermit crabs, Pink with Green center Tube Anemone

Corals/Plants Kept: Corals: Blastumossa Welsii, Blastumossa Merleti, Pavona Maldivensis, Orange Eye Chalice, Green Trachophylia/Wellsophyllia, Red and Green Trachophyllia, Candy Cane Calaustria (Trumpet), Blue Anthelia, Green Spongodes, Blue/Purple Mushrooms, Red Mushrooms, 2 or 3 different kinds of Zooanthids, Purple and Green Favia Brain, Metallic Green Star Polyps, Duncanopsammia (Duncan), Orange Carpet Lobophyllia, ....I think that's it

Tank Size: 10

Description: This is a 10 Gallon tank with a 10 gallon Refugium and a 10 gallon sump. I am running Current USA CF lighting. Each fixture has 2 40 watt bulbs...one dual daylight and one dual actenic bulb. I run them on an alternating 12 hour cycle with dawn and dusk on the main tank. (The fuge is on at night and the main tank on during the day. I use coral life timers to run the lights and I prefer the manual ones to the digital just because they seem easier to use. I am pushing about 200 gallons per hour through the tank. Sound small but remember it is only about 22 gallons of water total in all three tanks. I have and Aqua C Urchin protein skimmer in the sump as well as a UV sterilizer. Don't ask what brand the sterilizer is because I don't know. I got it cheap at Petsmart. (Hey better then nothing!) I am running overflow boxes with aqualifter pumps on each of the top two tanks that drain to the sump. I am also running a AquaClear 20 hang on the back filter on the main tank. The media in that filter is just some Ceramic tiles I stole from my fluval on my fresh water tank and a sponge. I dose Kalkwasser and Kent's Essential Elements. Up and running just over a year.

Rank: #9 out of 34 reef tanks worldwide
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Ratings: 6.44

Number of Votes: 32

Photo Caption: my 120g reef (If you are going to vote 0, please don't bother and skip my pictures. Thank you)

Advice: Research as much as possible, don't get more than your system is ready for or more than you know about, and stay away from Damsels!!

Fish Kept: Sailfin Tang, Kole Tang, Tennenti Tang, Chocolate Mimic Tang, Christmas Tree Wrasse, Cleaner Wrasse, Black Onyx Perc clown mated with False Perc, True Perc Clown, Diamond Goby, Purple Firefish, Neon Cleaner Goby, Tiger Jawfish, Pearl Jawfish, Chalk Basslet, Green Clown Goby, Tiger Cucumber, 2 Serpent Stars, Flame Scallop, Feather Duster, 2 Cleaner Shrimp, 10 Peppermint Shrimp, 3 Conch's, various Hermit's and snails

Corals/Plants Kept: RBT Anemone, BT Anemone, 2 Flower Anemones, 2 types of Aussie Acans, Purple and Green Aussie Blastos, Hurricane Lobos, Orange Lobo, Red, Green and Yellow Zoo's, Blue Steel Zoas, Pink Palys, Wall Hammer, Branch Hamer, Grand Palys, Green Frogspawn, Bi-Colored Frogspawn, 3 types of Torch, Pink Enchino, Green, Acid Yellow and Orange Yuma's, Blue Ricordia's, Various Shrooms, Teardrop Maxima, Deresa Clam, Star Polyps, Bird's Nest, Green and Purple Hydno, Red Cap Montiporra, Red Brain, Maze coral, Sun Polyps, Christmas Tree Rock, Green Candy, Acid Green Trumpet Coral, Pink Millie, Green Slimer and probably a few more things I'm forgetting

Tank Size: 120

Description: 120g reef, 250wx2 MH w/96wx2 Blue Atinic lights, 8 2w blue led's, back overflow, ASM G3 Skimmer, 24w UV sterilizer, mag 5 return pump

Rank: #10 out of 34 reef tanks worldwide
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Ratings: 6.44

Number of Votes: 103

Photo Caption: LOULOU'S REEF TANK 2 FISH... BLUE HIPPO TANG ,YELLOW HAWIAN TANG, BLONDE NASO TANG,POWDER BLUE TANG, OCELLERUS CLOWN,TOMATO CLOWN,FOXFACE,SUNTAIL GOBY, YELLOW HEAD GOBY CORALS... WHITE BUBBLE, GREEN TIPPED PINK TORCH, RED BRAIN, METALLIC GREEN WORM BRAIN, FINGER LEATHER, UMBRELLA LEATHER, PINK PULSATING XENIAS, ZOANTHIDS- (BLUE,PINK,ORANGE,BROWN, GREEN,ORANGE AND YELLOW SUN POLYPS, MUSHROOMS-(BLUE,RED,GREEN, STRIPED. RICORDIAS-(GREEN AND ORANGE) INVERTS... SAND SIFTING STARS,ORANGE LINKIA STAR, RED FROMIA STAR,PINK TILE STAR, CLEANER SHRIMPS, RED FIRE SHRIMPS,CAMEL SHRIMP,PURPLE LOBSTER,CROCEA CLAM,SNAILS-(TURBO,BUMBLEBEE,NASARILUS)HERMITS-(RED LEGGED,BLUE LEGGED,BLUE EYED),SALLY LIGHTFOOT CRAB,BLUE TUXEDO URCHIN

Quote: LIVE LIFE PLAY HARD

About Yourself: 30YR OLD THAT LOVES MARINE LIFE. HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR

Advice: PATIENCE

Fish Kept: HIPPO,HAWIAN,CLOWN,TOMATO,FOXFACE,GOBY INVERTS(SAND SIFTING STARS,CLEANER SHRIMPS,CAMEL SHRIMP,SNAILS,HERMITS

Corals/Plants Kept: BUBBLE, TORCH, BRAINS, LEATHERS, XENIAS, ZOAS MUSHROOMS(BLUE,RED,GREEN, STRIPED. GREEN AND ORANGE RICORDIA'S

Tank Size: 65

Description: RED SEA 250 SETUP. LIVE SAND 55LB LIVE ROCK