Top 141 - 150 Reef Tanks 2006
Rated #141: 125 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Jack
Country: United States
Rank:
#141 out of 175 Reef Tanks submitted 2006
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Submitted By:
Jack on
Ratings:
4.23
Number of votes:
292
Quote:
gone fishin
About Yourself:
Work full time and I find salt water fish tanks rather very expensive.
Fish Kept:
Saifin tang, blonde naso tang, hippo tang, gold marron stripped clown
Corals/Plants:
leather coral, few torch corals, hard corals, 120lbs of live rock, 80lbs live sand, clean up crew, and an anemene, hammer coral, 2 clams, fox coral.
Tank Size:
125 gallons
Advice:
Don't freak out when things start dying. Takes a while before establishing a well maintained habitat. Also water changes are the best thing you can do for your tank.
Description:
125 g tank. I use a 72" lighting itinics, with 3 metal halide lighting. I have a refusium in the bottom along with a protein skimmer and calcium liquid added daily. All lights are on a timer and on for 12 hours a day.
Rated #142: 72 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Skeety
Country: United States
Rank:
#142 out of 175 Reef Tanks submitted 2006
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Submitted By:
Skeety on
Ratings:
4.23
Number of votes:
297
Quote:
Sticking feathers up your butt does NOT make you a chicken!
Fish Kept:
Fish: Hippo Tang, Coral Beauty, 2 Percula's, Clown Goby, Fire Goby, and a LMB
Inverts: Cleaner Shrimp, Astrae Snail, 6 Turbo Snails, 25+ Hermits, Long-Spined Urchin, Anemone Crab, Sabae Anemone, 4 Feather Dusters
Corals/Plants:
Corals: Acro's, Montipora Dig., Poccilliapora, GSP, red/pink/green Zooanth's, Hammers, Torch, gorgonian, a plate coral, black sun polyps and some Caulastrea (trumpets).
Tank Size:
72 gallons
Advice:
Master Nutrient import/exporting and the rest will come easier.
Description:
-s0da-'s Tank
72 gn RR Bowfront, 20gn Sump, 4x96wt PC lights, 80lbs LR, 1650gph Closed loop system.
Rated #143: 75 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: brad
Country: United States
Rank:
#143 out of 175 Reef Tanks submitted 2006
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Submitted By:
brad on
Ratings:
4.2
Number of votes:
336
Quote:
here's your sign
About Yourself:
This is my first saltwater tank. It is about 2 years old
Fish Kept:
3 green chromis
1 yellow tail blue damsel
pair of saddleback clowns
1 brownbarred goby
1 orangespotted sleeper goby
1 engineer goby
red and blue hermit crabs
2 brittle stars
1 sandsifting star
1 bulbtip rose anemone
Corals/Plants:
purple, red, and blue mushrooms
green star polyps
brown star polyps
green starburst polyps
Tank Size:
75 gallons
Advice:
dont buy a skilter 400 they are junk
Description:
75 gal saltwater
Rated #144: 12 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Danny
Country: Great Britain
Rank:
#144 out of 175 Reef Tanks submitted 2006
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Submitted By:
Danny on
Ratings:
4.19
Number of votes:
318
Quote:
none
Fish Kept:
clowns, dottyback
Corals/Plants:
easy ones this is my first time goniopora is my hardest one
Tank Size:
12 gallons
Advice:
take it slow, and listen to as much info as you can before your head pops off
Description:
18"x20"x16" nano with live rock, 5 soft coral 1 hard coral, a clean up crew a clown and orchid dottyback, up and running a month so far
Rated #145: 46 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: John Zeman
Country: United States
Rank:
#145 out of 175 Reef Tanks submitted 2006
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Submitted By:
John Zeman on
Ratings:
4.18
Number of votes:
325
Quote:
fish are cool!
Fish Kept:
Blue tang, Yellow tang, 3x Nemos, blue lobster, emerald crab sally crab, horse shoe crab, watchmen gobe, snales, hemits,
Corals/Plants:
leather, xenia, mushroom, Buttons
Tank Size:
46 gallons
Advice:
Buy Your water, and rock and sand from some were you see it working.
Description:
My first pics
Rated #146: 80 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Adsy
Country: Australia
Rank:
#146 out of 175 Reef Tanks submitted 2006
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Submitted By:
Adsy on
Ratings:
4.18
Number of votes:
300
Quote:
Problems are just solutions without brainpower added...
Fish Kept:
Basic fish just for colour, 2 brown clowns (breeding now), damsels, humbugs, gobies, coral banded shrimp, usual snails, crabs etc
Corals/Plants:
Daisy corals, fluffies, leathers, several anenomes, purple tipped jardini, heaps of random corals and continually adding slowly.
Tank Size:
80 gallons
Advice:
Let things settle for two months and slowly add the fish and corals.
Description:
Favourite old photo, need to update already
Rated #147: 30 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Eric and Christine
Country: United States
Rank:
#147 out of 175 Reef Tanks submitted 2006
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Submitted By:
Eric and Christine on
Ratings:
4.12
Number of votes:
295
Quote:
No Kitty! It's a BAD Kitty!!!!!!
Fish Kept:
2 false perculas, 2 blue green chromis, 1 purple pseudochromis. 10 blue leg hermits. 2 turbo snails. 2 Black footed carribbean snails. 1 sand sifting star fish. 2 Emerald crabs. 2 Peppermint shrimp. 2 indo-pacific snails
Corals/Plants:
Green star polyps, misc. mushrooms, frogspawn, blastomussa wellsi (with new littlie bud from mother colony) newly added sinularia, montipora capricornus, green zooanthids, brown toadstool coral, red brain coral.
Tank Size:
30 gallons
Advice:
Don't listen to your wife...Get one anyway, she will love it later I promise!!!!!
Take your time to learn everything you can
Description:
30 Gallon reef tank
All coral less than one year old
Most grown from frags except Brain
Rated #148: 340 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Toyotaman
Country: United States
Rank:
#148 out of 175 Reef Tanks submitted 2006
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Submitted By:
Toyotaman on
Ratings:
4.1
Number of votes:
335
Quote:
You have one life to live enjoy the best of it.
Fish Kept:
achilles tang, kole tang, naso tang, foxface, diamond goby, tomato clown, saddleback clown, sabae clown, yellowtail damsel, 2 cleaner wrasse, 2 royal gramma, 2 pearly jawfish, 6 pj cardnals.
Corals/Plants:
hammer, star pulps, 3 diff zoos, 4 diff mushrooms, 2 diff pulsing xenia, 2 diff leathers, trumpet, and a carpet
Tank Size:
340 gallons
Description:
300 gallon wanna be reef. just started to and corals
Rated #149: 100 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Miguel
Country: United States
Rank:
#149 out of 175 Reef Tanks submitted 2006
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Submitted By:
Miguel on
Ratings:
4.09
Number of votes:
276
Quote:
If you don't stop and look around you might miss it
Fish Kept:
Yellow Tang, Green Wolf Eel, Foxface Lo, Porcupine Puffer, 3 brittle starfish, 10 hermitcrabs
Corals/Plants:
Mushrooms
Tank Size:
100 gallons
Advice:
Love your wife like your reef tank!
Description:
The Blue Light!!!!!!!
Rated #150: 125 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: gino
Country: United States
Rank:
#150 out of 175 Reef Tanks submitted 2006
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Submitted By:
gino on
Ratings:
4.09
Number of votes:
323
Quote:
prepare all you want ...what you never see is what is going to get you
Fish Kept:
3 Tangs (yellow, scopas, kole), 2 Clown (true percula), 1 Basslet (royal gramma), 6 Damsels (1 beau-gregery, 2 blue fin, 2 domino, 1 cloudy)
----- Inverts------
5 Shrimp (1Coral banded, 5 peppermint)
5Rock anemone,3 Marine Snails,1 Sea Urchin, 6 Crabs (1 Arrow crab,2 red sand Crab,3 Sally light foot) Zooanthids (7 Mushroom polyps,31 Yellow star polyps, 217 white Purple mat polyps,13 Sun polyps)Brown brush Algae (clump)10 Feather duster worm, 22 Blue legged hermit crab, 2 Red legged hermit crab, 50 Marine Sand Worms, 5 starfish
Corals/Plants:
mentioned above in invert fish part
Tank Size:
125 gallons
Advice:
well sort of both
I am a biology teacher with my tank in the classroom. I know a lot but know I don't know everything
Description:
my tank