Top 11 - 20 Reef Tanks 2011
Rated #11: 220 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Jodi
Country: United States
Rank:
#11 out of 107 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Jodi on
Ratings:
6.44
Number of votes:
151
Quote:
Feed your filtration
About Yourself:
Not much to say about me besides I'm addicted to SW fish. Started after 10 years of freshwater and I'll never go back. Learned some things the hard way until I got smart and started listening to those that had far more experience than I.
Fish Kept:
Purple tang, yellow tang, foxface lo, sailfin tang, achielles tang, doctor tang, lieutenant tang, lawnmower blenny, Leopard wrasse, yellow wrasse, engineer goby, blue/green reef chromis, neon blue damsels, reef damsels, green mandarin, Midas blenny, copperbanded butterfly
RTBA,
Cleaner and peppermint shrimp
Astrea, nassarius, and mexican turbo snails
2 sand sifting sea stars
Blue star
Basket star
Assorted hermits
Assorted emerald crabs
Assorted feather dusters,
Corals/Plants:
Branching hammer, Aussie wall hammer, grape coral, torch coral (yellow and pink tip) radioactive kryponite candy coral, green candys, dunans, whiskers, assorted palys, assorted zoas, pink acans, Aussie lord acans, war coral, symposium, green star polyps, yellow polyps, leather toadstool, leather cabbage, green finger leather, assorted mushrooms, orange yumas, assorted ricordeas, pink encrusted gonipora, lobo brain, welso brain, bubble coral, plate coral, fire lamosa, maze brain, green wall hammer, Xenia, monti, stylophora, favites, galaxia, Validia acro, purple acro, Scroll, Green eye cup, Green milipora
Tank Size:
220 gallons
Advice:
TAKE YOUR TIME! Those who go too fast learn everything the hard way faster
Description:
My thing that gives me a quiet mind
Rated #12: 58 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Bobby
Country: United States
Rank:
#12 out of 107 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Bobby on
Ratings:
6.39
Number of votes:
162
Quote:
Can't stop what's coming, can't stop what's on its way.
Fish Kept:
PB Tang, Maroon Clown, 6 Line Wrasse
Corals/Plants:
Xenia, Frogspawn, GSP, Kenya Tree, Leathers, GBTA, Pipe Organ, Brain, Xmas Tree, Monti Caps...
Tank Size:
58 gallons
Advice:
QUARANTINE EVERYTHING!!!
Description:
58 gal mixed reef, around 1 year old...
Rated #13: 29 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Brandon Lane
Country: United States
Rank:
#13 out of 107 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Brandon Lane on
Ratings:
6.34
Number of votes:
155
Quote:
There's always room for more coral!
About Yourself:
I dove into this hobby about 2, 1/2 years ago after nagging my wife relentlessly. My other tanks include a Biocube 14 and an Oceanic 76 gallon half-circle.
Fish Kept:
Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse, Banggai Cardinalfish, Percula Clownfish
Corals/Plants:
Welso Brain, Open Brain, Long Tentacled Fungia Plate, Various Zoanthids, Trumpet colony, blue Anthelia orange Monti Caps, orange Monti digitata, various birdsnests, various Acroporas
Tank Size:
29 gallons
Advice:
Online resources are unlimited for this hobby. Read a ton before you set up a tank.
Description:
Full tank shot
Rated #14: 200 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Francois
Country: South Africa
Rank:
#14 out of 107 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Francois on
Ratings:
6.29
Number of votes:
147
Quote:
a reef tank is like driving a car, if you go to fast you will crash...
Fish Kept:
3 yellow tangs, 2 sailfin tangs, 1 purple tang, 2 regal tangs, 1 vlamingi, 1 shoulder tang 1 powder blue tang, 1 blonde naso tang, 1 scopas tang,2 skunk clowns, 2 tomato clowns, 2 occelaris clowns, 2 manderins, 1 scooter goby, 1 goldface goby, 1 sixline wrase, 2 purple dottybacks, 1 royal dottyback, 1 coral beauty, 2 green cromas, 3 skunk cleaner shrimp, 3 fire shrimp, blue knuckel hermits
Corals/Plants:
sps, leathers, anemones, mushrooms etc...
Tank Size:
200 gallons
Advice:
Google everything, read read read, you will never know enough... Regular water changes, ro/di water, good lighting, good flow, biggest skimmer you can fit...I run a good UV sterilizer and Ozone on timers, never lost a fish or a coral...
Description:
My reef in the making
Rated #15: 75 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: rob pascoe
Country: Wales
Rank:
#15 out of 107 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
rob pascoe on
Ratings:
6.25
Number of votes:
154
Fish Kept:
List coming soon.
Corals/Plants:
List coming soon.
Tank Size:
75 gallons
Advice:
It's not as hard as you think.
Start slowly and do your research.
Description:
My reef
Rated #16: 30 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: john
Country: Canada
Rank:
#16 out of 107 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
john on
Ratings:
6.23
Number of votes:
150
Quote:
were gunna need a bigger boat!
About Yourself:
Got into the hobby from my place of work, we sell both freshwater and saltwater products. Have owned only small tanks this 30 gallon is my largest so far and a 65 is in the works. Once I went saltwater I lost all interest in my freshwater cichlids as it seems much more interesting and awarding to experience keeping a reef aquarium as in a sense it is your own small ecosystem.
Fish Kept:
Yellow watchman goby,3xgreen chromis, 2xpercula clownfish, coral beauty angel
Corals/Plants:
Staghorn, purple acropora, green acropora, orange ricordea, green ricordea, pulsing xenia, blue xenia, green zoa's, orange zoa's, green hairy mushrooms, staghorn, green torch coral , green star polyp, open brain, pink goni, orange cerianthus tube anemone, rose bubble anemones, green bubble anemones, blueish purple torch, assorted mushrooms, toadstool leather
Tank Size:
30 gallons
Advice:
Patience is a virtue when begining your first saltwater tank do not rush.
Description:
30 gallon beauty, plenty of stock for a small tank :)
Rated #17: 70 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Joe B.
Country: United States
Rank:
#17 out of 107 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Joe B. on
Ratings:
6.22
Number of votes:
147
Quote:
go slow, let it grow
Fish Kept:
Fish:,
1 Banggai Cardinals ,
1 Harlequin Tusk (Aussie),
1 Ocellaris Clown ,
1 Coral Beauty Angel,
1 Royal Gramma ,
1 Flame Hawk ,
1 Yellow Watchman Goby,
1 Pearly Yellowhead Jawfish,
1 Mandarin Dragonet,
1 Green Clown Goby,
Clams:,
1 Maxima Clam, ,
Inverts:,
3 Rose Bubble-Tip Anemone,
1 Cleaner Shrimp,
40 Nassarius Snails ,
30 Blue-legged Hermits,
20 Tropheus Snails,
15 Astrea Snails, ,
Equipment:,
70g (30x30x18) cube w/ corner-flo,
60lbs Fiji Live Rock,
60lbs Aragonite sand,
eShopps RS-100 sump ,
Mag 9.5 return pump,
Reef Octopus NW-110 Skimmer,
300w Fluval E Heater,
Lumenmax 2 Pendant,
Galaxy select-a-watt ballast 250w/400w,
Radium 20K 250w bulb,
Tunze 3155 ATO w/ 10g reservoir
Corals/Plants:
<u>Corals</u><br>
Torch Coral <br>
Duncan Coral<br>
Frogspawn Coral<br>
Sinularia Leather Coral <br>
Multii-colored Mushrooms<br>
Hairy Mushrooms<br>
Pom Pom Xenia Coral <br>
Cabbage Leather Coral<br>
Red Montipora<br>
Green/Purple Star Polyps
Tank Size:
70 gallons
Advice:
Research, Patience, & Responsibility
Description:
70g CUBE
Rated #18: 60 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Mike Hoekstra
Country: United States
Rank:
#18 out of 107 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Mike Hoekstra on
Ratings:
6.21
Number of votes:
204
Fish Kept:
Mated pair of sailfin tangs, magnificent foxface, sixline wrasse, and yellow eye kole tang.
Corals/Plants:
Many sps, lps, clams, and softies.
Tank Size:
60 gallons
Advice:
Keep it simple, take your time.
Description:
My 60 Gallon cube with SPS, LPS, Softies, and Clams.
Rated #19: 150 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Fishguy
Country: Canada
Rank:
#19 out of 107 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Fishguy on
Ratings:
6.2
Number of votes:
159
Quote:
Who's your daddy?
About Yourself:
I love fish! If anyone needs to ask me any questions about my tank please feel free to email me.
Fish Kept:
16 Fish Total
Corals/Plants:
200 lbs of Live Rocks and over 25 corals.
Tank Size:
150 gallons
Advice:
Patience is key to having a clean and working aquarium.
Description:
55 Gallon Salt Water Reef Tank
Rated #20: 90 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Peter Roina
Country: United States
Rank:
#20 out of 107 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Peter Roina on
Ratings:
6.19
Number of votes:
166
Quote:
"That's what I said setting booby traps" Goonies
About Yourself:
I am new to Salt, been playing with cichlids for a few years, breeding them, collecting beautiful ones, just had to graduate to salt. I now have 5 salt tanks, and 7 cichlid tanks. We figure, since we can't live next to the water, we'll bring it to us, a tank in every room gets us through life.
Fish Kept:
Pair Ocillarus clowns, foxface rabbitfish, yellow eye tang, firefish, chromis', target mandarin goby, derasa clowns
Corals/Plants:
Rose anemone, mixed euphelia (including octopus), mixed zoos, stoneys, toadstool, donut coral, dendro, candycane, red flowerpot, red acans, lots of maze brains, favita, etc
Tank Size:
90 gallons
Advice:
Enjoy the process. The only thing that happens quickly in a reeftank is failure.
Description:
90 gal full view, mixed reef