Top 71 - 80 Reef Tanks 2011
Rated #71: 275 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Byron
Country: Australia
Rank:
#71 out of 106 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Byron on
Ratings:
4.93
Number of votes:
160
Quote:
try harder
Fish Kept:
chromis
yellow banded clowns
godies
dragonettes
mimic tang
6x powder blue tang
6x yellow tang
naso tang
copperband butterfly fish
gobbies
flame angel
falco hawk fish
creaner wrasse
2x camel shrimp
2x red line shrimp
Corals/Plants:
SPS
LPS
and Soft corals
Anemone
Tank Size:
275 gallons
Advice:
Do your research
Description:
800L reef tank
Rated #72: 100 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: happyrc
Country: United States
Rank:
#72 out of 106 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
happyrc on
Ratings:
4.92
Number of votes:
240
About Yourself:
Been doing saltwater FOWLR since 2000 (no experience with corals).
Corals/Plants:
chaeto
Tank Size:
100 gallons
Advice:
Anything in living room needs the wife approval so I would recommend the book "The Inspired Aquarium" by Jeff Senske and Mike Senske.
- The Tropical Marine Fish Survival Manual by Gordon kay
- Marine Fishes by Scott W. Michael
- 500 Ways to be a better saltwater fishkeeper
- The Conscientious Marine Aquarist
- Aquariums for Dummies
MY BOTTOM LINE ADVICE:
0. MOST IMPORTANT: This hobby is expensive. This setup is $2500 with a used tank and used live rock. This setup new would be $4000. Add $400 for dead fish... I lost half the livestock in the first 6 months while the tank is getting stabilized. Annual costs $300 for salt, electric, bulbs, replace broken equipment, frozen food.
2. Maintain the best water quality (get a Reef Octopus BH2000 protein skimmer with external pump to minimize heat. Don't buy the useless AquaC Remora protein skimmer because it's noisy, has ugly pump inside your tank, adds heat to your water, and I've only seen it work with the water as dirty yellow instead of clear water)
4. Butterfly fish (even heniochus so I gave up after the 4th one died due to aggression from emperor angel, coral beauty, singapore angel and yellow tang) are very very fragile so don't waste your money.
5. Use Selcon food additive to prevent HLLE disease.
Description:
wide 100 gallons tank with Emperor, tangs, angels.
Rated #73: 90 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: john smith
Country: United States
Rank:
#73 out of 106 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
john smith on
Ratings:
4.91
Number of votes:
154
Quote:
failure is always an option
Fish Kept:
60 hermits, 1 emerald crab, 1 horse shoe crab, 1 watchman goby, 2 brittle stars, 2 sea cucumbers, 4 turbo snails, 40 nassarius snails
Corals/Plants:
1 gorgonian, green star polyps, purple star polyps, cactus coral, green and purple candy cane, fiji cup coral, purple and red mushroom anemones, colt coral, kenya trees, green zoas, birdsnest, and frogspawn
Tank Size:
90 gallons
Advice:
ask questions everywhere
Description:
90 gallon reef
Rated #74: 90 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Sean
Country: United States
Rank:
#74 out of 106 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Sean on
Ratings:
4.85
Number of votes:
157
Quote:
You play to Win the Game!
About Yourself:
I like sports, fishing, girls, betting, and fish tanks.
Fish Kept:
2 clownfish, 6 line wrasse,1 royal gramma,cleaner shrimp, Yellow tang, flasher wrasse,and 2 cardinals
Corals/Plants:
frogspawns, random polyps,mushrooms, acropora, clam, echinata, chalices, tachy,war coral,acans....
Tank Size:
90 gallons
Advice:
Research, be patient, research, be patient, be patient, research, then buy, be patient, research.........
Description:
28g JBJ Nano Cube HQI.
Rated #75: 29 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Zack
Country: United States
Rank:
#75 out of 106 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Zack on
Ratings:
4.83
Number of votes:
151
About Yourself:
My dad took me to OC Tropical Fish and I was hooked. If you have 15mins a day to care for some friends you will love it...
Fish Kept:
Blue Hippo Tang, Percula Clownfish, Yellow Tail Dansels, Coral Banded Shrimp
Corals/Plants:
Purple Tip Frogs Pawn, Green Closed Brain Coral, Blue Mushrooms, Fluorescent Green Mushrooms, Toadstool, Palm Trees, Green Bay Packer Zooanthids, Orange Skirt Polyps, Electric Crocea Clams,Bright Green Montipora Digitata,Bright Yellow Polyps
Tank Size:
29 gallons
Advice:
1. Lots of live rock, crabs, and snails.
2. Pick your friends wisely.
3. Keep your water clean 20% a week.
4. Run your Magnet cleaner once a day.
5. Feed your fish 3 times a day small amounts. They will love you...
Description:
I wanted to feel I was right there in my tank. Some of my dreams start off right here. I will have the most fantastic dream sometimes. A Mermaid appears...Oh Ya..
Rated #76: 45 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: kevin45
Country: United States
Rank:
#76 out of 106 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
kevin45 on
Ratings:
4.83
Number of votes:
145
Quote:
no such thing as a dumb question only stupid answer
Fish Kept:
not many
Corals/Plants:
sps,lps
Tank Size:
45 gallons
Advice:
read ask lots of questions
Description:
45 cube
Rated #77: 124 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: mike
Country: United States
Rank:
#77 out of 106 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
mike on
Ratings:
4.83
Number of votes:
144
Fish Kept:
2-mandarin dragonettes 1 scooter blenny ,1-yellow tang, 2-blue damsels 1-yellowtail damsel,1-lawnmower blenny,1-bengi cardinal,1 chocolate triggerfish,1-clarks clown, 1-true percula clown,2- coral banded mated pair,1 purple lobster,5 peppermint shrimp 2pistol shrimp mated pair astrea snails pincushion urchin starfish cerith snails nassarius snails star astreas green wart sea slug green lettus sea slug sexy anemone shrimpemerald crabs pom pom crabs blue knuckle hermit electric blue hermit dwarf blue leg hermits tube worms coco worms feather dusters copepods amphipods rotifers phyto-and zooplankton 1-condy anemone derassa clam
Corals/Plants:
acropora sp 5 specie torch coral frog spawn kenya tree pom pom xenia ricordea red mushrooms zoanthids palythoas button polyps rainbow acan ausi lord neon green maze brain maroon brain toadstool leather elephant ear mushroom candycane coral green and pink star polyps platinum torch dendrophyllia sun coral duncans pagoda coral yellow sea sponge caulerpa chaetomorpha red titan macro algae and ton ton more too much to name
Tank Size:
124 gallons
Advice:
K.I.S.S.
Description:
one of my tanks
Rated #78: 150 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: christopher
Country: United States
Rank:
#78 out of 106 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
christopher on
Ratings:
4.82
Number of votes:
226
Quote:
Fish Kept:
blue tang,clown fish andtrigger clown
tank is not done yet
Corals/Plants:
hammer coral
mushroom
clam
umbrella coral
tank not done yet
Tank Size:
150 gallons
Advice:
pic 1 theory and stick with it
Description:
not done yet
Rated #79: 800 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: Justin
Country: Australia
Rank:
#79 out of 106 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
Justin on
Ratings:
4.82
Number of votes:
158
About Yourself:
I was planning my house and decided a aquarium room divider was a good idea, after a few quotes i decided building the tank would be cheaper and more rewarding so with the help of my father in-law we built the tank, Electrician by trade with no real aquarium experience, knowledge from books/internet.
Fish Kept:
some
Corals/Plants:
minimal at the moment waiting for more rock for fathers day.
Tank Size:
800 gallons
Advice:
Have a go, bigger is better, I THINK?
Description:
About 1/3 stocked currently 160kg live rock with various corals, anemones, shrimp, prawns, crabs, starfish and fish
Rated #80: 24 Gallons Reef Tank
Username: AhBella
Country: United States
Rank:
#80 out of 106 Reef Tanks submitted 2011
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Submitted By:
AhBella on
Ratings:
4.78
Number of votes:
156
Quote:
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
About Yourself:
My father had a 55 gallon plexi-glass tank I used to watch it and the fish smiled at me, he passed away in 09, I am trying my hardest to carry on his hobby and honestly am learning a lot about the passion he had for the ocean and the hobby. I am a Supervisor at H&D.
Fish Kept:
None at moment still deciding
Corals/Plants:
none
Tank Size:
24 gallons
Advice:
Take baby steps and read, read, read, about everything. :)
Description:
New cycling tank as of 06/15/2011 it is 6 weeks old