My 29, Hex, 60 and 90 Reefs

[dt90gt]

So I just wanted to throw up pics of all my tanks, and decided 1 thread would be easiest. The 90 is the newest, it was setup around 2 months ago. Basically running no filtration other than LR and LS. I have a CPR knockoff, but it was spitting too many bubbles in the tank, so it is not running at the moment. Here are the pics of the 90, the Passer is about 2 days away from being moved to the 60 since he is eating my montis. Other fish in the tank are an Amphiprion Nigripes and some random gold/black goby.


http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/FishTanks/90Full.jpg

http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/FishTanks/90Back.jpg






Here are some photos of the 60 gallon. The second picture shows all the fish: Yellow Tang, Koran, and true percs. Just added a cleaner shrimp today as well, he was camera shy.

http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/FishTanks/60Full.jpg

http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/FishTanks/60LeftSide.jpg






Next are the shots of my 29. Only fish is a yasha goby, who has his pistol shrimp and a fire shrimp for company. I need a clown pair for this tank since it has 2 rbta and no clowns.

http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/FishTanks/29Full.jpg

http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/FishTanks/29Side.jpg







Lastly, here is my hex. Neon pseudo, Flame Angel, and CBS.

http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/FishTanks/HexFull.jpg







And I wanted to throw in a pic from my 90 gal, some blueish zoas which are gonna get fragged quickly, from Crystal Cove, thanks again Mike! haha

http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/FishTanks/BlueZoas.jpg






Soooooooooo that's about it for now. I have tons of pics of all the fish and corals in these tanks, let me know if you want close up shots of anything. Cam is a canon powershot 3 megapixel, so macro mode is only OK no matter how still the camera is held. Also, compliments and flames are welcome =)

Oh yeah, lights.
60 gal, 3 Home Depot 6500k normal fluorescents and 1 Magtinic fluorescent.
Hex 96 watt 50/50 quad pc.
29 Aquatraders 2x55w pc, 1 act 1 10k
90 Aquatraders 175w HQI + 2x13w? act.

[Nick_Kun]

very nice tanks man.

[malakaikingston]

Very natural looking, I like the 29 allot.

[cbm1101]

nice tanks.....that looks like a lot of work though :D

[simplepleasures]

Tanks look good. Yea it is time to start fraging and get that Passors out of there. It was nice meeting you the other day.

Casey

[nanoreefbro]

Nice pics of the tanks.. Do you have any equipment pics of the Hex?? I have an Oceanic 42 gal that I want to setup and wanted to get some ideas..

[Talkn2themike]

Whoa that plate looks totally diff in ur tank. I'm glad you dug all that stuff. Lemme know when you frag out those blue polyps. Your RBTA's are nuts looking man. How are those aquatrader lights treating ya?

[dt90gt]

Thanks guys!

malakaikingston - Ya, I like having the caulerpa in the tank. It can't live in the 60 or Hex cuz the yellow tang and flame eat it fast.

cbm1101 - haha yup, it is. I want to scale up to 2 large tanks so it is not so much work. Plus the Koran is already too big for the 60, and adding the Passer may cause all hell to break loose!

nanoreefbro - Ummmmm equipment??? Hex has a Prizm hang on back skimmer with the surface skimmer attachment and 2 aquaclear 301 powerheads! None of my tanks have sumps. 60 has a cpr skimmer, power heads, and a fluval with barely any media, mainly for flow. 29 has 1 aquaclear 301, small aquaclear hob and no skimmer. 90 has 2 powerheads.

Casey - good meeting you to, I'll let you know when I get off my ass to frag the shrooms and zoas!

Mike - Yup, I'll probably be selling some of the RBTA as well, the original 2 are now 5! The aquatraders lights rock, but I'll be replacing the bulbs soon. None of the corals have died or bleached under them. My pavona is actually doing better under the 2x55w aquatraders bulbs than it did in the hex under the coralife 96w 50/50. I'll probably go to Mike Parkis for the new bulbs, and to check out what he has in stock =)

[jbvdhp]

awesome man. i like all your tanks. looks like you put your time into them! i like those zoas you'll be fragging. care to sell some to me? =)

[dt90gt]

So that was fun. I took 90% of the rocks out so I could catch the passer. It is all good though, I wanted to frag the green and blue zoas, so that got taken care of as well, but it was a 3 hour ordeal to do the huge water change, pull all the coral and LR out then siphon the sand to remove the cyano. Stupid cyano, I hate you!

But now everything is back in the tank and the Passer is in my 60 playing hide-and-seek with the Yellow Tang and the getting-way-to-big-for-a-60 Koran.

Sometime in the next few weeks I'll probably be putting stuff up for sale. Basically some zoas and mushrooms, and possibly LR since I seem to have too much for my aquascaping!

[Talkn2themike]

Dibs on somo zoas

[dt90gt]

This aint no classified mofo!!


hahah j/k I got your back!

[dt90gt]

So I need to stop going to Crystal Cove!

Stopped by a few days ago, got a purple firefish, some bright green rics, and some cool wrasse. I don't know the name, so if anyone can ID it, that would be cool, I call it kick ass wrasse, actual size in pic. He is grubbing on all the pods in my tank. I was thinking about saving the pods for a mandarin, but I think this guy ate them all!

11891

[dt90gt]

So everything is doing good. Sold the 29 to Mike after the light broke, now teh 90 is fully stocked. I moved the Passer to the 60 gallon, so that tank is a little overloaded with the Koran turning into an adult, the 1.5" juv passer, yellow tang, perc pair, yasha goby and some shrimps. The 90 is starting to come together, the only fish I still want to add are a pair of Golden Headed Sleeper Gobies. Right now it has the Purple Firefish, African Leopard Wrasse, Blackfoot Clown, Potters Angel. I am trying to catch the clown so I can put the pair of Blackfoots in, but he is being a punk. I will post some pictures tomorrow once the lights turn on.

[SanDiegoReefs]

So your 90g has no sump or skimmer??

How often do you do water changes?

[dt90gt]

Dude, it went like the first 5 months without a skimmer!!!

I finally got it setup and working this week, CPR clone, and it is pulling boatloads of stuff out!! I had issues with microbubbles in the tank so I totally changed the entire intake setup to custom parts from Home Depot. It has a ball valve after the mj1200 to reduce flow, and a coralife pine airstone instead of the venturi setup. It is working great and I am goin to setup the second cpr clone soon.

The main problem for the past few months has been cyano algae. Even with the low fish load I think having no skimmer was the main problem for the cyano. There also was a small ich problem on the fish, but I think the tank is getting better now that it's more mature and has the skimmer running.

I have been doing water changes of about 3-4 buckets every 2 weeks. I would say that is about 15 gallons on lets say 65-70 gallons of actual water volume. Polyp extension is great on all the SPS, and I am looking to upgrade to a 14k or 20k bulb this month.

[Talkn2themike]

Have an pics of the mods to the cpr clone?

[aqua addict]

Yea, i've had the same problem with my skimmer, would love to see pics of the mods! Your anemone's look amazing by the way!

[dt90gt]

No pictures of the CPR, but I'll try to get some this week. My camera is in Maui with my brother, but I'll try to get some pics. I'll throw up some pics of the tank and inhabitants.

http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/2006May90gal.jpg

http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/Shrooms.jpg

http://www.treperformance.com/Nick/FirefishPotters.jpg