Thanks again Lalani and m'akoyPINOY. I've learn ssomething new again! That means I've got 2 females and 3 males if I'm rite. And Lalani your pics of shrimp are sexy and nice too!

Anyway, think I might plan to setup a 1 feet cube frag tank soon and might transfer afew sexy shrimp over for breeding.

Will keep following your thread and learn from you!

First off....That is a beautiful tank!!!

I just had almost the exact same tank built...except mine
is only 18" high. Which makes it a 45 gal...instead of a 60 gal.

Also, I cant help but point out..Two tangs in a 60 gal and no one
has said anything...lol If we were over at Reef Central the tang
police would be having a hissy fit right about now..LOL

cheers!!

How have I been missing this thread? I can't believe I just now found it. I was hooked from page 1!

Makes me want to go bigger... but I just moved into my 40 a couple of months ago.

Great work... I'll be tagging along on this one.

Thanks Reef Aquatics, yes i knew that. Actually I have only 1 blue tang now in my tank for quite awhile. Cos of it's handicap (lost 1 fin in a fight) I decide to keep it with me. Have sold off the other tang few months ago.



Thanks Pickle010, thanks for your kind words. Is encouraging to me. I'm learning too. So hope that we can learn something from each other.

j'field - your tank is by far the most beautiful tank that I have EVER seen! I am in awe! Thank you so much for sharing your tank with us! It makes me want to be a better reefer! Simply amazing!!!

Thanks so much therupert, my tank is very normal with very simple equipments. Comparing with many reefers with top notch equipments, setup and beautiful healthy corals, mine is still far apart!

Anyway, is my pleasure to be able to share my tank with you and I believe you can definitely do much better than me. Hope that we can learn from each other too

My new red zoas
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The colour of this acan is getting nicer
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Your tank is amazing - the colors blend together so well.

One question - what substrate/sand are you using? Is it gray or indo-pacific black....it looks like it from the FTS on pg. 6. I am thinking about trying some gray or black sand, but I'm still undecided. Thanks!

Thanks xbwolfx, I'm using live black sand from Nature’s Ocean.
Here's the link to share.
http://www.naturesocean.com/live_sand.htm

Imo, is quite a nice sand except that is abit expensive. It really brings out the colours of your corals!
My advice is that I would go for black instead of gray

Thanks for the info! Ideally I would like black sand. The problem is that I have an urchin that poops a lot and his poop looks just like regular white sand. With my current set-up with white sand it is fine b/c it blends right in with the rest of the sand. If I switch to pure black, then his poop is going to be very obvious and make the sand look awful. If I go with gray or the indo-pacific black/white mix it would be a lot less noticeable. I would get rid of the urchin b/c I am sick of it eating all of my coralline, but its my fiance's favorite thing in the tank and she would be mad if I got rid of it.

Thanks again!

You are welcome xbwolfx,

Anyway, my reason for not choosing grey or mixture of black and white sand is that is neither here or there.
Anyway, think it's will look very cute if you can see the white poo on the black sand. And you also make the urchin sound comical and amusing too

At last after more than a month, finally see my pompom crab for the first time! And intially it have only one pompom, but now it has two! One on each claw!
Will try to post a pic of it soon!

Well that's good news, I guess he split his one into two.

Looks AWESOME, another how did I miss it!

Thanks Lalani and SeeDemTails. Here a pic of that little fellow. Quite difficult to take a pic of it as is always hiding.
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A latest view of my zoas
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Have added 2 cute little bumble bee shrimp
Will update pics soon!

jay, tank is looking beautiful. nice shot of those zoas.

I absolutely love your little zoa garden, its beautiful! Do you feed your zoas or any other corals?

Thanks abe and ddr_phish. I dun really feed them. But I do dose very little / a drop of iodine a day and make my own mixture of food for both the fish and corals. I target feed in the past by find that my corals seems more stress. So now I only dump in the food that I had prepared in very small amount with my pump off during feeding.

I also have 2 tubes of T5 blue lights and 2 actinic lights to flourence the color. Maybe all this plays a little part.

Great zoas!

Thanks SeeDemTails, here's a pics of my zoas. I have put 2 small rocks near the zoas. Hopefully it will grow over it soon.
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A pic of my favourite torch coral. It have grown quite alot.
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Another pic of this cute little fellow. Juz look at that 2 pompom it is carrying. Is glowing.
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My new bumble bee shrimp. Got 2 of them in my tank Very cute and tiny. Just about 2.5cm long
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I wish my pompom crab would come out in the open - mine just hides

Do you mind me asking what your food mixture contains? I mainly do live phytoplankton and occasionally cyclopeeze.

Hi L34NN3, my pompom crab also comes out only once in a long time. And I only sees it after more than a month in my tank



Hi ddr_phish, these are the food mixture. I will try to take a pic of all the bottles to show.
1) AquaPharm / 5-in-1 coral food
2) CORALIFE / Invertebrate Target Food
3) Argent Cyclop-Eeze
4) MEGA ONE / Marine pellets
5) OCEAN NUTRITION / Nano Reef Coral Food
6) Fish Flakes
7) Dried Shrimp
8) Hikari Frozen Mysis Shrimp

Update?

how aggressive is your torch?

Sorry lilredneckman, have been busy serving my nation the past few weeks. Will catch up wif some new updates soon.



Yes iglowce! They are very aggressive! Imo, I feel that any corals will be more aggressive if they are very healthy.
For eg, I have a favia that stings my echinata in the past but as my echinata grew more healthier, it stings back and I gotta separate them even more apart.
But of cos some are more aggressive than others by nature.

There you go. Some bit of updates. No much changes as my tank is full now!

Colorful!
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One of my new cheap zoa. Get it real cheap.
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Peekaboo! My little yasha and little pistol is hiding.
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Same old stuff! Just that some seems to grow slightly bigger

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same old comment, tank is looking great and awesome!

Where did you get such amazing Cloves, and what are they called???

You tank is still STUNNING!

Thanks Toomin and ddr_phish.
Hi ddr_phish, I bought the clove polyp in a lfs in my country quite sometime ago. And what are they call?? Arn't they call clove polyp? Or do they have other names?

Well I know they are clove polyps

I meant the coloration name, if it had one lol

OIC, I'm not too sure myself either Anyone noes care to share?

Looks awesome, I love your tank!

NICE.

Thanks SeeDemTails and adinsxq.
Here's afew more pics to share

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Adin lives!!!!!!! Beautiful tank j'field!

That is one mighty sexy tank!

Thanks lilredneckman and Lalani for your kind words.

Is encouraging to hear nice comments from ppl with nice tank

j'field,i'm going to say it again!

one of the best tank!

Beautiful pics. Can't think what else to say other than keep them coming

This tank is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am at a loss for words!

Yes please, more pics....I dont even care if they are of the same coral!

bumble bee shrimp eat starfish....they are lil harliquins

Thanks all once again for the kind words
Will try to post more pics soon.



Yes hxcaquaman, thanks for the warning. I've done abit of research on it too. And I'm glad too know that they can survive without eating starfish too although their main diet is starfish.
Cos I don't have any starfish in my tank and the shrimp is still doing fine till now.

Just sharing different views of my tank from different angle in my room

A view of the right side of tank from outside my room
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A view of the left side of tank
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Lastly a FTS. Like what I say, nothing much changes actually. Still more or less the same old look.
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Haha, just sharing afew of my DIY sneakers. Not so marine.

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Same old beautiful look!!! I wish I could get that range of colour in my tank