Hello,

My simple sun coral biotope, consisting of tubastrea, rhizo, balanophyllia sp.

This is a very cool tank, I like the aquascape, you don't see many sun coral only tanks either.

What kind of equipment are you running? What size tank is it?

48x24x15 - shallow for ease of feeding

Aquamedic Shorty II
Eheim 1262 & 1260
2 x 54 watts T5HO
Seio 820 & Tunze 6025
7G RDSB
Outdoor compressor + 1 HP titianium coil resun

yellow tangs can survive in biotopes? ive never done one so plz ignore the noobness in that q

Wow! It's very simple, but the coral colors really pop out.

Being a biotope doesn't determine if tangs can be kept. It just means that a specific set of livestock is the main focus (in this case sun corals).

I have also
regal tang
5 clown fish
blue star fish
1 royal gamma
1 blue devil damsel

oops, i always think biotopes mean cold water, idk why it just seems like it would

tank is gorgeous by the way

thank you all for the kind feedback

Beautiful pics!!Thats a fantastic looking biotope.

Vey nice. How do you feed them? IME I've had trouble with fish stealing the coral's food if I spot feed, but I know there are other ways.
What temp. are you running? I've never heard of anyone having Tubastrea's (tropical corals) and Balanophyllia's (cold wter corals) in the same tank?! But then, I'd never heard of Balanophyllia's until just now

beautiful tank, very nice aquascaping! I envy the setup, but not the workload

Wow, gorgeous tank!

I feed them usually with tweezers. Yes the fish do come, only after i leave the fish tank. They snatch it from Sun's tentacles. I cannot help that though

The aquarium temp is about 26 degrees C.



LOL, the tangs u mean. Yes you are the second person who told me that.




thanks



thanx too

wow dude that is very sick!

GORGEOUS

practising my dslr shots

updated

That poor yellow tang looks cramped in your small tank, it's messed up if you ask me..

THAT IS A SWEET TANK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE TANG IS COOL .IT WELL DO GREAT.MY FRIEND HAD ONE IN CUSTOM 18 GAL FROM BABY THAT FISH IS NOW 6 YEARS OLD.

awesome tank. sun coral is 1 of my fav corals

IM SURE THE TANG LOVED BEING IN A 18 GALLON......

Umm, look at the dimensions. It's roughly 75 gallons when empty. I wouldn't call that a small tank.

it is not too bad, it has 48" by 24" (L x W), large surface area. Just the height is shallow. If u ask me it is worst for regal tang, the shape of regal is made for fast swim, vs. yellow tang whose body is made for quick dashes. Thanks



thanks, but i need to add a dash of colors now



great to hear.

Wow, that is an awsome tank. You take awsome pics of it too. I've never seen a suncoral that impressed me as much as yours do since the lfs I was limited to was mainly just b-grade stuff at best, but those shots have made me rethink how impressive they can be.

Thanx

BTW i just got tunicates and red chili which has yet to open

sick tank

sick? dun get u

yes.. achoo achoo


lol no its a compliment.. sick/cool/nice however you wanna look at it.

Oh I see. hehe not familiar with the terms here.

thanx

yea man. . what do you feed/ how often?

timetable varies.


cyclopeeze, gold pearls, frozen mysis shrimp, my own blend of seafood and
DT plankton (just got it this week)

lol...tangs...

I had a bunch of sun coral...i couldn't stand all that feeding I stick to stuff I can feed once or twice a week now

Nice pics!

slick

What is the blue one...?

nice happy sun corals! do you feed them individually every night?

cyclopeeze daily at same time, every 2-3 days mysis shrimp and or home blended seafood, and once a week, market prawns soaked in Selcon.

been almost a month, made some additions and changes to scaping

last Gathering with a few reefers was good and subsequent discussion with my buddies offline, I knew what type and quantity of azoo corals I will have after self thinking / reflection.

Here is the final scape. Amongst which there are 4 live rocks (2 big & 2 medium) secured with plastic fasters for permanent structure.

Although the aquarium is rather empty, but the formation of the LR is rigid now. I created 2 caves and a channel between the 2 caves. Both caves are unique; 1 is open inside and the other dark errie mysterious.

Here is the left side: (made of 1 blouder on left with 2 "secured" LR and 1 flat LR covering the top. The back LR is not connected but placed at the back for illusion of depth and another flat LR to shade the cave from lights. Total of 4 and 2 flat pieces)



Here is the right side:

Made of 2 very large LR tied to 2 fasters and 3rd LR to fill the back. A flat LR cover the top for shade
The front of this section, I place a small LR and place a large unique flat LR making it like roof which fish can swim under.



Looking deeper to the right under the ledge (roof) is dark errie mini cave



Using flash I shot a deeper pic, it is narrow route passage for small fish...like a skeleton of LR lol

home to blue devil damsel




the LR were scaped Dry on the floor.
LR were fasten with plastic faster prior to reintroduction to the aquarium.
After delighted with the dry scape, I moved piece by piece, section by section into the cloudy tank.

In fact i did it blindly as i could not see what i did, but i turned out great.

Now, if the LR will be cover with corraline algae and more corals r filled up, i believe it will be great



some updates, got myself a seafan ( Acalycigorgia sp - i think ) 2 weekends ago
been feeding it fine particles 3 times a day. Tested No3, remain the same as last week...phew
Initially it didnt open fully, but after a few days it has. Here is a picture of it.

Boy it was difficult take the small polyps, and got more room to improve.

Your pictures are amazing!!!
Thanks for sharing!

new updates

Very nice looking tank!

Oh, and your pictures are STUNNING!

davidr2340 & Chaloupa,

thanx for your comments

dslr helps

finally i managed to get an full shot of the purple menella sp

one of my fav and best tanks on the site.

awesome AWESOME pics too.

=]

in the week ended 19 Oct 2008, I got myself a blue berry seafan, here is update of its status after 1 1/2 months




Just before Oct birthday, I got myself a yellow dendro to "try"
after 2 months, it has slowly increased its height. Here is a picture using normal lens and fingers as tripod

Keith can u ID this?
I hope next year end it would have grown taller.
Note: I have a purple dendro which getting smaller whereas this is very slowly growing (i hope)



can u help ID this seafan got this during Aquafair:P

Beautiful tank! My next project is going to be an azoo tank.

rhizo = a whole lot of freakin money.

beautiful rockwork.

i really like the tube anemone. if only they weren't so vicious w/ the sting...

Wow

^^^^^^^^

Really gorgeous tank, good luck keeping those seafans alive.

thanx....tube anemone? feather duster or coco worm u mean?

that rhizo is about 65USD (after conversion)

rockwork had some changes to cater for more seafans