BluCrab Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 So I made the plunge into the salty game after rocking the fresh water set ups on and off for over 30yrs. My older brother used to tell my how much a pain in the arse his 75 gallon salty was ,so it kept me from trying it. To start off I seached online and finally found a great deal via http://www.marinedepot.com/ , which saved me about $150 bucks compaired to LFS and other websites. Well that allowed me to spend that $150 on live sand,live rock and 25 gallons of R/O saltwater from the LFS. 29 Gallon Coral Life Biocube includes 13 lbs of Fuji Live rock from TnT Fish and Reef (LFS) 20 lbs of Caribsea Arag- Alive Indo-Pacific Black It's Godzilla!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Updated items... as of May1st 2014 Lighting= Kessil A150W Ocean Blue (open top) Return Pump= Colbalt MJ1200 25 lbs of mixed live rock (Pukani and Fuji) Gutted out back chamber 2, added 3lbs of live rock ,cheato and Fluval PC 13 lighting. Fliter floss in chamber 1 and Chempure Elite in Chamber 3 as media. Live stock... SPS Green Birdsnest Meteor Shower Cyphastrea LPS Duncans Blastos Rose Bubble Tip Anemone Mushrooms Rhodactis 1 green, 1 orange and teal Actinodiscus 1 blue, 2 red ZOA mixed 5 different types. Inverts 1 Red Blood shrimp ,5+ Red Torch snails , 10+ blue legged Hermit Crabs Fish... 3 juvi Percula Clownfish 1 Coral Beauty Angelfish 1 Six line Wrassle FTS as of May 1st, 2014 Updated FTS Jan 3rd 2015 Updated FTS as of OCT 2015 1 Link to comment
BluCrab Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 a few weeks later my #s are great and I started to add a few boogers to the tank. First up.. Coral Brand Shrimp : Candy man Branching Hammer Maroon Clownfish : Charlie Brown the Clown (wife and kids named it) I call him the Aggie Clown Also added Peppermint Shrimp : Peppermint Patty Button Polyps 1 Link to comment
BluCrab Posted January 16, 2013 Author Share Posted January 16, 2013 updated.. added 2 1/2 pounds of Tonga branch and 2 more lbs of Fuji live rock plus... 2 Mexican Turbos and 2 Astraea Turbo snails going to skip on adding a skimmer, added a bag of boyd's Chempure Elite and it has jucied up the colors on my fish and they are more active now. Link to comment
eitallent Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 It all looks so good. Love the name Charlie Brown! Very appropriate for the brown clown. Welcome to Nano-Reef. 1 Link to comment
BluCrab Posted January 17, 2013 Author Share Posted January 17, 2013 Thank you! This site has been a big help and with good folks too. Link to comment
acrab78 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Like the "aggie" clown! Gig em! 1 Link to comment
BluCrab Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 So yesterday I finally added a Hydor Koralia 425. Thinking of adding a second with a wave maker. Just adding one improved the flow and the cleared up the dead spots in the back of my tank. Next I'm going to replace the stock pump soon. Just looking into which one is best. Here are some updated pictures. Braching Hammer Here's the Hitchhicker Shroon I thought was a clam at first. He's alive! Can anyone ID these buttons for me? Link to comment
BluCrab Posted February 4, 2013 Author Share Posted February 4, 2013 Two months in and more live rock. I'm still trying to Id those long buttons, they have a bowtie design in the middle. Link to comment
BluCrab Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 4 months now and things are looking great. A few of the frags (jedi Monti, Purple Stylo and the Duel Branching hammers) are going to be moved to my 48 gall along with my Carpenter Fairy Wrasse in about a month once my lights come in . Link to comment
BluCrab Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 a few updated shots july 2013 Link to comment
BluCrab Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 updated FTS 1/2014 Re aquascaped. just got rid of the Long nose Puffer due to him plucking my zoas. Ended up turning this bio cube into a softy tank due to the stock lights. Link to comment
BluCrab Posted January 27, 2014 Author Share Posted January 27, 2014 Updated Aquarscape 1/25/2014 Link to comment
BluCrab Posted April 14, 2014 Author Share Posted April 14, 2014 Updated FISH TANK SHOT 3/28 upgraded stock lighting with a Kessil A150W Ocean Blue Link to comment
BluCrab Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 End of the year update. Nov marked the 2 yr anniversary of when I first set up my first ever marine /coral set up. Dec marked the 2 yr of having live stock in it. I've broke this tank down once when I moved it to another end of the Blu room. As you'll see I've made many changes over the year. So I went and did it and made this a Zoanthus ,Palythoa, and mushroom specific tank. I also have a nice red blasto , red blood shrimp , mixed snails ,hermits, a peppermint shrimp and fighting conch. 1 juv Perc Clown. My plan is to pimp it out with a zoa wall and start slanging some shrooms. Also adding more inverts and one more fish. check out the before and after Christmas videos. Link to comment
BluCrab Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Updated FTS 1/3/2015 Link to comment
reefernanoman Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 How's that kessil working out for you? it looks good to me. Nice tank. Link to comment
BluCrab Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 It's working out great so far,I ended up buying a strip of Blue Led's for moon lighting. The kids (me included) love the way it looks at night under actinic. If I could do it all over again I'd go with the new 160W since you can fool with the color more. as far as growth I've seen some zoanthids explode and some just pop a head or two here and there. Now the mushrooms on the other hand have been popping babies all over the place. Since I'm running the 2nd chamber with Cheato / live rock and a light ,I currently have no plans on running a skimmer so I ended up making this a Zoa/Paly/mushroom tank. As far as live stock I have as follows... 1 Mandiran Dragonet 1 fighting conch 1 red blood shrimp 1 peppermint shrimp 1 skunk cleaner shrimp 3 bumble bee shrimp a few blue legged hermits a few torch snails 3 heads of Red Blasto Link to comment
BOMBreef Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Great videos your tank is doing great!...I'll be headed to Houston tomorrow for business. Any LFS worthy of checking out while I'm there? Link to comment
reefernanoman Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Great videos your tank is doing great!...I'll be headed to Houston tomorrow for business. Any LFS worthy of checking out while I'm there? Got to add a little pleasure to business huh? I went to Miami last year and never thought about going to a LFS, since that would tick my wife off on vacation LOL. Link to comment
BluCrab Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Heck yeah, we're lucky down here now a days when it comes to LFS . The one I recommend for healthy,high end sexy coral selection is http://fjwaquarium.com/ ,talk to Dennis. We have a few more places around town like Cinco Ranch Aquariums, TnT Fish and Reef, The Fish Gallery and City Pets. Next month Houston is hosting it's 2nd Annual Reef Currents http://www.reefcurrents.org/, Welcome to Houston and I hope you enjoy your stay. Link to comment
BOMBreef Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Right on thanks!...only about 20 minutes from where I'm staying. Hopefully I can drop by before I head out of town! Link to comment
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