ATTENTION CUSTOM CONTESTANTS!

[Gilman]

In this thread, all [CUSTOM] contestants must post 2 photos of their contest entries.

 

Photo #1

Current photo of your contest entry that includes holding a toothbrush in the shot to prove it is current.

 

Photo #2

Photo of your contest entry in all its glory without the toothbrush.

 

Please include tank specs and livestock list in your post!

 

You have a week (possibly a little more) so GET MOVING!

 

GO

 

ps. dont post in this thread without following directions above.

[paco1l1d]

Well I was the last to register, so I'll be the first to update.

TOOTHBRUSH!

 

And an updated:

 

 

Specs:

Equipment:

2.5 minibow

Strange walmart brand filter/fuge

Coralife mini aqualight 1-actinic 1-10,000K(soon to be 2-10,000K)

Yeah thats it.

 

Livestock:

Bam bam orange zoas

orage widow zoas

pink zoas/palys (large colony is being moved back to main)

Brown Xenia

Anthelia

Candy cane

Red and green blasto

teal and green blasto

greenish ricordia

brown/green pimpled mushroom

red green and purple zoas

purple and blue acan/blasto?

star polyps

SMALL long tent. toadstool.

green toadstool (may be moved but is REALLY liking this tank)

clove polyps

halimedia

sawblade carpula

I think thats it.

 

3 lbs liverock

3lbs grey sand/ocilite stuff

[Tigahboy]

 

 

Specs:

Custom Acrylic 23x5x5"

Surge Device - 2.5g AGA sump

23" T5 Finnex fixture - 48w (2x24w)

Quiet One 1200 pump

Hagen Mini Compact Heater 25w

Chemipure

 

Livestock:

Green Blastomussa Wellsi

Orange Tubastrea - Sun Coral

Green Ric Yuma

Red/Pink & White Ric Yuma

Red Micromussa amak.

Orange Zoanthids

Blue Spot Mushroom

Blue Mushroom

Blue Lithophyllon

Pink Sparlklies Palythoas

Red Blasto Wellsi

Electric Green Zoanthids

Peach Center Denim Zoanthids

Blue Star Zoanthids

Red-Pink Echinophyllia

2 feather dusters

Red-Grey-Green Acanthastrea Lordhowensis

Blue Candy Cane

Green Rhodactis

 

3lb Fiji Premium

3lb Tahitian Black Sand

[jmorris]

 

 

The identification of all specimens below was done to the best of my ability using

multiple published and online resources. At the very least, All IDs should be accurate to the Genus.

 

SPS tank

 

Fish

1 – Eviotea sp. Goby, red and white w/ blue eye markings

2 – Trimma sp. Goby, solid red

 

Inverts

3 – orange turbo snails

1 – astrea snail

2 – tricolor (dwarf blue legged) hermit crabs

 

Corals

1 – Acropora sp., neon yellow w/ neon green tips and polyps

1 – Acropora sp., bluish-purple w/ blue polyps

1 – Acropora sp., “Chip’s Acro”

1 – Acropora sp., (stag) blue/purple

1 – Acropora sp, gold/green w/ purple tips and brown polyps

1 – Acropora millipora, green/yellow

1 – Acropora sp., brown w/ yellow polyps

2 – Acropora valida, "tricolor" (cream/purple/green with yellow polyps)

1 – Montipora capricornis, brown/lavender

1 – Montipora capricornis, orange

2 – Montipora digitata, green w/ orange polyps

1 – Montipora digitata, purple

2 – Montipora sp., encrusting, green

1 – Montipora sp., encrusting, purple

1 – Pociloporra sp., pink with green polyps

1 – Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata (possibly Muriceopsis flavida), purple plume gorgonian

2 – Seriatopora hystrix, pink birdsnest

1 – Stylophora pistillata, pink

 

Other

Cladophora prolifera (macroalgae)

 

Refugium

 

Inverts

1 – astrea snail

numerous bristle worms, bivalves, tunicates, and other hitchhikers

 

Macro Algae

Ulva lactuca

Caulerpa scalpelliformis (possibly C. serrulata)

Padina pavonica

Gracilaria sp.

Scinaia sp.

Halimeda sp.

Chaetomorpha aerea

Dictoyta sp.

Avrainvillea sp.

 

Equipment

 

2.5 gallon 8"x8"x9" main tank, and matching refugium, with about 7 lbs LR between them. The main tank has a 4" by 4" external overflow tower which uses a 1" drain and a Hoffer Gurgle Buster standpipe to drain into the 2.5 gallon mini-bow sump The sump holds an additional 3-5 lbs LR, a bag of purigen, an iceprobe chiller, a 100w AGA heater, and a slightly modified Lee's air-driven counter-current skimmer.

 

Lighting on the main tank is accomplished by a 70 watt MH retrofit (Regent Flood light DIY) powered by a WPI electric ballast; I'm using a 14K Astralux bulb. The refugium is lit by a 27 watt DIY PC retrofit wit ha 6700K Lights of America bulb.

 

A Mag 5 return pump runs through a 1/2" CPVC horizontal perimeter manifold on the main tank, and a 1/2" CPVC "T" manifold in the back of the refugium. I plan on upgrading to a Mag 7 for the return soon. A Mag 3.5 CLS pump is used for additional circulation, and runs through a SCWD and out 2 1/2" loc-lines each terminating in 1/2" Y fittings.

 

There's a total of 6 fans on the system (one on the iceprobe, two in the MH canopy, one in the PC refugium canopy, one blowing over the CLS pump, and another blowing over the main return pump). I will soon be adding another fan to blow across the surface of the water in the sump.

 

The ATO is a 2 gallon reservoir with an aqualifter pump connected to a float switch. I go through 2 gallons top off water every 4 days or so.

 

And.... There you have it.

 

Jared

[Ann]

 

 

Equipment

Standard UK glass tank (12 x 8 x 8)

DIY glass ‘refugium’ (12 x 4.75 x 8)

Micro-jet 450 pump

50W Hagen Tronic Heaterstat

Fluval 1 plus internal filter (containing carbon and polyfilter)

Lighting: 2 x 18W 50/50 compact T5 tubes (over the main tank) + 1 x 18W Daylight tube (over the refugium)

50mm case fan to keep things cool

Aquadoser set on a timer for freshwater top off

 

Livestock

Various zoanthid colonies

2 colour morphs of Ricordea florida mushrooms

Ricordea yuma mushroom

Red Discosoma sp. mushroom

Fungia sp.

Blastomussa wellsi

Blastomussa merleti

Bubble coral, Plerogyra sinuosa

Hitchhiker pink tunicates

2 dwarf blue-legged hermit crabs, Clibanarius tricolor

2 Dove snails, Euplica sp.

Stomatella sp. snails

Chaetomorpha sp. algae in the refugium

 

 

Best regards

 

Ann

[shivametimbas]

 

EQUIPMENT

2.5 mini-bow

2x18watt 50/50 pc lighting

AC50 fuge

25w stealth heater

palm light for fuge

 

LIVESTOCK

1 greenbar goby

1 peppermint shrimp

3 small astrea snails

2 small hermits

 

star polyps

various zoanthids

caulastrea

frogspawn

ricordia

var. mushrooms

single "sun coral" polyp

2 polyp clove frag

1 polyp anthelia (sp?) frag

1 sps frag(throw-in from a lfs,forgot name)

[Fishfreak218]

Here is Mine:

 

 

 

Equipment:

Black Silicone 2.5g tank (unknown maker)

AGA 50w Heater (made by Hydor)

2x18w Coralife 9" lights

Aquaclear 20

 

Livestock:

2 Orange Ricordea

5 Green Ricordea

4 Mushrooms (3 blue/purple spoted and the other Green Mottled)

1 Anemone Shrimp ( Periclimenes brevicarpalis )

2 Dwarf Blue Leg hermits (MR and Mrs. Crabs)

1 Green Bubble Coral

1 Frogspawn

Caulerpa (soon to be removed)

4-5 bls of LR

3 Feather Dusters

1 Orange Sea Squirt

Green Star Polyps

4-5 Polyps of Mint Green Zoanthids

 

P.S. OMG .. lol.. me and Ann have the same toothbrush ...lol

[icenine]

'scuse the dirty glass:

 

 

 

Equiment:

 

Standard AGA 2.5 gallon

AC20 hob filter

25w AGA heater

2x18w coralife 50/50 compact PCs

2 PC fans

 

Livestock:

 

1 porcelain anemone crab

2 mini carpet anemones ( Stichodactyla tapetum if you want to get specific )

1 rock/flower anemone ( Epicystis crucifer)

25 zoanthoid/palythoa morphs in various colors (I'm too lazy to get more specific than that)

1 green open brain

1 bright red blasto polyp (with an itty bitty babie)

1 blue mushroom

1 blue florida ricordia

2 Tongan nass snails

2 black nass snails

1 rather large stomatellid snail

1 orange serpent star

1/2 dozen mini brittle stars

1 gazzillion pods

Pulsing xenia

[Xytrix01]

 

 

Equiptment:

The basics:

-2.5gal AGA tank drilled /w custom acrylic overflow

-Tee style overflow scilencer

-5.0gal painters bucket sump

-75W Ebo-Jager glass heater

-Penguin 1440 in-sump return pump

-Dual outlet 1/2"i.d. return manifold

-Tiny off brand powerhead for extra flow

-Maxi-jet 600 pump for skimmer

-Custom built UTR nanoskimmer

 

Lighting:

-Custom built hood

-3x Coralife 20W 50/50 screw in bulbs

-Dual 1.5" exhaust fans

 

Livestock:

-Pulsing Xenia

-Orange plate coral

-Bush coral (I forgot the name already!)

-2x Small ricordia mushrooms

-Blue Zoas

-Yellow/green rim Zoas

-Orange Zoas

-Mixed Zoa branch

-Green star polyps

-Green striped mushrooms

-Pipe organ coral

-"Dolphins blue bottlebrush acro"

-majano anenomme (still yet to become a problem)

-6x blue legged hermit crabs

-2x random snails

-4x random starfish (brittle stars I belive)

[jenlovesty]

Here are my two check in photos. I have a 2.5 gallon minibow. Currently I have pink and blue rics/ green star polyps, three different kinds of zoos.

 

I have two snails and three small blue legged hermits.

 

Photo 1:

 

Photo 2:

[BelowH2O]

Heres my entry, a little late.

 

 

 

 

 

Equipment

 

2.5 gallon AGA

Fluval 204 cannister filter

15 watt heater

Current USA 18w PC

 

Livestock

 

Variety of Mushrooms and Ricordia

Some type of leather...capnella?

Caulastrea

 

The tank was originally intended to be strictly mushrooms, but I had the leather and candy cane in there and it looked good so they stayed. The only theme my tank is really shooting for is complete aquaculture. With the exception of the red-legged hermit, the theme has been met. Everything has been aquacultered by me, and many corals in here are 2nd and 3rd generation clones.