Hey! Pretty cool set up. ya know, i saw a tank just like that in the back room of DPA? But it looks much nicer in your new place , full of blue water.
When does the first livestock go in?
Thanks again guys.
Paul… I can’t wait to see the color of corals once they get into this tank… 
Jon. lol… You are 
Ready?
Lights: AI pendents
Powerhead: MP40esW
Hanging Kit: Aquatic Life
Skimmer: Eshopps 150 cone skimmer
Fuge Light: Home depot shop light w/ 6500k CFL
Return Pump: Quietone 3000
Heaters: Hydor 300w glass heaters… x2
Thermometer: Coralife digital thermometer (I know… some don’t like them)
Sand: Fiji Pink 80 lbs
Rock: Mix of Jakarta, and Vanuautu.
Fuge Substrate: Fuge mud covered w/ Coarse Ca reactor media
Stock List:
Fish:
Blue Hippo from 37g
Black Mimic Tang from 10g
2 Picasso’s from 14g
Golden Midas Blenny from 30g sump
Algae Blenny
Six Line Wrasse
Inverts:
Pin cushion Urchin x 2
Fancy Yellow Brittle Star
S. gigantea Anemone
Peppermint Shrimp x6
Sand Sifting Star
Large Nasarious Snails x5 (Spelling)
Black Margarita Snails x10
Turbo Snail x2
Maxima Clam
Squamosa Clam
Durasa Clam
Crocea Clam
Algae:
Halimania (Spelling)
Corals:
GSP
Garf Bonzi
Green Milli
Blue Milli
Pink Milli
Green Script from Bill
Red Monti Cap (on overflow box)
Superman Montipora
Green Birdsnest
Pink Birdsnest
Green Pocillipora (spelling)
Green Tabling Acro
Ultra green tabling acro
Blue Bottlebrush acro
Pink tabling acro which we don’t have yet
A few staghorns which we don’t have yet
A few digitate acros which we don’t have yet
That is what has been planned so far, and we will obviously have more, but most of the stocking of this tank is coming from other tanks because we have been collecting for this tank
Ken… Soon (we will start w/ some of the hardier inverts and go from there, but we want some bioload to help seed the biological)
jared, here’s the only pic i could salvage out of 22 i took in my night mode, just to give you a small sample of how it can look. i tried all kinds of camera settings. all crap except this. and this certainly does NOT give a good indication of what it really looks like.
same under daylight
Looks like you’ll have this tank filled from other ones instantly with out too much grow out room.
Just a small bit of Halimeda in the display or using it in the fuge? I’ve had it overgrow itself in a double fist size 3-4 times in the past and melt over night. I have to start flushing it faster when it gets too big. What other macros do you plan to use?
They are all frags, and there is Plenty of space for them to grow out
That is the only macro algae that I will be using b/c it is one of my favorites, and we have a very healthy bunch of it growing. It will be in our fuge. We also have healthy mangroves that will be in the sump which is why we did the fuge mud.
Just be careful with it and make sure to keep it pruned and thinned or it may crash quickly on ya.
Corals don’t crash because they grow lol… Systems crash because they are not taken care of I have had plenty of experience with growing corals by now, and of course you have to prune them, but that is the fun part of creating a reef, making that balance of competitive growth and having all your corals succeed at the same time.
I was referring to Halimeda, the calcareous algae you didn’t know how to spell. 
He’s talking about Halymenia, the nice looking red macro Jon.
[quote=“Gordonious, post:68, topic:3480”]
I was referring to Halimeda, the calcareous algae you didn’t know how to spell. ;-)[/quote]
Did you really just poke fun at someone for spelling something wrong?? >LOCO<
;D ;D ;D
Seems like we were both confused. I thought he was talking about a very different macro.
[quote=“Cdangel0, post:70, topic:3480”]
[quote=“Gordonious, post:68, topic:3480”]
I was referring to Halimeda, the calcareous algae you didn’t know how to spell. ;-)[/quote]
Did you really just poke fun at someone for spelling something wrong?? >LOCO<
;D ;D ;D[/quote]
I’ve read plenty of Jon’s pre-coffee posts…the dictionary’s crying when he’s done lOl
[quote=“Gordonious, post:71, topic:3480”]
Seems like we were both confused. . [/quote]
Got a mouse in your pocket? >LOCO< lOl
Halimania (Spelling)
I think that’s what happens when Halle Berry goes out in public in a bikini.
I thought he said Alameda , you know, next to Oakland California on the bay?
chili cheese dog algae?!?
(sorry… only like three people will get that)
just from my past teaching english experience, i get heart attacks trying to decipher what’s sometimes typed out on these forums, not just ours, but all over the place.
Well it’s the red algae I have told most of you about in person And yes maybe even some chille cheese dog algae Steve
Anyway, things are going well and the tank seems to be cycling a tank should lol, so… I will probably add a few cheap inverts to keep the cycle going and hope that they pull through
What type of inverts? Are you going with the opposite of damsels? Being higher invertebrate life like snails that are one of the most delicate animals we keep and are reef safe and friendly if they survive?
I did post inverts in my earlier post
I didn’t do any yet today, but will probably put a few peppermints in and see how they do. I am well aware of the care level of inverts, but they are a lot less pricey than fish, and I don’t do starter fish, I only add what I am going to have in the tank
The VP really puts monetary values on the animals he keeps in his tank? Really Jared? Shrimp are probably one of the most sensitive and delicate animals you plan to put in your tank. They are likely the least likely to live through a cycling tank, but they really don’t cost that much so what ever. They’ll die you’ll buy more.