cleaned up my tank today = pics

[Sloth]

but first - a little bit of tank progression

here it is after tossing out most of my SPS and rearraging everything. This was in July 2004
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/34493close.jpg

and here it is today, March 2005
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/34493fulltankMarch192005.jpg

top-down of zoobily zoos and rics
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/34493zoosnstuff_small.JPG

My unhappy fish.
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/34493bastage.JPG

[clown fanatic]

wow that looks REALLY nice. i love the rics

[skipm]

Looks nice, I especially liked the top down pic. Is that a 15H tank? What are some of the tank specs? Skip

[Sloth]

Thanks,
Its a 15 tall. It's about 2 years old I think.

Equipment:
150 watt MH DE, 20K BLV bulb
15 gallon sump/fuge
ehiem 315 gph return pump
AquaC Remora skimmer
2x maxijet powerheads
auto water topoff

Livestock:

Corals:
Branching frogspawn
branching hammer
pink birdsnest
turbinaria reniformis (yellow scroll coral)
eagle-eye zoanthids
green/green zoanthids
green/peach zoanthids
pink zoanthids
orange/orange zoanthids
orange/grey zoanthids
pink palythoa
sky blue zoos
blue ricordea florida
orange ric florida
orange yuma
pink ric florida
1 brown acropora that won't die

Fish:
yellow neon goby
black & white misbarred ocellaris clown

Inverts:
2x scarlet hermit crabs
1 blueleg hermit
2x redleg hermits
tuxedo urchin
harlequin serpent star
stomatella snails
mini turbo snails
red flatworms :mad2:

what I've killed:
1 blue neon goby
every snail I've ever bought
3 emerald crabs
at least 3 hermits
a couple of acros
some anthelia

The metal halide stays on 9 hours a day, and the refugium is on a reverse cycle to even out the pH between day and night. I do a 10% waterchange almost every week. Run carbon every once in awhile. I dose baking soda and calcium chloride in large amounts. I feed flakes, pellets, frozen food, fresh shrimp, mysis, cyclopeze, and DT's once in awhile.

That's about it.

[Sloth]

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/34493bluies.JPG
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/34493greenies.JPG
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/34493green_peach.JPG
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/34493green_peach_actinic.JPG
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/34493orangies.JPG

[Sugar Magnolia]

Nice looking tank! Why'd you "toss" your SPS?

[mightymouse]

thats what i was getting ready to ask why did the sps get tossed?

[TigerWoods]

Tank looks great! I like that clown. Are you still using the 20K bulb? The lighting looks different from the July/March pictures.

[Sloth]

I tossed the SPS because I couldn't keep up with the calcium uptake. I could either buy a reactor or get rid of the SPS and I couldn't afford a reactor.

The bulb in the first pic is an iwasaki, 50K I think. And the second is a 20K BLV.

[Cowman345]

NICE ZOOS! I wish I could find some nice colors like those!

great tank... looks very healthy... what is your substrate?

-dave-

[thebrian]

Nice zoas. PM for the address to send frags to :)

[Sloth]

Thanks for the comments

The substrate is sugar-sized aragonite. With some crushed coral live sand mixed in a long time ago.

thebrian - I think I've got a frag of some orange skirt ones if you're interested

[thebrian]

PM Sent.