A picture and list of my Corner Tank

[TaubBaer]

Just wanted to show you my "Will-never-completed" 54g sumpless corner tank.


Hanged Odyssea 250w 15kMH 24" 380w system (With Actinic turned off)
CoralVue Ballast
Tunze 9010 Skimmer tucked in the back corner
2 Hydor Koralia 2 Powerheads
All-Glass Heater made by Hydor.
LR (#?)
LS (#?)
3 Blue-Green Chromis
2 Blueband Goby
1 Lawnmower Blenny
1 Ocellaris Clownfish
1 Desjardin's Sailfin Tang
1 Coral Beauty Angelfish

I don't remember all names, I need to make a list.

2 Zoas (2 groups: Orange trim/Brown and Olive trim/Brown)
1 RBTA
1 Clam
1 Green thing on a big rock (top of LR)
1 Rinto (spell? On the LS)
1 brown tree next to Zoas


Yes, I need more FRAGS!!!

[lanxang]

Come to the meeting and I'll hook you up with something other than brown. I believe the green thing is called green star polyp or GSP.

How do you like the Tunze skimmer? Silent?

Looks great so far.

[TaubBaer]

Originally posted by lanxang
How do you like the Tunze skimmer? Silent?

I don't know how silent it is because I'm deaf reefer. Tunze is the only one that HOB that go INSIDE the tank and small enough to stuff it in there. So far, it is working pretty good. Also, when I set up the 150g tank in a new house, I can put this tunze in the sump saving my money that way.

[lanxang]

I'm on the planning stage for my future tank. Almost bought 100g tank but decided to wait. I was looking at the above skimmer.

[TaubBaer]

Can't go back edit my first post above, so here it is...

Clam:


RBTA:


2 groups of Zoas and a type of tree:


Rito(spell?):


Green thing on a big rock:


Blueband Goby (tried to get both in a one shot, failed!)


Tunze Skimmer:

[TaubBaer]

Originally posted by lanxang
I'm on the planning stage for my future tank. Almost bought 100g tank but decided to wait. I was looking at the above skimmer.

The Tunze Skimmer 9010 is what I have which can be used as HOT or in-sump. It is capable to skimming up to 264g (1000l).

[Sandman71]

Are you planning on a softie tank or will you be adding sps?
How old is the tank?
By the way the tank looks good, keep up the good work

[mothra]

Cool tank. Your anemone looks nice. I used to have one very similar to that. Your goby looks a little skinny, maybe it's just the angle.

I have only heard good things about the 9010 skimmer. Keep in mind that the ratings downgrade depending on how your tank is stocked, their rating system is explained here: http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewIt...ct~TZ5333.html

I have one of the larger Tunze skimmers and it's rated the same way.

[TaubBaer]

Originally posted by Sandman71
Are you planning on a softie tank or will you be adding sps?
How old is the tank?
By the way the tank looks good, keep up the good work

I'm open to any softie, sps, etc.!!!!

It is 1 month since I first put in stuffs in there.

[TaubBaer]

Originally posted by mothra
Your goby looks a little skinny, maybe it's just the angle.

At the Cartier's Pet Mart, they got 10 Blueband Gody and they all look the same figures. I have 2 that have the same figure and are about 3" long.

[Auntbeez]

Hey it is looking good.
If you want some pink pulsing xeina, and some yellow star polyps...
I can bring them to the next meeting.
Both of these are beginner softies and are quite hardy.

[TaubBaer]

When's the next meeting?

[Auntbeez]

The meetings are normally the last Saturday of every other month. and are held at the Valley Brewery Family Restaurant, in Stockton.
The next one will be Feburary 23, 2008.
Here is the link to our web site. It will answer most your questions.
http://www.nvreefers.org
Hope you can make it.

[TaubBaer]

Both of Blueband Goby had been disappeared!!!

[drdoolittle]

Tank looks good.. keep it up..

Better watch out for that "green thing" Green star Polyps, they might grow out of control.

[TaubBaer]

Newest Additional last Saturday from Kalypso Aquatics....

Blastomussa merleti "Pineapple Coral" 1 1/2" tall.

[TaubBaer]

Originally posted by drdoolittle
Tank looks good.. keep it up..

Better watch out for that "green thing" Green star Polyps, they might grow out of control.

The Green Star Polyps has not been grow out of control YET.... they stay on the same rock for almost 1 year. BUT under MH, I keep my eyes peeled for its growth. Hairy Mushrooms are getting bigger. Hope it will climb onto back glass instead all over the rocks.

[TaubBaer]

I have the book called, "Aquarium Corals" by Eric H. Borneman that I purchased from Kalypso Aquatics, and I had been reading all through. I had discovered that Hairy Mushrooms MIGHT catch and eat the wiry fish! That made me wondering if it had caught both gobies? RBTA? I have no foggiest idea...

[Auntbeez]

More likely the anemone than the muchroom... but strainger things have happened.

[mothra]

Sorry to hear about your gobies. My guess is that they died of starvation. In your picture the stomach is borderline pinched, once they get that far along it's hard for them to recover (same goes for any fish). Unfortunately a lot of the sandsifting gobies are this way at the LFS because they don't have a mature sandbed to forage through. Yellow Head Sleeper gobies aka Blue Band gobies are actually one of the tougher ones to care for; if you don't have a LOT of mature sand they need to be fed a few times a day or more.

Here's a pic of a nice healthy one, bad quality picture but look at the big fat stomach.

[TaubBaer]

Now, I can see the difference! Hope that Kalypso Aquatics sell them fat and healthy! Elliot recommended this goby.