My 46 gal. Bow is 6 months old

Dansin · #1 03/30/2007, 04:46 PM

I started this tank 6 months ago. I had been out of the hobby because i had a tank crash and didn't no why. So i started this one up to test the waters again. So far so good. I will give you my tank perameters first. Water Temp from 78.8 to 81,cal. 480,mag. 1490,alk9.6,salinity 1.25,ammonia,nitrates,nitrites not detected. I have a 75 gal. rubber maid sump and also have a 29 gal. tank running with this system. I use a ETS Protein skimmer and a cal. reactor on this system. Lighting i started with a ice cap 660 bal. and have 2-96 watt. Uri Super attinics and 2-96 watt. uri attinics. This worked well but i added a 400 watt. mh. I switch every 2 or 3 weeks from a xm 10k back to a 20 hamilton blub. It seems to work out well. Just testing to see what will happen with colors. For circulation i have 2 iwasaki md 40s. One is on a closed loop,and the other one is for reciculation. I also have a seio 1100 and a 1500 in the tank on a wave timer. I would like some feed back if possible. if anyone has any other ideas please feel free to share them. Almost all started from frags.

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If any one nos what this is?

Dansin · #2 03/30/2007, 04:49 PM

Dansin · #3 03/30/2007, 04:51 PM

Dansin · #4 03/30/2007, 04:53 PM

Thanks for looking for any comments..

Unarce · #5 03/30/2007, 05:00 PM

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Very nice tank!

My guess would be M. peltiformis

Dansin · #6 03/30/2007, 05:03 PM

Sorry these are the mose recent full tank shots taken 03-29-07

MarineGirl411 · #7 03/30/2007, 10:34 PM

How are the Anthias doing? I would like to add one to my tank. That's a Lyretail correct? I've heard they need larger tanks. My LFS suggested a Starburst Anthias if I was to get one. I'm actually looking for a Mccoskers Flasher wrasse. Nice tank. I like the Green Monti.

Brewen · #8 03/31/2007, 07:34 AM

Great looking tank cannot wait till it fills out keep us posted.

CeeGee · #9 03/31/2007, 12:14 PM

marinegirl, if you are looking for a mccoskers look no further than live aquarias divers den. they get them all the time. I got mine from them. Top notch company IME.

greenidguy · #10 03/31/2007, 02:23 PM

the tank looks great! i too have a 46g and often think that im too limited w/ what i can do w/ a smaller tank. i'd love to see pics of the plumbing to the sump and other tank. also maybe how the closed loop is setup and full tank shots.
thanks

wentreefgirl · #11 03/31/2007, 03:19 PM

Looks like my little bit of frag heaven. With a few colonys in between. Very nice.

Dansin · #12 03/31/2007, 08:24 PM

Thanks marinegirl411. The anthias are doing great i have had them for 2 and a half months. The only thing i don't like about them is they need to feed them a couple times a day. Other than that they are vary healthy. I have a auto feeder on the tank and it feeds in the morning and then i feed in the evening. I'm not sure of the name of them.

Dansin · #13 03/31/2007, 08:27 PM

Brewen thanks i can't wait until it gets to one year old to see how all the frags grow in.

Dansin · #14 03/31/2007, 08:30 PM

Greenidguy i will try to take some pictures of the sump and the other tank that is hooked in line with it sunday. I will post them later.

Dansin · #15 03/31/2007, 08:36 PM

Wentreefgirl thanks you are right about all the frags. I think at last count maybe 50 frags and about 6 or 8 colonys. It's nice to watch them grow but would love to have had more colonys i wanted to see how long it will take to grow them out. In the other tank that is hooked into the same system i have a couple of colnys and about 30 plus frags in there to. I will post pictures sunday of that tank.