CrazyLionFish's 3 tanks - lots of pics

[CrazyLionfish]

I decided to make a thread including all the information about my tanks. I'll start out with my 75 gallon. I know the fish in their will outgrow it soon adn the lionfish almost has, im considering my options of getting a larger tank or giving the lionfish to a nearby larger tank. Anyways..

75 Gallon Glass Tank - Been up and running for almost 3 years - got christmas eve of 2002

Had a bad ich problem to begin with but was solved with a UV steralizer

Equipment

• A wet/dry sump with bioballs, white sponge like material, built in protein skimmer.
• 80 lbs of sand
• 90 lbs of LR
• Coralife UV Steralizer (only use when needed, which is very rare)
• Regular Fluorescent Light

Fish

• Queen Angelfish (had for almost 2 years)
• Volitan Lionfish (Had for almost 2 years)
• Maroon Clown (Had for 3 years)
• Yellow Tang (had for 3 years)
• Picasso Trigger (2 yrs)
• Undulated Trigger (2 yrs)

Inverts

• Condilactus Anemone (they last about 6 months under my bad lighting in that tank, and im surprised the triggers don't bother it)
• One hermit crab and about 60 hermit crab and snail shells. Obviously I was very stupid putting lots of hermit crabs and snails in there, but I was still a "newb" back then. However, one large hermit crab has survived and has been in there for over 2 years. Now that is survival of the fittest.
• Chocolate Starfish (also surprised they don't pick on him)

Routine

• Clean out sponge filter in the overflow (every few days)
• Change white filter pad thing (about once a week)
• Waterchanges (once a month, take out 15 gallons and replace with r/o saltwater - never had nitrates above 5)
• I feed them a variety of frozen mysis, frozen krill, frozen shrimp, freeze dried krill, spectrum pellets, algae sheets, and sometimes flake.

[CrazyLionfish]

Some pictures: (the glass has algae on it (cleaning soon lol) and I used flash so the colors aren't "true")

[CrazyLionfish]

Nanocube 12 gallons. You can see the picture above. I'll import some others later. Regular not deluxe. Has bioballs, carbon bag, sponge filter, and carbon rings in the back. Has light it came with. Tank has been up for about a year and a half

Fish

• False Percula Clown (1.5 years)
• 2 Green Chromises (6 months)
• Yellow Watchman Goby (1.25 years)

Invertebraes/Coral

• Leather Coral - has grown immensly probably fragging soon
• Mushrooms - started out as 3, now have 12 (1 year)
• 4 astrea snails

Routine

• Clean Glass (every 2 days)
• Water Changes (small ones every two weeks)
• Feed them a variety of mysis shrimp, spirulina flakes, and spectrum pellets once daily

[CrazyLionfish]

My new pride and joy lol is my 40 gallon reef tank. Although it is not a reef yet, it is the tank I am most involved with and I paid for it all myself (im 16 by the way) The most research also went into this tank. I'm fighting a large algae problem at the moment, but I am slowly winning. Anyways heres the info, its been up for 4 months and I'm taking it slowly.

Equipment

• AquaC Remora protein skimmer
• 3 Maxijet 900s
• 40 lbs LS
• 48 lbs LR
• Coralife Aqualight HQI Metal Halide/Power Compact/Lunar Light combo - 280 watts total
• Powerheads are hooked up to wavemaker

Fish

• Solar Wrasse (aka Red Solon Fairy Wrasse - had for a month or two)
• False Percula Clown (he had a female mate, but she ended up dying of an internal parasite , him and the solar wrasse swim by each other all the time now)
• Lawnmower Blenny (GREAT personality - had for a few weeks)

Invertebraes

• 20 Nass Snails
• 10 Astrea Snails
• 3 Emerald Crabs
• 15 blue legged hermits
• 2 Peppermint Shrimp (that have built a sweet underground little cave)

Routine

• Stare At Tank (daily haha)
• Ripping out some algae by hand for now every few days
• Clean Glass (daily)
• Water changes (small ones weekly)
• Feed hikari mysis shrimp once or twice a day
• Top off (forgot to add this for all my tanks)

[CrazyLionfish]

Pictures of 40 gallon


Female and male clownfish after introduction (RIP female)

LMB you can kind of see him

[emperior911]

wow, i'm suprised your able to keep a lion with a picasso trigger, Undulated Trigger and queen angel... i would upgrade asap, thats alot of big fish in a 75 gallon.

I have
210
Queen Angel
Emperor Angel
Purple tang
Male blonde naso tang
Male crosshatch trigger
Golden puffer

i really feel i need to upgrade just for the queen angel because of how active and big she is already.

[Jeremy Blaze]

I am amazed that lion has not eaten the clown!

[Fishfirst]

I'm amazed the sheer bioload hasn't wiped out the 75 gallon.

[10" Red Devil]

Originally posted by Fishfirst
I'm amazed the sheer bioload hasn't wiped out the 75 gallon.

Im amazed that someone that works at petsmart cares!?!

[rockindacheeks]

Originally posted by 10" Red Devil
Im amazed that someone that works at petsmart cares!?!

AWESOME!!!!

[juice me man]

very nice tank. how is the undulate trigger. im suprised it hasent sanpped yet. is it quite calm and lard back?

[CrazyLionfish]

I am also surpirsed that the lion hasn't eaten the clown, there is plans for him to move out. Fishfirst, thanks for your comment... petsmart employye.. lol I like your replies red devil and rockindacheeks. The ammonia has never been above 0 and the nitrate never above 5. I know that undulate triggers will "outrgrow any tank in aggresiveness" but so far mine is quite calm and laid back. It sneaks out when theres food, grabs a huge piece before the lion gets it, and rushes it back to his cave. The only time he really gets mad is if the yellow tang comes into his cave area, then he getting a little nippy.

[ShellBell]

Crazylionfish - what do you feed your lionfish? I have a dwarf and I have been trying to mix up his diet but he seems to only like silversides and krill, which I have heard are not very nutritious. By the way, that lionfish is AWESOME!!!!!!!

[CrazyLionfish]

Mine only eats the pink Tetra freeze dried krill, but he'll eat most other frozen foods, but prefers the krill.

[yoboyjdizz]

man i been waiting for that petsmart comment to come for a long time fishfirst always willing to critize people first before trying to help them out espically on tangs...anyway your fish in your tank are awesome but i would try to find the lion queen and undulated trigger a new home now or upgrade now i had a queen in my 72 for two months but had to take him back ...i couldnt see them in anything less then 240 gallons... x-mas is coming up im sure you could ask your folks for a brand new 300 gallon tank haha good luck ...

[LTJGAlex]

I really don't think his bioload is bad, and certainly not in danger of wiping anything out. This is a hobby, not the ocean. Money and space are finite. Crazy, I love your tanks. You're right about that lion though, it's freakin' gargantuan.

And you're 16????? You come across as someone quite experienced and knowledgeable in the hobby.

I can't believe so many people dump thousands into huge tanks and are then satisfied to have 3 little fish in them. I don't know. But hey, my POV got me ostracized from the nano and NTTH forums already. All I know is, last time I checked my house wasn't the Northern Florida Aquarium.

"Sir, would ya mind steppin' outa the car? Did you just turn outa that parking lot with a yellow tang in your bag?"

"Yes, officer."

"Aha, I see. You plannin' on puttin' that in anything smaller than a 500g?"

"Yes sir, I have a nice 80g."

"Sir, I'm gonna need ya to place your hands on the car and hand over the tang."

This isn't directed at anyone specifically of course.

[CrazyLionfish]

Thank you for the compliments and suggestions!

[CrazyLionfish]

This is probably the one topic I've researched the most out of everything - marine aquariums. Anyways, heres some more pictures.

Nanocube and huge leather that has grown so much from when I bought it

solarwrasse and some of that weird cup algae

[CrazyLionfish]

Those white spots on the leather have been there since i bought it (about a year ago)

[LukFox]

Looks great. That lion is amazing! I'd love to see one that big in person. I hope you're able to get a bigger tank rather than finding a new home for them. The fish look great.

[CeeGee]

your solar wrasse is awesome!

[CrazyLionfish]

Thank you!

[thornbury]

Can we see more pics of the lionfish CrazyLion? :P

[CrazyLionfish]

lol yes yes yes hold your horses haha

[CrazyLionfish]