Soft Coral Dominated Tanks... Let's See 'em

reefnewbie54321 · #1 04/28/2006, 06:30 PM

In the process of putting a 120 together, I am definitly not doing an SPS Tank but I still dont know if I want to do a softie dominated tank becuase it kind of lacks color and is pretty bland.

Lets see some pics of your softie dominated tanks and change my mind!

bradleyj · #2 04/28/2006, 06:40 PM

I have tons of mushrooms and zoa's in my tank, but no leathers. I do have sps also, but I thought you might want to see the mushrooms.

reefnewbie54321 · #3 04/28/2006, 07:27 PM

Niiice tank, I was leaning towards a zoo/shroom tank aswell but I think Zoo's altough my favorite coral might not do so well in my setup and instead I want some colorful softies to take it place.

hogpark7430 · #4 04/28/2006, 07:34 PM

Wow that is fantastic gret job.

Reefer Wannabe · #5 04/28/2006, 07:35 PM

Wow...that looks great.

mfinn · #6 04/28/2006, 07:35 PM

Nice looking tank bradleyj.
My photography skills aren't very good , but here is a 6month picture of mine.
It's a 180 that's been setup for approx 7 years.

reefnewbie54321 · #7 04/28/2006, 10:40 PM

Wow great tank ... I love how it doesnt have that crowded look.

vest0830 · #8 04/28/2006, 10:47 PM

and I plan on getting a few more softies this weekend.

im becomming obscessed with lathers, zoos and shrooms.

Scuba_Dave · #9 04/28/2006, 11:11 PM

Have a heart

crrichey · #10 04/29/2006, 02:25 AM

Like clowns

vest0830 · #11 04/29/2006, 04:37 AM

im about to give 2 of them up.

Nagel · #12 04/29/2006, 05:39 AM

Here's my 300. The pic is a little big, but so is the tank

reefnewbie54321 · #13 04/29/2006, 05:52 AM

awsome tanks

slave-of-rock · #14 04/29/2006, 08:52 PM

Here is a crappy picture of my tank, mainly zoas, shrooms and an LPS or two.

Timothy01 · #15 04/29/2006, 10:38 PM

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Originally posted by reefnewbie54321
becuase it kind of lacks color and is pretty bland.

I can't believe you would think softies creat a bland coloring. look at all the colorations of zoo's and shrooms alone. not to metion leathers and trees. i used to think wow ive got 4 diffrent types of shrooms in my tank no more, then i see a ricordia i have to have boom theres another , o think now im up to like 10 diffrent colors of shrooms, no bland in this tank, no cam to take pics but softies are anything but bland and un colorful

slave-of-rock · #16 04/29/2006, 11:35 PM

So true! I have about 25-30 zoa color morphs (mostly frags as you can tell from my pic) and 10-15 different mushroom color morphs! There are hundreds of zoa color morphs, the same with mushrooms and rics. More beautiful then SPS imo, but don't let any of those guys in the SPS forum read that

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SexiShrimp · #17 04/30/2006, 12:56 PM

Hey all,
Here's my softy dominated tank.......

SS

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...hreadid=830147

reefnewbie54321 · #18 04/30/2006, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Timothy01
I can't believe you would think softies creat a bland coloring. look at all the colorations of zoo's and shrooms alone. not to metion leathers and trees. i used to think wow ive got 4 diffrent types of shrooms in my tank no more, then i see a ricordia i have to have boom theres another , o think now im up to like 10 diffrent colors of shrooms, no bland in this tank, no cam to take pics but softies are anything but bland and un colorful

I dont consider zoos or mushrooms softys, when you go to a coral website to purchase something they have a different section for rics/shrooms and zoos. At first I wanted to stock my tank with just zoo's/rics and shrooms but know I want some more stuff that is kinda "wavy" i guess so I want to add some softys that arent baige or white.

sunfishh · #19 05/01/2006, 12:10 AM

Bradleyj your tank is awesome

J4Life · #20 05/01/2006, 12:23 AM

bradleyj,

Did I read your description right? 65 gallon is your tank size? If so how do you keep all of those fish in that tank? I have 5 now in my 75 gallon and I was thinking that with a CBB and YT that was a bit much.

Nice looking tank by the way and I am not the frickin T policia!

Thanks,
Bill

Timothy01 · #21 05/01/2006, 12:28 AM

it something like 1 inch of fish for every gallon of water, throw in a sump and a fuge increase your water volume. ive seen people run water through a 50 gal rubbermaid trashcan just to add more fish

bradleyj · #22 05/01/2006, 07:21 AM

Thanks everyone for your nice comments. I do have alot of fish for a 65g. I've had all of them in my tank for over two years now and they have all tripled in size. I do weekly waterchanges and have a nice skimmer and run ozone , all which help tremendously in keeping these fish healthy. I am in the process right now of setting up my new 225 gal and my tangs and rabbitfish can't wait.