My 75 SPS

[phisher]

I am not much of a "blogger" but I would like to try and keep some updates going for myself if no one else.

I started this adventure back in summer 2009. I was coming back from extreme reefing burn-out brought on largely by hurricane Katrina. Most of my reef tank buddies took heavy losses (as did I) and got out of the hobby. We were able to keep most of our fish alive despite almost 3 weeks without electricity. Some of our fish have been with us almost 10 years and I just did not have the heart to give them away so I maintained an over crowded 50g tank until being re-invigorated into the hobby.

The original idea for this was going to be my ultimate (yet small) sps tank with all the bells and whistles. Originally I was going to have a custom tank made but decided a standard glass 75 would fit the bill. I do not like most of the prefab stands I have seem so I planned a custom oak unit to match my existing decor. The build thread is here: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=138 so I am not going to it here. Most of my build info and equipment is there as well.

[phisher]

After many, many delays and issues real and imagined I got water in the tank in June 2010. Original aquascaping had minimal live rock. The rock was from my existing set up, thus purple and pre-cured.


As I began adding frags...I needed more places for them, so towards the end of July I added about 25lb more live rock and re-scaped.

[phisher]

September 8, 2010:

Specs:

Amm: 0
Nitrite: 0
PH: 8.1-8.3
Nitrate: Undetectable
Phosphate: Undetectable

Lighting Schedule: Act. 10:30am to 8:00pm; Daylights 11:00am to 7:30pm

Water Flow: Max Turnover 8,500gph; Average Turnover 7,000gph; Total Tank Volume Approx. 100x per hour

Media: Activated Carbon & Phosphate Remover

Current Maintenance:


I am currently doing a 5g water change every other week. I am replacing my carbon every 30 days and phosphate remover every 60 days. My fish are fed daily a mix of brine shrimp, cyclop-eeze and mysis. I do plan to administer a coral feeding regiment in the near future.

Nothing else is added to the tank.

Stocking List:

Fish:

Eible-Mimic Tang
Pair False Perc Clowns
Panther Grouper
Pajama Cardinals X 7
Harlequin Tusk Fish

Corals:

I will update this soon, I need to take some time with proper ID of some of this stuff.

Current Full Tank Shot:

[Gz28]

WOW Very nice!

[C-21 USAF]

Color looks nice, what's your lighting set-up?

[phisher]

Without pulling them out and looking I can't remember exactly. I am using Giesman (sp) bulbs...I think 2 act blue, 2 act white and 1 day light is the combo.

[sweetpea355]

how is the tusk doing with the coral and inverts?

[phisher]

how is the tusk doing with the coral and inverts?

With corals and such he's been no problem. He will eat any of my clean up crew he takes a fancy to.