My first salt tank

[dwebb1031]

this is my first go at saltwater.

 

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early stages

Couple cool fish eye photos

Hans of Hans and Frans the larger of my ems

 

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One of my fav pics

 

[jason g]

Pretty cool tank and pictures. How many gallons is it?

 

[dwebb1031]

75 gal I got off Craig's list looking for a 40breeder stand. Score one me Internet 0, lol. Was gonna do fresh originally but I saved so much in with what all came with the tank it was hard to pass up salt. Especially since I've always wanted one.

 

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My wife has named all the fish after character from "Journey to the West"
Except for "Sandy Claws"

 

[Sully]

Depending on where you go with your tank, you may learn to really hate that CBS. If you start doing corals, mine would literally pull food right out of the corals mouths. Needless to say, mine was banished to a QT tank over a year ago after a few months of being a pest to everything in my tank. With a 75g though, you may not have those problems since he has more room to roam. They can be quite entertaining though.

 

[G_Sanab922]

What's your full Livestock list so far ? And what else do you plan to put? Following along, i'm also doing a 75. What else can you tell us? What lights are you running? I see a HOB overflow, correct? How big is your sump?

 

[dwebb1031]

48" finnex fuge ray marine+ led
Odyssey Ps160 hob skimmer
Eshopps pf1000 hob overflow
Custom 10 gal refuge:
I should be using a 20 but it won't fit

 

[dwebb1031]

Stock list

Inverts:
2x emerald crabs
1x Cbs
1x green bubble anemone
Basic cuc

Corals:
Softies:
3x Kenya tree
Multiple mushroom (not sure what)
1x GPS
1x young blushing finger leather
1x Devils hand leather
1x Dragons eye colony polyp
1x glove polyp
SPS:
1x Orange montipora digitata
LPS:
1x acan brain
1x folded brain

Fish:
2x black clowns
2x blue fin chromis
1x yellow tail damsel
1x smiths damsel
1x 6 line wrasse
1x spotted mandarin
1x tomini tang
1x fox face rabbit
1x flame tail blenny

 

[dwebb1031]

The only other fish I really want is a coral beauty, but I think I'm good for now in this tank. I would like to add more sps and lps, I wanna see how the ones I have now fair first. I had a sps die me when I first started adding stuff so wanna make sure I can keep these alive for now. I would love for you to post a link to your tank so I can follow along. My tank is almost 4 months how bout yours?

 

[G_Sanab922]

Nice choices. You do seem pretty filled up. Maybe a couple more fish, to push it. Coral beauty sounds good.

 

[kevantheman35]

Looks like a great start

 

[dwebb1031]

Well great news, went to my lfs to get water for a water change. Apparently some guy gave them a 12 year old torch coral to frag out. They got where around 100 frags off it so they were giving free touch drag with all salt water related purchases. Will have pics of my two as soon as they open up.

 

[dwebb1031]

well got some new photo's, moonlight shots of the aformentioned torches. they look like frogspawn to me but LFS swears they're torches. as well as my new guy CGO challange.

 

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Here a couple more I took with my phone.

 

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Well things are headed back in the right direction after ich meds killed some things and spiked my nitrates.

 

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Got some new tank in habitants.
My new rose bubble

And here a few new corals