150G Peninsula

[jefra]

Upgraded from a Mr. Aqua 22 gallon peninsula to a 150 gallon peninsula.

Equipment

Lighting: AquaticLife Hybrid fixture with ATI T5 bulbs & x2 Kessil 360WE

Pump: Sicce Synchra 9000 (1900 GPH)

Heater: x3 Cobalt Neotherm 150W

Protein Skimmer: ReefOctopus 200 INT

Wavemaker: IceCap Gyre 3K

Rock: 50 lbs established Pukani rock; 100 lbs CaribSea shelf rock

Sand: 100 lbs CaribSea Reef Grade Fiji Pink

Livestock

Fish:

• Emperor angelfish - juvenile (Pomacanthus imperator)
• Regal angelfish (Pygoplites diacanthus)
• x2 Picasso clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris)
• x7 Royal gramma (Gramma loreto)
• Yellow assessor (Assessor flavissimus)
• Yellow coris wrasse (Halichoeres chrysus)
• Diamond goby (Valenciennea puellaris)

[Planned for the future: green mandarin (Synchiropus splendidus), some wrasses and anthias - still undecided on which species.]

Invertebrates:

• x3 Rose bubble-tipped anemones (Entacmaea quadricolor)
• ~12 Rainbow ricordea (Ricordea florida)
• Shortspine urchin (Echinometra sp.)
• Pencil urchin (Eucidaris tribuloides)
• Skunk cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)
• ~150 cerith snails
• ~24 nerite snails
• ~12 nassarius snails
• ~12 trochus snails
• Various sponges

Corals (Stony):

• Acropora nasuta
• ORA Red Goni (Goniopora sp.)
• Branching frogspawn
• Starburst monti cap
• Various branching montis (Montipora digitata)

[Adding stony corals conservatively to monitor angelfish nipping]

Corals (Soft):

• Few dozen Caribbean gorgonians
• Fiji yellow toadstool
• Neon green toadstool

• Zoanthids (Utter Chaos, Fruit Loops, Orange Bam Bams, Magicians, Rainbows, Nirvanas, Scrambled Eggs, Twizzlers, Rastas, My Clementines, LA Lakers, My Chemical Romance, Midas Gold, Candy Apple Pink, Space Monsters)
• Palythoas (Beauty & Beast, Mindblowing)

22 Gallon (Pre-Upgrade)

150 Gallon

 

[dantimdad]

I love the look of the 22 gallon peninsula. The 150 is going to be even better!

 

[Ruben's Reef]

Congratulations !!!! That's a big upgrade. Following>>>

 

[jefra]

Here's some updated pics, roughly one month after the upgrade. Struggled to find decent base rock anywhere (Reefcleaners and Marco were both out of stock) so that's delayed me posting some pics. The added arches and overhangs have made the angels much less shy which is great since they're definitely my favorites.

The (semi) final aquascape, created with Marco cement. Beefed up my clean-up crew today so excuse the army of snails.

Left Side

Right Side

Currently quarantining a royal gramma harem of seven.

 

[jefra]

Replaced my bulbs today. For my own record keeping: ABS, ACT, X, X, ACT, ABS.

Haven't updated in a while so figured I'd post some new tank shots. Aquascape was changed a bit, all rock is nicely encrusted with coralline now.

 

[nemille]

It looks nice! That's a very big update upgrade from 22 to 150g! I'm impressed by the number of snails you bought too haha, 200!