55 gallon rebuild

Reef keeper · Apr 20, 2011

Hello I have a 55 gallon mixed reef with a 20 long sump.

A few days ago the tank along with a 30 and 40 were taken down do to an problem with termites in the walls behind the tank. But the tank should b back up next weekend!
But stocking list is

Blasto's
Green plate
War favia
Some moon favia
Mushrooms
Orange ric
Xenia

Incrediblehulk shrooms
Superman rhodactis
Spiderman shroom

Zoa/paly
Campfires
Purple hooters
Fake red hornets
Something that looks like jf bloodshot paly
La lakers
Valentine day massacre palys
Eagle eyes
Sham
Wammin watermelons
Miami vice morph
Magicians
Jokers
Raptor rainbow
Rainbows
Some unknowns
Fiery phoenixes
Capt Americans
True armaggedons
Zombie eyes
Purple, blue hornet
Eye of rays
Pink arms
Radioactive dragon eyes
Nightmares
Bumble bees
Green corsets
Mean greens
Nuc greens
Purple deaths

Sps
Green cytherstia
Blue tort
Elkhorn
Pokerstar monti
Starburst monti
Garf bonsai
Rainbow monti
Sunset monti
Superman monti
Banana birdsnest
Pink birdsnest
Green birdsnest
Ornge cap
Green cap
Bretts purple rim cap
Green birdsnest
Banana birdsnest
Forest fire digi

Lps
Some acans
Darth mail chalice

Inverts
2 maxi mini nems
Harlequin shrimp
Cleaner shrimp

Specs: nova extreme 6 bulb t5 fixture with a hang on back reef octopus skimmer.

fsu1dolfan · Apr 20, 2011

Welcome to Reef2Reef. Sorry to hear about the termites. Hope you get everything back to normal soon and nice livestock list btw.

xmetalfan99 · Apr 20, 2011

Good luck with the termites hopefully they didn't do any permanent damage.

That is one long and diverse coral list for a 55. Was all that in your other tanks and you just moved everything over to the 55?

Reef keeper · Apr 20, 2011

Thanks
luckily their was a brick wall behind the termites(theirs paneling up) so the ate the paneling and the beams that held the paneling up but were working their way up to some wood support beams.

That was all in the 55 and actually theirs some more corals I missed.

fsu1dolfan · Apr 20, 2011

Reef keeper said:
Thanks
luckily their was a brick wall behind the termites(theirs paneling up) so the ate the paneling and the beams that held the paneling up but were working their way up to some wood support beams.

That was all in the 55 and actually theirs some more corals I missed.

Yikes that is scary stuff. I got a friend that is going through this too. Can't wait to see so more pics of your tanks.

Reef keeper · Apr 20, 2011

Yeah their a pain!!!!! Before i was pulling about a 100 of em a day out of the sump. I just figured they were flies or nats.

Reef keeper · Apr 20, 2011

Reef keeper · Apr 20, 2011

Some pics of when it was up and running. Don't mind the algae. It actually needed taken down because it was set up for ten years with the same sand bed so it gives the oppertunity to clean the sand bed.

fsu1dolfan · Apr 20, 2011

Reef keeper said:
Some pics of when it was up and running. Don't mind the algae. It actually needed taken down because it was set up for ten years with the same sand bed so it gives the oppertunity to clean the sand bed.

Nice pictures and corals look good!! Sometimes it's nice to take it down, clean it up, and put it back together.

Reef keeper · Apr 20, 2011

Thanks and yeah it was nice but the same rockscape for the past 4 years kinda got old.
The idea for the rebuild is 3 10inch aqua-mags, and 4 aqua mag jr's. Open sand bed which will have in the back corner maxi mini nem's, middle acans, right corner blasts and front zoas and palys on the aqua mag will be the sps and chalices.

BossToneS674 · Apr 22, 2011

sweet tank, those corals look great

xmetalfan99 · Apr 22, 2011

I ment to ask. How do you like your eshoppes frag rack? Ive found that the magnets are week on the one I tried out.

Nice photos.

Reef keeper · Apr 22, 2011

Thanks and yeah I noticed with the frag rack you can't fill the rack because it starts to lean forward. I had eggrate frag racks made with mag float magnet and glued the eggcrate down with frag glue and I never had any problem with it leaning forward unless I accidentally grab the magnet on the outside of the tank and start cleaning the glass and by the time I relies the corals r scattered all over. Lol but the only problem with eggcrate is it attracts algae!