Coral Keepers 180 gallon reef diary.

[ahayes13]

nice additions.....

 

[Coral Keeper]

nice additions.....

Thanks!

 

[ReeferRob]

Cool tank! Whats the fish list up to now?

 

[Coral Keeper]

Cool tank! Whats the fish list up to now?

Thanks! LOL
Here is my fish list.

Already have:
Semi-aggressive 1 Yellow Tang
Semi-aggressive 1 Maroon clownfish
Semi-aggressive 1 Fridmani Pseudochromis
Semi-aggressive 1 Forktail Blenny
Semi-aggressive 1 Male Square Anthias
Aggressive 1 Tang (Ctenochaetus striatus)
Aggressive 1 Brown-Eared Surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm) or (Acanthurus nigricauda)
Aggressive 1 Niger Trigger
Aggressive 1 Flame Cardinal
Peaceful 1 Yellow Coris Wrasse
Peaceful 1 Blue Fairy Wrasse(Cirrhilabrus Cyanopleura)
Peaceful 1 Neon Goby (Gobiosoma oceanops)
Peaceful 1 Yellow Watchman Goby
Peaceful 1 Diamond Goby
Peaceful 1 Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura Wrasse
Peaceful 1 PJ Cardinal
Peaceful 1 Yellow Candy Hogfish
Peaceful 1 Spotted Mandarin fish
Peaceful 1 Purple Queen Anthia
Peaceful 2 Fire Fish (pair)
Peaceful 3 Yellow Clown Gobies
Peaceful 4 Zebra Gobies [2 pairs (2 males and 2 females)]
Peaceful 5 Blue-Green Chromis

Total amount of fish: 33

 

[Coral Keeper]

Here are a few pictures. Its almost impossible to take pictures during the day because the glass is reflecting everything. Pictures were taken under Actinic lighting.

Male Purple Queen Anthia

Blue Crocea Clam.

 

[Coral Keeper]

Here are a few pictures I took today.

Yellow Clown Goby chillen in the Kenya Tree.

Male Purple Queen Anthia

 

[oceanparadise1]

Any FTS?

 

[Coral Keeper]

Any FTS?

I'll try to take a few tomorrow.

 

[oceanparadise1]

Cool, my only suggestion would be slow down on adding fish, thats a HUGE bio load, even with a big tank. How large is your sump?

 

[Coral Keeper]

Cool, my only suggestion would be slow down on adding fish, thats a HUGE bio load, even with a big tank. How large is your sump?

Yeah. I have 2 tanks hooked up to the 180. The 55 gallon sump/fuge and a 65 gallon Macro display tank. I have about 400 lb of live rock total in the system and about 550 lb of sand in the system plus the 55 gallon and the 65 gallon are filled with macro plants

 

[oceanparadise1]

Nice, i also have a 180, i have a 65 gallon sump and 100 gallon fuge.

 

[Coral Keeper]

Nice, i also have a 180, i have a 65 gallon sump and 100 gallon fuge.

Nice!! Hooking up several systems into one is awesome isn't it?

 

[Coral Keeper]

Here is a picture of the Sea Hare and the Sea Lettuce Nudibranch. The Sea hare tripled its size since I got it!! I got it 39 days ago and counting.

 

[Coral Keeper]

Here are a few FTS's that I took 1 hour ago. Yes, I know there's a lot of hair algae, but in the beginning ALL the rocks was covered in 4 inches of hair algae, as you can see, its going away.

(Sorry for the crappy quality, it was the best I could do in the middle of the day, its impossible to take a good FTS in the middle of the day when the Metal Halides are on.)


Front.

Back.

Side.

 

[mgdmirage]

Cool tank! Looks nice.

 

[Coral Keeper]

Cool tank! Looks nice.

Thanks!!

 

[Coral Keeper]

I got an update! I ordered some coral frags!

I ordered: 1 frag of Elkhorn (Montipora hirsuta), 1 frag of Matchstick Anacropora puertogalerae, 1 frag of Patriot Acropora, 1 frag of Blue Ridge, and 1 frag of Spaghetti Leather making it 5 frags total.

They will be at my house on September 15th.

 

[Coral Keeper]

Here are a few pictures that I took today!

Blue-Green Chromis

Brown-Eared Surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm or Acanthurus nigricauda) flashing away. She looks AMAZING when she flashes! Pictures don't do her any justice(sp?)!

And my favorite picture!!

 

[Coral Keeper]

Here are a few more pictures that I took today.

Leather coral

Red Monti Cap

Niger Trigger

Fridmani Pseudochromis and Flame Cardinal

Brown-Eared Surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm or Acanthurus nigricauda)

 

[ahayes13]

very nice. i love the trigger... so cute