ct_vol's 56g tank

ct_vol · May 26, 2007

This is going to be my pathetic attempt at keeping a log for this tank...

Well, I just threw this together yesterday... Made my wife happy to have some of the stuff laying around put to use...

Broke down my 29g "FOWLR" tank and set this guy up... Its a Perfecto 56g Column... 30"x18"x24" I used the old substrate from the 29 and added a few lbs of new crushed coral... Threw some LR in there that had xenia growing on it from some of my other tanks... Ashley likes the xenia, but I don't want it spreading ... I'm sure you guys feel my pain...

I have a canister filter and a power filter on it for the time being... These were both on my 29, so should help with cycling the tank... Also have a 30" CL PC light fixture... I know PC's aren't strong enough for a 24" deep tank, but its what I have for now... lol Threw in a couple of Nanostream 6025's for current...

The only livestock I have in there is a 2" sebae clown and a Four Line Wrasse...

Corals thus far are Red Pulsing Xenia (sebae hosts), Pom Pom xenia, some random mushrooms I found floating around, a few brown protopalys I didn't want spreading, and some blasto merlettis...

ct_vol · May 26, 2007

My four line Lau Lau... And his buddy...

anomie · May 26, 2007

Looks like you are off to a great start! What are you plans for the tank in the future?

dc_909 · May 26, 2007

I like that 4-line wrasse

ct_vol · May 26, 2007

anomie~ Plans are really up in the air right now... Ashley keeps yelling at me to get my frags off the sand beds of my other tanks, so I figure I'll be moving stuff from the other tanks into here... I'll be adding equipment as funds allow, but it will be a high end tank in short order...

dc_909~ Thanks!!! They're one of my fave fish... Not quite as bright as the cousin six liners, but they're sure as heck a lot less aggressive... That is, unless you're a pod...

KafudaFish · May 28, 2007

Mantis. But that goes against the high end tank idea.

anomie · May 28, 2007

Awww, come on and use your CC like the rest of us.

ecotoxlady · May 28, 2007

Really nice looking tank! I will be following it's progress

ct_vol · May 29, 2007

KafudaFish said:
Mantis. But that goes against the high end tank idea.

Mike~ You and your dang mantis tank!!! What I might do is take my clowns and yasha out of my 15g BioCube and turn that into a mantis tank... Glad you actually mentioned it...

anomie said:
Awww, come on and use your CC like the rest of us.

I would, but I have 4 other tank systems going and my wife would kill me!!!!!!!!!

ecotoxlady said:
Really nice looking tank! I will be following it's progress

Thanks, hopefully it'll turn into something nice sooner rather than later...

revhtree · May 29, 2007

Hey we need a shot of your zoa dominated tank man!

KafudaFish · May 30, 2007

You wrote "wife"!

Yeah put the mantis in the 15. The height of this tank would be wasted. So what are you going to do bub?

ct_vol · May 30, 2007

revhtree said:
Hey we need a shot of your zoa dominated tank man!

Yeah yeah fine... Oh, but which one???

And who says this one won't be zoa dominated in the short future...

KafudaFish said:
So what are you going to do bub?

Its a secret...

You'll have to wait and see like the rest of them...

JGoslee · May 30, 2007

Great start. I like that wrasse.

ct_vol · Jun 1, 2007

Whoo hoo!!!!! UPS just came about an hour ago... Been lots of fun since...

ct_vol · Jun 1, 2007

There are a few microbubbles... I've read this is normal for the first couple of weeks... But really, I thought it would be worse... I wouldn't want to be a newbie setting up this skimmer, but for someone who knows how one works, it was fairly simple...

Only took a couple of minutes to get it "dialed in"...