Felicia's 40B Mixed-Reef Predator Tank

[FeliciaLynn]

Nice! I love, not only the coral, but the species selection is fantastic! I do have a little 20G, but am looking forward to creating my own masterpiece after my future move and your tank is a real inspiration to a newbie like myself. I mean, it's really opened my eyes to a new love for lionfish! Time to do some research

Thank you! Glad I could give you some ideas for your next build. Lionfish are amazing fish and I definitely think they're underrated, especially in reef tanks. Definitely do your research on them, and of course feel free to ask me any questions!

 

[FeliciaLynn]

For anyone who doesn't get the Marine Depot Newsletter....




Marine Depot made a featured video of my tank that was in their newsletter today! Here's the email that went out:

Link to the online version of the email.

Here's the link to my feature tank on their website with more information about the tank.


And then here's the video they put together from clips that I provided them. I think they did a great job!

 

[FeliciaLynn]

Ok, so I had a ton of photos that I took with the video clips for the Marine Depot video and a bunch of them didn't get used, so I figured its time to share some of those!

Fun angled FTS from March 12, 2016
IMG_2630 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

Left side
IMG_2335 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

Center
IMG_2343 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

Right side
IMG_2349 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr


I also took some photos of the sump and equipment. A few of these got used in the video, but I wanted to share them again since I don't photograph the sump often. Its dirty, but oh well! I wanted people to be able to see how my system is set up.

IMG_2210 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2217 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2223 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2220 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2226 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr


Ok, now for some coral shots!

Tyree neon green toadstools.
IMG_2308 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2363 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

Gorgonians
IMG_2310 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2298 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

Yellow Fiji leather
IMG_2295 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

Green nepthea
IMG_2291 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr


The giant squamosa is doing wonderfully and still growing!
IMG_2302 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2355 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr



And how about a few top down shots?

The duncan colony is getting huge!
IMG_2564 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

BTA island
IMG_2565 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

All three clams are doing great!
IMG_2567 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

 

[FeliciaLynn]

Ok, now its time for some photos of the fish!

First off, the clownfish.
IMG_2325 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2552 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2537 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

And finally a halfway decent photo of the tomini tang! She's always moving too much

IMG_2429 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

Falkor was being a ham as usual.
IMG_2359 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2477 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

Mushu was out front demanding food. He was all like, look lady, you've been near the tank for like the last hour taking photos. Get us some food, NOW!
IMG_2912 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2890 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2868 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2486 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

Of course Draco was striking a pose as always!
IMG_2387 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2497 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

The antennata even decided to come out and have her photo taken

IMG_2733 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2784 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2753 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2798 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr




Drumroll please! And for the grand finale....

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Draco and the Antennata were posing together for some awesome shots!

IMG_2677 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2688 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2844 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

IMG_2854 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

 

[FeliciaLynn]

 

[Hyabuza]

Coool

 

[revhtree]

Hey @FeliciaLynn how is the tank doing!?

 

[FeliciaLynn]

Hey @FeliciaLynn how is the tank doing!?

Hi! Its doing wonderful! Mostly running on autopilot at the moment because I've been super busy. The last couple weeks I was finishing up my dissertation and then I had family in town for my graduation. I am now officially Dr. Felicia I just finished my PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley. This week I'm still pretty busy doing some trainings on the instrument I was in charge of and organizing all my data and supplies so that I can leave my lab at the end of this week. Then I get a month vacation before I start my job

I was already planning to do a water change on the tank tonight, so I'll try to do a big photoshoot tomorrow evening and get up lots of new photos to share.

 

[revhtree]

Hi! Its doing wonderful! Mostly running on autopilot at the moment because I've been super busy. The last couple weeks I was finishing up my dissertation and then I had family in town for my graduation. I am now officially Dr. Felicia I just finished my PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley. This week I'm still pretty busy doing some trainings on the instrument I was in charge of and organizing all my data and supplies so that I can leave my lab at the end of this week. Then I get a month vacation before I start my job

I was already planning to do a water change on the tank tonight, so I'll try to do a big photoshoot tomorrow evening and get up lots of new photos to share.

WOW congrats Dr! That's amazing!

 

[FeliciaLynn]

WOW congrats Dr! That's amazing!

Thank you

 

[FeliciaLynn]

I took a bunch of photos for you all tonight, but its getting late, so I'll have to go through all of them and post them tomorrow evening. To tide you over though....


Here's a quick new FTS!

IMG_4056 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

 

[revhtree]

I took a bunch of photos for you all tonight, but its getting late, so I'll have to go through all of them and post them tomorrow evening. To tide you over though....


Here's a quick new FTS!

IMG_4056 by Felicia Svedlund, on Flickr

Gorgeous!

 

[metrokat]

Congrats on the graduation, tank is looking great Felicia.

 

[120reefkeeper]

Love it!

 

[cnseekatz]

Looks amazing!

 

[renato120]

@Gui Paim

 

[kevensquint]

Nice, what's your method to keep nutrients down while feeding predators?

 

[rarelyseriousb]

This tank has inspired me to set my tank back up.

 

[Chrisfish]

Congratulations!! I always love when you update your thread!!

 

[rayn]

Congrats on the Dr! Tank, beautiful as always!