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[EFSleeper]

Ok so I have been in the hobby for a few years now. Sharing my passion with salt and fresh water. Well I've had a 55 gallon up and running for about 6 months and kept having problems with it and the lighting. So I decided it was time to upgrade to a 75 and do a reef tank with it. So in 1 day of non stop moving I drained my 55 cleaned it out and moved my 75 freshwater to the 55. That is where the fun started. I fully cleaned the 75 back to looking like a brand new tank. Then came my live rock and sand after a good cleaning of both. Filled the tank up and put my fish in. I'm running a 6 bulb t5 fixture

80 pounds of live rock and 40-60 pounds of live sand.

Pics of before and throughout the build are posted below, also you can notice the difference in my fish behavior in the 2 tanks as they are not just hosting 1 corner of the tank

Plans to come in the future are playing a little more with the lights until I get the perfect lighting I've been dreaming of. Of course more fish and clean up crew will be coming. Right now I'm still trying to get my water right so I can start adding some corals to the tank

 

[EFSleeper]

And now to the 75

 

[ryhoward]

good luck!

 

[Trevdawg]

Looks good!
I'm am on my way... Same size tank and same light.

 

[MarvinsReef]

how's the tank doing now?

 

[EFSleeper]

Sorry for a long responce. But tank is doing great got my fish in and started with mix of corals. I finally set up a sump tank it is a eshopps 200 soimmer setup is reef octopus 110 and its beautiful if i can say so lol. Im trying to get soke good pics to post up for all of yall

 

[EFSleeper]

 

[EFSleeper]

 

[revsgirl]

Lookin good!


Tonya

 

[EFSleeper]

New bulbs came in today

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[EFSleeper]

Thanks Tonya I've began taking a lot of pride in my tanks. Even though I have been fighting a never ending battle with algae on my back glass and sides

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[revhtree]

Looking good bro!

 

[EFSleeper]

Thanks rev this is my first reef tank so its all new to me. Still learning the hard way what mixes and what dont

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[EFSleeper]

Just a quick update with some new pics of what's going on with my 75 and my other 2 tanks (1 is a 55 with a lunar wrasse only and other is a 20 Hex) Still debating on what I'm going to do with the Hex if anything more than a run off of my softies

 

[EFSleeper]

 

[EFSleeper]

So the plan for the 75 in the near future is I really want it a SPS dom tank with a couple more colony's of Acans. Now to pics of the 55 and Hex

 

[EFSleeper]

spent the whole day messing with my tank and once I started moving a couple rocks I ended up with this. I went from 40-60 pounds of rock to about 130-140 pounds if not more. I love the outcome and everything in there seemed happier as soon as I turned the lights back on. So tell me what ya'll think for my first attempt at aquascaping instead of just throwing them and stacking for places to put my corals. I also made me a frag rack to stand my smaller frags on. I'm just 1 step closer to my sps dominate tank like I want :tongue:

 

[EFSleeper]

I got me some new babies for all my tanks today. For my reef i got a beautiful blue hippo and for my fish only i got a feisty Niger trigger. So I've turned into a happy addict today



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[EFSleeper]

So just a quick update on my tank. I've been fighting a steady fight with cyano and just got it cleared up and ready to show my tank again.Got a wp40 in the battle againt is and was going to throw it in my FOWLR but fell in love with it so got it as the only powerhead/wavemaker in my tank now

 

[EFSleeper]

Yes I had to show my foxface off he is the attention getter in my tank. Also got plans to upgrade to a reef ready 125 in the near future and got everything set up for a display fuge