Gooch's Tank

[gooch]

Here is my sixty five. Slow going but looks ok. Will look real nice once it is colored up.

Rockwall.

Now stocked with Tonga Branch. Just added it today so it will be awhile before she looks nice. Rock was fully cured. But no coralline at all on it. I picked these pieces out months ago.

Lighting is T-5's. Not a fan of them but didn't want to put the halides on this tank. Gonna keep it as simple as possible. Yeah.....right.

 

[aquarius77]

Its nice! What will you be stocking it with?

 

[gooch]

One or two acro's. Two montipora, maybe more. I have three symphyllia wilsoni that will go in there. About twenty different micromussa and lords. Some scolymia. An elegance or two and some zoanthids.

ANd maybe a few other things if there is room.

 

[roshi719]

What monti's are you gonna do?

 

[gooch]

It all depends on the color scheme of all the other corals I add to the tank. Orange will actually be a color I am kinda lacking so I was thinking of the setosa. I will have a lot of red and green from the Lords micro's and wiloni's and scoly's. A few purple corals. I will have plenty of blue and pink. I will have dendro's and sun polyps in the tank as well so that may fill the need for orange. The montipora will be some of the last coral I add to the tank. I will no doubt have a couple A.Solaterensis/Efflorensis as they are truly the only acro I really go gaga over.



I have to be careful about planning to many corals for this tank. I think I may have to many already and it will be a couple of years before I do an upgrade in size.

 

[paintballer768]

It all depends on the color scheme of all the other corals I add to the tank. Orange will actually be a color I am kinda lacking so I was thinking of the setosa. I will have a lot of red and green from the Lords micro's and wiloni's and scoly's. A few purple corals. I will have plenty of blue and pink. I will have dendro's and sun polyps in the tank as well so that may fill the need for orange. The montipora will be some of the last coral I add to the tank. I will no doubt have a couple A.Solaterensis/Efflorensis as they are truly the only acro I really go gaga over.



I have to be careful about planning to many corals for this tank. I think I may have to many already and it will be a couple of years before I do an upgrade in size.

Kudos on the planning going into this tank. It looks like its going to be great

 

[gooch]

Here is a pic I took yesterday. Something to look at anyhow.

 

[JuniorMC8704]

whats the wicked cool spiked thing on the front glass?

some kind of urchin?

 

[Nate82]

great looking tank can't wait too see it all grown in!

 

[shred5]

Hey Gooch!

No blacksand with metal shavings I see...

Dave

 

[fishes2889]

whats the wicked cool spiked thing on the front glass?

some kind of urchin?

"Ninja star" astrea snail..

 

[gooch]

Just an astrea snail. I got it in a package deal from the LFS.

No black sand.

 

[ahayes13]

wow, tank is looking great ! i love the rockwall...

 

[gooch]

wow, tank is looking great ! i love the rockwall...

Thanks. It was the first time I tried to make one. I didn't like how it turned out but think I can do better the next time around. Might make them for smaller tanks down the road. People have been asking.

 

[Zeppelin]

Looking good man. ;)

 

[MarvinsReef]

hey gooch... looking good man!!! it'll be a killer tank once it matures... :)

 

[gooch]

Took an updated pic tonight.

Added a few things since the last time I took a pic. Will have some more corals coming soon.

 

[gooch]

Tank is just settling in now. It is less than five months old. The coralline is starting to come in nice.

Here is a couple close ups.
I love this one.

This is my screensaver right now. Bowerbanki.

This micro just lights e up when I look at it. It is my favorite. I know there are corals with more color. I have more colorful coral in my tank. I just love this piece.

Blue waving hand anthelia and african blue cespularia(blue zenia). Sorry if I spelled it wrong. My wife almost killed me when I brought home zenia and anthelia. The frag of gsp didn't make her happy either.

 

[SaraB]

Very nice tank!

 

[mak060]

Nice rock wall gooch, really different. Is that the ceramic material you've been talking about? Works like live rock because of porosity doesn't it? Do you have an oven on site or do you pay for use?