The Sleeping Giant 75 gallon build

[Sleeping Giant]

Thanks

 

[Sleeping Giant]

it's always a better day w the reef ,even a bad day ,is better than a good day at work....lol ..looking great..

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[Subarody]

Love the tank! I had hoped to get a 75 gallon this time but decided on a 29 gallon for now. My previous 36G bowfront had chromis, cleaner shrimp and that urchin! Love to see those again. Watch that crab through...I had an unknown hitchhiker crab that decide a newly added foxface would make a good snack...needless to say the crab was re-homed when I could catch him. I suppose the foxface was not suitable for a 36 gallon long-term but it was a sad occasion. Different looking cram than I see in your picture though.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Released my sailfin from the tanklimate last night, saw no aggression form any of the other tank inhabitants. Looks like it loved the wide open swimming area, zooming from side to side and in/out of the rockwork. I really like how he looks in there.
Oh and added a picture of my big emerald crab, picking off debris from my zoas.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Thought I'd share a growth picture of my anemone and yellow goby
March 10- July 1
It has grown amazingly and the colour looks great, compared to when I purchased at my LFS, the goby is also doing great and doubled in size

 

[FreakPrism]

Wow really nice tank and welcome to the forum! Good inspiration for me as starting my first marine reef tank - did freshwater for many years.

By the way, what wavemaker / powerheads are you using? Are those echotechs?

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Wow really nice tank and welcome to the forum! Good inspiration for me as starting my first marine reef tank - did freshwater for many years.

By the way, what wavemaker / powerheads are you using? Are those echotechs?

Thank you so much. Glad I could be an inspiration, first time I've heard that.

I use one of each Fluval CP1, CP2, CP4 and another small superpet powerhead (basically same as a CP1) all pointed in different ways.
I find the different power from all the different powerheads, and my canister flow, combined with the low flow skimmer creatse a wonderful multi-flow in my aquarium and surface. My leather Coral and anemone flow in all types of direction, never the same thing over and over.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Some new additions:
Clove polyps (7), hammerhead (1 head), frogspawn (2 heads)

 

[fishguy242]

nice ,waitin to see them tomorrow

 

[sp1187]

good stuff

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Thanks

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Well, the sailfin tang has been out of QT for a week now, and is doing great.
The frogspawn and hammer corals are nice and plump, but the cloves didn't make it, must have looked like good food.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Well, my cloves got attacked by hermit crabs and snails running over them. So we moved them into the tanklimate to keep them alone and grow out more.
The hammerhead and frogspawn are doing great, nice and plump.
Got a bit of cyano, but will be using RX soon.
Overall, things are doing good in the 75 gallon.

 

[MightyMO]

Welcome to Reef2reef!!!

 

[Sleeping Giant]

The clove polyps are doing good in the tanklimate, going to remove them in the next 2-3 days, back into the display tank and hopefully nothing attacks them.

I have 30 lbs of new Caribsea life rock (20-base, 10-shelf) coming in today, so I'll need to plan my additional layout when it arrives.
My plan with it, is to brush off any loose debris, then dip/rinse off in RO water, then place directly into my aquarium. Only after some planning of layout.

 

[FreakPrism]

Very nice. By the way, which salt are you using and where do you buy it from? I was thinking of using Fritz but leaning to IO purple box. Thoughts?

 

[Sleeping Giant]

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Very nice. By the way, which salt are you using and where do you buy it from? I was thinking of using Fritz but leaning to IO purple box. Thoughts?

Was using io reef, but switched 2 months ago to tropic marin reef pro, it's way better IMO

 

[Sleeping Giant]

It's more money, but has lots of great benefits, cal, all, mag, trace elements.
I haven't had to dose anything yet.

 

[FreakPrism]

It's more money, but has lots of great benefits, cal, all, mag, trace elements.
I haven't had to dose anything yet.

Yeah it is expensive. However, I watched a recent video that showed it did not have any Iodine which seem to help polyps and zoas thrive. Not sure accuracy of the video or how true this is (in terms of experiment done). I think this is also done by someone in Canada.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Yeah it is expensive. However, I watched a recent video that showed it did not have any Iodine which seem to help polyps and zoas thrive. Not sure accuracy of the video or how true this is (in terms of experiment done). I think this is also done by someone in Canada.

Good video, but he is dosing, so the tests aren't as good as I would like to see.