Vlamingi tangs new house

[guntercb]

Can the mods delete this post? Thanks.

 

[fishguy242]

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[jeffrey750750]

Jeffrey,

It is looking good. How are all the fish doing? I like the shark on you sump! Nice touch.

Cheers.

All my fishies are doing great except for the missing 6 line, I hope he just appears one day. I've looked at all times of day in the overflows, rocks and sump.. nothing but I did get a diamond goby to turn my sand, love those little guys

 

[jeffrey750750]

Maybe I missed it— will this be a reef tank or a FOWLR? (Either way it’s beautiful!)

It will be a reef, just going really really slow. Keeping everything stable and did i say going slow? I have my 60 cube reef so that keeps the temptation down.

 

[mattgsa]

Looking like a great build. Looking forward to seeing it coming along.

 

[Butcher333]

any updates?

 

[fishguy242]

bingo !! start that quarters jar now ,so in a few years you can buy that 500 gallon tank,they are such a cool fish ,can hand feed ,great personality..but they grow and grow ,had a pair in 240 started out little bigger than half dollar ,got lucky turned out male and female 3 years later had to rehome were 9+ inches ,but went to an 1100 gal w a friend

@jeffrey750750 hi been a while i said this^^^ i got em' back ;Woot;Woot;Wootwill be 4yrs old in may female is 8-9 male is 10-11";Happyhope all is well

 

[jeffrey750750]

@jeffrey750750 hi been a while i said this^^^ i got em' back ;Woot;Woot;Wootwill be 4yrs old in may female is 8-9 male is 10-11";Happyhope all is well

That is awsome you got it back! My vlamingi is my favorite also. Yes you can hand feed him and pet his topside. Very cool

 

[jeffrey750750]

Update on my tank, well I acquired a piscicoldae worm. Started off on my diamond goby, then to my purple tang and next to one of my gladiator clowns. I did a seven day treatment of ruby reef rally pro in the display tank. It went away for three days then came back with a vengeance. 5 times the worms just on one fish. Started dosing again, pulled one live worm out of the sand, one off the glass, one in a filter sock and caught one of the clowns and pulled one off with a napkin. After dosing another 12 days or so the are gone. I've knocked on wood a few times praying they won't come back. Since using the reef safe ruby rally pro ive lost 2 small frogspawn frags from my 60. Lost my bloodshrimp and coral banded shrimp. My gorgonia has retracted bigtime. Thank goodness I didn't have alot of corals in there.
I've done 2 10% water changes in the past couple days to try and head off this new diatom bloom. Overall at this point I'm happy the direction its going, its just a slow process

 

[fishguy242]

major bummer,glad to see you back on right track

 

[Nigel35]

Beautiful Beautiful Tank!!!!! Love the scape!

 

[X-37B]

My first tank of this size, 180 gallon dual overflow by aqueon. Sump I made out of an aqueon 55 gallon with 1/4" acrylic baffles. This project has taken me about 6 weeks to get to this point and many many trips to lowes. I hard plumbed it with 1" pipe. Made my own half canopy to cover the ugly lights and give my cats somewhere to lay. When filling with direct rodi my cats knocked out the hose overnight. Let's just say that next day was very time consuming. Here's my list of equipment I chose.
Simplicity 320dc skimmer
2 icecap 4k gyres
2 kessil apx9's
Innovative marine hydrofill ato
Skimz quietpro 6.0 1585gph return
Finnex refugium led
Coralife turbotwist 6x uv light
Tropicmarin pro reef salt
Brs 7 stage rodi with 0tds
120lbs live rock from tropicorium (local coral farm)
8 bags caribsea pink fiji sand
Brightwell No3 plate pieces
Brightwell bio plate soaked in bacter7
Added bio spura as well
Hard to tell from the pictures but there's alot of caves and plenty of room behind the rock for flow. I plan on doing another mixed reef. Thanks for looking, jeff

Nice setup!
Nice "cat" fish too, lol.

 

[jeffrey750750]

5 month update: knock on wood, all fish healthy and happy. Transfered a few corals from my other tank and doing great.

 

[JumboShrimp]

Great fish, great photos!

 

[jeffrey750750]

Great fish, great photos!

Vlamingi tang
Purple tang
Orange spot rabbit
Cardinal
3 gladiator clowns
4 green chomis
Diamond goby

 

[JimmyV]

Nice job .Looks great

 

[Socal-Reefer-60]

5 month update: knock on wood, all fish healthy and happy. Transfered a few corals from my other tank and doing great.

Rock coloration is looking great. Love the aqua scaping in the full tank shot.

 

[fishguy242]

been a while..

 

[jeffrey750750]

been a while..

Lol, he's catching up to yours

 

[jeffrey750750]

Updated pics with a few additions, torch and hammer and little baby toadstool. All parameters ok except for nitrates a little high, using brightwells bio fuel to get those down. I was kinda skimming light to not bottom out phosphates. Turned that up since my last test.