txaggies07 September 24, 2008 September 24, 2008 (edited) EDITED TO INCLUDE PICTURES AS OF 10/20/2008 I moved to Texas at the beginning of August. When I did, I sold off most of my fish and equipment. I had a 120g running in Texas at my fiancee's place. I have finally moved the tank to my new house and hooked up all of my other equipment. I added my rock and got my fish in there and doing well. My current fish stocking is as follows: 1 x Porcupine Puffer 1 x Picasso Trigger 1 x Yellow Tang 1 x Vlamingi Tang 1 x Brown Bird Wrasse 1 x Yellow-Tailed Blue Damsel I won't be keeping much of a reef with this tank. I will try some simple corals and see if the fish bother them much. I have some GSP that has started opening up after being shipped dry on a rock from VA to Texas. It is bleached, but slowly getting color. I will try others when the tank has established itself. My equipment is as follows: ASM G1-X skimmer 40W Gamma UV 6x54W Nova Extreme Pro Carbon bomb (1L of carbon) 40g Sump Pictures: Edited May 13, 2009 by dbartco
jamesbuf September 24, 2008 September 24, 2008 Tagging along..... How are the LFS in your area? Just curious.
txaggies07 September 24, 2008 Author September 24, 2008 Tagging along..... How are the LFS in your area? Just curious. The LFS are pretty good. Things are generally cheaper here and there a lot more good LFS here. In VA I mainly had to go to BRK if I didn't want to drive forever (even BRK was 30 minutes). Here, there are several good ones within 15 miles or so.
jamesbuf October 20, 2008 October 20, 2008 Looking good man. Get some shrooms and other easy to care for softies in there. I've got all kinds of softies in my Mom's original FOWLR tank. GSP is growing like crazy, and zenia has exploded.
txaggies07 October 21, 2008 Author October 21, 2008 (edited) I added 2 maroon clowns and the anemone shown in the pictures. I also have added a Longnose Hawkfish and a Copperband Butterfly. Edited October 21, 2008 by txaggies07
MisterTang October 21, 2008 October 21, 2008 Two overflows! That's the only thing my (your old) 75 is missing!
txaggies07 October 22, 2008 Author October 22, 2008 Thanks for the comments. I have been pretty busy moving into my new house and trying to get everything in my life to settle down. I now have a wedding to plan. I am planning to add some corals in the coming months. The GSP you see on the rock (to the left of the anemone) has just started coming back in the past weeks. It is crazy. I didn't expect it to make it. That piece of rock was out of water for near a month. I am going to stick to easy corals and maybe try some different things here and there to see what gets nipped at. My tank is technically a FOWLR, but I am going to try to make it a reef very slowly.
Smoothtriqueter October 22, 2008 October 22, 2008 Very nice. I like the aquascaping, especially the right side.
txaggies07 October 23, 2008 Author October 23, 2008 Very nice. I like the aquascaping, especially the right side. Thanks. I need one more good rock to fill in that left side to match the right.
txaggies07 October 28, 2008 Author October 28, 2008 I had a bad week for fish. In my 120g, I lost my Copperband Butterfly very unexpectedly. In my 24g, I lost my large tomato clown, clown goby, and a damsel. I think in that tank one fish died which caused an ammonia spike which killed the next which caused a worse spike which killed my tomato. I did a water change and I will do another one in a day or two. Hopefully next week is better.
txaggies07 October 30, 2008 Author October 30, 2008 It appears that the 3 remaining fish in my 24g are doing much better. Hopefully everything begins to balance out now. My 120g is doing very well again (minus my copperband :( )
blaze98 October 30, 2008 October 30, 2008 (edited) I see you got your maroon back, hope this one doesn't change colors on you...lol. Edited October 30, 2008 by blaze98
txaggies07 November 1, 2008 Author November 1, 2008 I got them from BZA specifically as white stripes. I hope they were labeled right.
fishcam January 29, 2009 January 29, 2009 I got them from BZA specifically as white stripes. I hope they were labeled right. Updates man! How am I supposed to properly do an America Szied 120rr without a Texan 120 for inspiration!
txaggies07 May 13, 2009 Author May 13, 2009 (edited) I finally took another picture of the tank. I got married in March, so I had to take a break from my fish tanks in order to mess with that. Anyways, things are settling down and my budget has opened up a little bit more for aquarium money. I haven't added any corals on this tank. I added some to my 65g though. In this tank I now have the following stocking: Maroon Clown Yellow Tang Vlamingi Tang Picasso Trigger Porcupine Puffer Green Bird Wrasse Brown Bird Wrasse Scribbled Rabbitfish The tank has been stable for a while now, with few changes. Edited May 13, 2009 by txaggies07
fishcam May 13, 2009 May 13, 2009 I finally took another picture of the tank. I got married in March, so I had to take a break from my fish tanks in order to mess with that. Anyways, things are settling down and my budget has opened up a little bit more for aquarium money. haha in-wall in-wall ... Did I tell you my CPP died too? He got stuck between my now awesome sized acro's, and i think exhausted himself trying to get out. I pulled him out and he died shortly thereafter. He'll be missed, but at least now, I can auto feed. I think I've learned a valuable lesson with picky fish: not for me! Those corner overflows... is that an oceanic tank?!
txaggies07 May 13, 2009 Author May 13, 2009 haha in-wall in-wall ... Did I tell you my CPP died too? He got stuck between my now awesome sized acro's, and i think exhausted himself trying to get out. I pulled him out and he died shortly thereafter. He'll be missed, but at least now, I can auto feed. I think I've learned a valuable lesson with picky fish: not for me! Those corner overflows... is that an oceanic tank?! Yes....it is an oceanic. As for the CPP, I am pretty sure he just died one day...and then the fish cleaned him up quick. All I found were a few of his bones. I also lost one of my maroon clowns months ago. I was pretty sad about that.
txaggies07 May 13, 2009 Author May 13, 2009 Good to hear from you again Aaron! Vlamingi is getting big Good to be back. I keep in touch with Fishcam and I have been telling him for some time I need to take a new picture of my tank to put on WAMAS. Maybe once the lights come on for the 65g I will get some pictures of that.
onux20 May 13, 2009 May 13, 2009 I finally took another picture of the tank. I got married in March, so I had to take a break from my fish tanks in order to mess with that. Anyways, things are settling down and my budget has opened up a little bit more for aquarium money. I haven't added any corals on this tank. I added some to my 65g though. In this tank I now have the following stocking: Maroon Clown Yellow Tang Vlamingi Tang Picasso Trigger Porcupine Puffer Green Bird Wrasse Brown Bird Wrasse Scribbled Rabbitfish The tank has been stable for a while now, with few changes. Tank looks great. keep the pics coming. And congrats on the marriage! Ron
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