Roni's 180 reef

[roni]

Figured I'd start a thread...hopefully it will force me to keep up with pics.

 

First some details

 

180 gallon Oceanic standard RR tank

6 x 80 W Sunpower ATI fixture

Euroreef 12-1 skimmer (gate valve mod)

Aquatronica base unit

4 Tunze 6100s + 1 Tunze Wavebox

Mag 9 return

 

Dosing: tropic marin bio calcium/iodine

 

Fish:

 

Yellow tang

Blue (Hepatus) tang

Purple tang

Red Sea Desjardini sailfin

2 true perculas (pair that splits time between 2 rbtas and a adjacent frogspawn)

banded pipefish

Mandarin

flame hawk

unidentified fairy wrasse.

 

Will hopefully get some pics up soon.

[Jon Lazar]

Well, it's a start.

[GaryL]

uh...where are the pics sir

Edited November 23, 2010 by GaryL

[roni]

uh...where are the pics sir

 

i'm lazy...and the fam is in town for a week...probably should have waited until after i took some pics, huh

 

will pull out the camera next week and get shooting.

[GaryL]

nah we like the suspense...lol

 

seeing it in person make me want a larger tank!

[roni]

Original Tank Setup

 

PICS TO FOLLOW

[roni]

11/20/2010

 

I apologize for the quality of the pics. really just point and shoot at this point without messing with any settings (or even cleaning glass well in retrospect

 

 

 

 

Acan Lord

 

Acan Lord

 

Acan Bowerbanki

 

Acan Bowerbanki

 

Tyree LE Chalice (can't remember name...golden eye)

 

Lemonade Chalice

 

Bubblegum Chalice

 

Hollywood Stunner Chalice

 

Unknown Chalice

 

Tubb's Blues

 

Unknown purple zoos

 

Tubastrea

 

Duncan

 

Meteor Shower

 

Encrusting Rainbow Monti from FNF

 

Sunset Monti

 

Montipora Setosa

 

Yellow Leather and Nuclear Purple Palys

 

Prism Favia

 

War Coral

 

Birdsnest

 

Mandarin

 

Edited November 25, 2010 by roni

[Chad]

Looks nice! Good Job!

[GaryL]

i love the aquascaping and how all your fish congregate on the left side all together...at least till i fed them lol

[roni]

@ gary yeah, i think they don't really like swimming into the wavebox. the only fish that are ever consistently on the right side of the tank are the pipefish, the fridmani, and the mandarin.

 

@ chad thanks!

[roni]

i think the tyree chalice is a golden galaxy and the unknown is a vivid watermelon, though not sure. anyone know? also, anyone know how to edit previous posts?

[epleeds]

where is the picture of the full tank shot and the lights...need a pic of the lights..

[mogurnda]

Very nice. Looks like it will grow in beautifully.

[roni]

@eric...will do. the fixture is awesome. i think i'll probably go with 2 for the upgrade.

 

@dave thanks...i'm looking forward to it getting the grown in look that many other people's tanks have. only time and calcium!

[ErikS]

Look good - I do have one tip................get that green stuff the heck away from the stunner chalice Heck I'd rip it out now while you stand a chance.

 

They call it green highlighter.............I have a few names for it, none of which I can say on a family forum.

 

I say we should call it "green calcium reactor media" as that's where most of it end up.

Edited December 16, 2010 by ErikS

[roni]

@eriks lol. it's actually on a separate rock, bounded by a large hammer on one side and pulsing xenia on the other. gotta get in and take some more pics when wife and baby allow.

[ErikS]

@eriks lol. it's actually on a separate rock, bounded by a large hammer on one side and pulsing xenia on the other. gotta get in and take some more pics when wife and baby allow.

Yeah, yeah, yeah........it's jut lulling you to sleep - ALL the pieces I have are now at least double what they were........some are fully 8 - 10" across.

 

Definitely need some full tanks shots.

Edited December 20, 2010 by ErikS