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[Oxy]

Hi All -- Happy to be joining a local group.

 

A little background: I've been keeping FW tanks since the mid to late 80s and have been keeping marine tanks since the mid 90s. In 2008 I began a 40g marine fish and mobile invert tank that I tranfered to a 65g in Oct. 2011. The tank below is the 65g tank at ~3.5 years old. My interests lie more w/the biological and chemical aspects of the hobby and less on the technical side of things.

 

 

I may be missing some critter, but here is a general list of what is in the tank:

 

Acropora
Acropora selago
Moonbean (A. yongei)
Limelight green slimer (A. yongei)
Acropora nasuta

Montipora
ORA Greensleeves (M. digitata)
ORA German Blue Polyp (M. digitata)
ORA Orange (M. digitata)
Grape (M. capricornis)
Orangade (M. capricornis)
Purple Smoke (M. capricornis)
Shady Lady (M. capricornis)
Neon green Palawanensis (M. palawanensis)
ORA Spongodes (M. sponogodes)
Tyree Sunset
Purple Haze (M. danae)

Stylophora
ORA Green
Cotton Candy
Tyree Rainbow

Pocillopora
Valentine Damicornis (P. damicornis)

Turbinaria
Yellow Scroll (T. reniformis)

Seriatopora
Pink Lace Birds Nest (S. hystrix)

Echinophyllia
Red Firestone Chalice
Pink Mink Chalice

Gorgonian
Frilly Purple

Duncanopsammia
Giant Green Polyp Duncan (D. axifuga)

Favia

butterscotch

red

 

Briareum
Green Star Polyps (B. violacea/violaceum)

Fish
Black and white clown (pair) (Amphiprion ocellaris)
Tailspot blenny (Ecsenius stigmatura)
Coral beauty angel (Centropyge bispinosa)
Foxface (Siganus unimaculatus)
Leopard Wrasse (Macropharyngodon bipartitus)

Mobile Inverts

Coral crabs (Tetralia cymdoce and Tetralia glaberrima)

Scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
Peppermint shrimp
Hawaiian dwarf zebra hermit
Cerith snails
Nerite snails
Nassarius snails
Fighting Conch

Many hitchhikers
Chitons
Collonista snails
Brittle stars
Orange and white ball sponges, and
Red Pseudocorynactis white-tipped anemones

Edited April 10, 2015 by Oxy

[YHSublime]

Welcome!

 

That's a beautiful tank, can't believe it took you so long to find WAMAS! Lots of great information around here, and looks like you will be adding to it!

[Oxy]

Thanks. I've been a lurker from time to time.   

Happy to share my knowledge and join in discussions.

[surf&turf]

Welcome, awesome system!!

[DuffyGeos]

Welcome! Great looking tank, look forward to seeing your input.

[Happyfeet]

One of us! One of us! One of us!
Welcome!

[Reefer_Madness]

Your tanks looks like it has a very happy eco balance.

[Incredible Corals]

Tank looks perfect!

[Origami]

Thanks for joining us, Oxy. Glad to see you posting! You've got a lovely tank. I love the Arthur C. Clark quote in your signature.

[Oxy]

Thanks for the welcome!  I love photography... guess I should add that to my list under my avatar

Here are a couple of my favorite pics....

 

 

 

 

 

Quick question, I'm at a point where I'm fragging and thinning the corals to keep them on the smaller side, the idea is that the smaller the coral heads the bigger the tank looks. As opposed to having large corals which makes a tank look smaller IMHO.  So, I will be looking into trading, selling or giving them away... I'm tired of just throwing out little frags from the thinning that I've been doing.  I will follow all rules on this site, I just need to look into them more.

[YHSublime]

Great shots!

 

There is the buy/sell/free forum for members, as well as a swap program (share the wealth and propagate.) there is also a trading area. A quick breakdown of each, buy/sell/free must have a price if your listing a sale. Trading must be for reef related items only (we stretch here and allow camera equipment or scuba gear, though it doesn't often happen. SWAP must document the original coral, who it goes to, and then who it spreads to again, so on, so forth.

 

 

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[monkiboy]

Thanks for posting up and welcome aboard!