evolved's Wrasse & Reef Tank (Old)

Superb. Everything looks great and thriving. Can't wait to get my Wrasse Tank started.

 

Great looking tank!

 

tank looks great

 

Wow, that tank has a great wrasse! Lol!

 

Just one?!

 

Looks fantastic!

 

Thank you sir. I'd never have a reef tank without them.

Thanks all.

Thanks, but yes; there's not 1, but 6.

 

Alright, massive update as requested. Some photos aren't the greatest, but I spent a couple hours yesterday trying to get a good picture of everything.

First, some full/half tank & sump pics, then fish, then corals:

My tank is set in the corner of my living room, at a slight angle. It's shoe-horned in between the TV and a window. It's as big as I could possibly fit in the space.


FTS:


Left Side:


Right Side:


Somebody once asked about my sump, and I've never shown a picture of the [STRIKE]mess[/STRIKE] workings down there. The 2 lines in the center are coming off the CPR overflow. My return pump is in the back left corner (Mag12, ie - large heater). There's a phosban reactor hung on the left, driven by a rio400. The line from the return pump has a T that takes a portion through a 15W UV (which I can dial with a ball valve), then has another T with takes the majority of the return to the back left/right sides of the tank. The UV dumps into the center of the tank, in a locline split on the surface. The right side of the sump contains my chaeto. There is sufficient circulation through this side. The eggcrate is only there to retain the chaeto. You will also spy a media bag here with a little ROX carbon in it. I only run carbon like this for 3-4 days/month. The single heater is plugged in, but rarely comes on. I maintain a pretty constant 80F. The bulb on the sump is on 24/7.:


Looking to the left. You can spy my UPS (only the 4 powerheads are plugged in here) and my LED driver array. Also my LED dimmer box and a couple light timers.:


Looking to the right, not too interesting:


Top down into the sump:


Aerial chaeto view:



Onwards to fish

My prize fish, Lineatus Wrasse:


The flames. The male:


The two together (mediocre picture), female is above:


My most difficult guy to get a good picture of, the Scott's (center, more other guests in the photo ):




You could spy the Melanurus a couple pics ago, but here's a slightly better one:


The Canary:




Tomini tang, he stays on top of any algae caused by my feeding demands for the wrasses/anthias (2-4 times/day, but each feeding is done in small amounts):


Barrlett's Anthias. There's 3 of these guys in there, all turned male. The scuffle a little, but nothing serious. They pretty much each have their 3rd of the tank; left, center, and right. This is "left" and "center", with "center" venturing into "left's" territory:


There's also a pair of fullbar B/W ocellaris in the tank, but I didn't take a specific picture of them this go-around. Nothing special about them, but they were the first fish in the tank.

Spied in other photos, but an okayish shot of the fromia starfish. He was cruising yesterday; parking today.:


And now onto my mass of coral

I'll try to ID everything as I go here:

Wellso:




Lobo. Looks a bit washed out at this angle, but the center is a Hunter green, the surrounding is a dark blue-green. Looks better in some other photos here:


Some rare florescent orange PPEs, and a bleached, but recovering Tyree sunset monti look-alike:


Orange and green yumas:


Rics:


Acan rotundoflora:


Chalice:


Rare/special piece of chalice, stole this in an online auction:


Maze brain frag, baby blue centers:


Acan:


Something you don't see too often, especially in this color: Moseleya:




Dragon soul favia:


Acan, favia and another acan in the background:


Acan (sniped this one from 2in10 in an online auction ):


Blastos (grow very well where they're at), acan barely in view, super neon fungia, a recovering Tracy (no idea why it went through some tissue recession), and a small favia frag (pink/green):


Close up of the fungia:


More of the same, you can see the entire blue/chocolate acan now, favia, and branching pink cyphastrea at the back. Male Ocellaris peaking in:


A couple acan enchinatas, chalice, maxima clam, and a coral banded shrimp molt:


Golden eye chalice, and an ORA blue chalice:


Blue spotted mushrooms:


Purple digi, acan:


Acro simplex (this has a unique green shimmer to it that you'll never see in a photo):


Blue moon acro, orange pavona, sparkly purple death palys, kryptonite zoas, a pink/puprle/gold skirt zoa, acro simplex again:


Blue moon acro, more zoas:


Rainbow pocillopora, real Tyree true undata, zoas, branching hammer:




Baby blue/lime green zoa, blue lagoon milli, midnight ryder acro:


ORA green birdsnest:


Superman monti, pagoda at bottom:


Sean Bennet Tort:


Pink milli, scripts milli, miami vice zoas, AOG palys (pissed):


Closer on the Scriptts Milli:


Blue formosa, gin & tonic zoas (reef pets):


Red planet (mediocre pic):


Rainbow Monti:


Purple psammocora:


Gold torch, more Midnight Ryder acro, gin & tonic zoas:


Huge chalice (~10" across):


Bird of paradise, duncans (with extra long skirts):



Not to digress, but a few things that were missed in prior photos and I didn't/couldn't get a better picture of:

Cyphastrea behind tang, different acan in the direction the tang is looking:


Branching hammer on right, green with pink tips. Pagoda cup on left:



And I'm tried of typing.

Is everyone happy now?

 

Shameless bump?

 

much happier here

Thank you Evolved

some very cool fish that had made me overlook the corals previously

all seem to be doing well IMO

Steve