Infantry1327's 40G Reef tank

Nice rock. Where did you get it?

 

If you are talking about the rock in my display. I got it from a friend. He gave it to me because he down sized his tank and had to much.

 

So I figured I would give you guys a quick update. I got a few more fish.
havent named any of them yet, except my powder brown tang

I picked up a orange spotted gobby


2- Lawn Mower Blennys



a Six Line Hawaii Wrasse


and my faviorite, "Poon" the Powder Brown Tang

 

next will be a maited pair of true percula clown fish and that will be all my fish for a while. Don't want to over crowd the tank.

How long do you guys think I should wait before adding some small soft corals?

My levels are still perfect and been holding strong. I am going to do a 10% water change tomarro.

 

I like your tank Infantry. Looks good from start to finish. I am not a fan of the donut look either but you still pulled it off. I love the powder brown. My 1 lawn mower cleaned a fully loaded 55 of hair algae in a week... you're going to need alot of those seaweed wraps to feed them and the tang. You might have to double up 2 of them 2-3 x's a day. I love the sump too! I wish I could incorporate that but I have a 36" PC on mine. I have to make my own thread of my tanks progression.... GOOD WORK!!! Keep the updates coming!

 

Thanks, and yea I have a ready supply of sea weed wraps. I manage a Petco, so I get 20% off all my feeding/suppliment needs.

All the brown looking algae thats in there right now was from over loading the tank with algae wraps when I got my tang. Figured he hadnt eaten in awhile to I kind of over did it. For about a day all my rock was covered in the stuff. Now it is almost all gone. The only fish I have that eats krill so far is the wrasse and coral banded shrimp. He loves the stuff. But I am getting a shipment of true percula clowns in at my work tomarro, so I may be makeing some new additions.

This hobby is very addicting.lol I am allready trying to find a used 150-210G to do a larger fish only tank. lol

 

is your powder brown tang eating for you?

 

he has been doing a number on my algae. He is very active and constantly picking algae off the rocks. If the lights are on, he is swimming and eating. He found this little cave on the side of the tank and backs in every so often. He then kicks it there for like 5 min then starts lapping the tank and eating algae. It will be a sad day when I haft to give him up. Unless I can afford to upgrade my tank size. Then I would keep him for ever.

 

Poon looks fantastic! I'm so glad you were able to rescue him!

 

So I got my first corals. Found a guy on craigs list selling frags for cheap. So hear is what I got. Keep in mind everthing is still a little closed up since I just put it in.

Armor of God 7 heads- $40



Pulsating Xenia $20



Some type of leather coral $10 it is much bigger than this