James's Sea Life Shadow Box

6/28/12


Equipment:
54w T5HO (×6) (odyssea brand fixtures that I retro-fitted in the canopy)
Digital timers from Lowes
Aqueon 55 power filter
Aqueon 950 gph circulation pump (×2)
Aqueon pro series 200w heater

Fish:
yellow tang
false perc clown
royal gramma
yellow watchman goby

Inverts:
various hermit crabs
various snail species (too numerous to count)
scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
three porcelain crabs (MIA)
maxi mini nem

Corals: (Im sure ill leave something out)
green frogspawn
maroon frogspawn
branching hammer
red monti cap
green monti cap
green birdsnest
hyacinth birdsnest
candy cane
green finger leather
devils hand leather
cabbage leather
pulsing xenia
kenya tree
bubble coral
white mouth lobophilia
red mushroom
blue mushroom
green mushroom
green star polyps
Yellow polyps
green implosion palys
and six or seven types of zoanthids

 

Very nice, what size is the tank?

 

Very pretty congrats

 

Oh sorry, cant believe i left that out. Its a standard 55. And thank you for your kind words. This tank is pretty young. I just upgraded to it in march from a 20 long. This was a freshwater tank that i got bored with.

Im currently making a diy sump for it. Today i got my acrylic for my sump, cut it, and taped it up to make sure it fit right. It will have four baffles. I havent decided the layout yet. The deminsions of the sump tank are 36×15×9. Its .25 inch acrylic. The baffles are 8.5×12.



Im going to have to assymble and glue it together under the stand. Also i have some scrap acrylic that ill probably make a center brace and a frag rack out of.

 

Welcome to 3reef James.

That is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

 

I assymbled and taped the tank together under the stand last night. Just started glueing it. Everything is glued except the bottom seem of the front pane. It has a gap that is giving me some trouble. But otherwise its looking really nice. Im pumped that im going to have a nice organized medium sized setup. Im planning on letting all of this cure and leak testing it before adding the baffles.

 

Leak testing


And then installed baffles

 

Looking good.

 

Thank you

 

You will be happy with the addition of the sump. Beautiful tank!