Kyle and Ashley's 75 gallon tank!

I would email John at Reefcleaners.org and see what he has to say.

 

Just an update, we have slowly been adding some crabs in to manage the funk in the tank, we are up to 15 red stripe hermits, 5 blue dwarf hermits, 2 peppermint shrimp, and just today added a porcelin crab and a emerald crab. Nitrates are slowly declining, and we are down to about 40 ppm, so we are happy. We tested the water in the bag from the lfs and it was arnd 80ppm of nitrates, which is scary. We also picked up a flipper cleaner, which worked very well at getting rid of the film algae.

I had some time after work one day and got all of the cords up off the floor of the sump, and added a large power strip that spans the length of the fuge area under the tank.

We are probably still 2 or 3 weeks away from getting our first fish, but we are making progress!

Here are some pictures:

 

Emerald crabs are nice. Mine keeps on getting bigger and bigger though.

 

Yeah, that picture really shows all the bits of debis that are all over everything. We got the pair of peppermint shrimp to work on the aptasia we having popping up everywhere, but they dont seem to terribly interested in it.

As soon as that emerald crab hit the bottom he started eating everythin he could reach, so hopefully he will do a good job! The porcelin crab hid immediately, and i havent seen much of him since, which sucks cause i like watching them eat...

 

Oh, and I'm ordering an swc cone 160 tonight from big als, so we will see how that goes, the colarlife skimmer that came with that used set up isn't cutting it, so it will be for sale here soon.

 

After reading this thread http://www.3reef.com/forums/general-reef-topics/buyers-beware-126980.html I tend to not suggest SWC to anyone. Just my .02 cents though.

 

Thanks for the heads up... Back to the drawing board I suppose.

 

Just ordered an eshopps s-150 skimmer, and am looking at getting a sizeable order ready for liveaquaria. This is what i am thinking so far:


Item # Name Price * Qty * Total Remove
CN-78348
SW - Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (Sri Lanka) - Small
$ 18.99
x

=
$18.99

CN-78439
SW - Banded Coral Shrimp (Cebu/Indonesia) - Medium
$ 8.99
x

=
$8.99

CN-78129
SW - Longspine Urchin, Black (Caribbean) - Medium
$ 19.99
x

=
$19.99

CN-86564
SW - Emerald Crab
$ 7.49
x

=
$7.49

CN-78465
SW - Blood Red Fire Shrimp (Sri Lanka) - Medium
$ 26.99
x

=
$26.99

CN-39634
SW - Blue Tuxedo Urchin - Medium
$ 24.99
x

=
$24.99

CN-37155
SW - Ocellaris Clownfish, Tank Bred (Africa) - Small
$ 14.99
x

=
$29.98

CN-74760
SW - Yellow Tang (Hawaii) - Small
$ 29.99
x

=
$29.99


Input?

We have our baby shower coming up, and we will be out of town for 3 days, so im starting to look at auto feeder options as well as food that both the clowns and tang could eat while we are gone.

 

Got my cuc from reefcleaners, and our first fish ordr from liveaquaria, here are a few pics! We are at 10ppm nitrates, and still dropping, our cyano is growing at a pretty good clip. When we got it, it was roughly tennis ball sized, now it is the size of a small melon.

 

Progress looks great, congrats on the new adds