MoJoe's 70g CUBE Build! (NEW PIC 6/19/15)

A two spot tang looks great when a juvenile when their tail is yellow.

 

thanks for the suggestions guys, how about an ACHILLES TANG!!!! haha I'm kidding, I WISH, love them.

My current stocklist is:

- 1 Aussie Tusk (my fav, I know he's gonna get big someday )
- 1 Ocellaris
- 1 Banggai Cardinal
- 1 Coral Beauty
- 1 Royal Gramma
- 1 Flame Hawk
- 1 Mandarin
- 1 Yellowhead Jawfish
- 1 Yellow Watchman Goby

I have a lot of smaller fish, love lots of activity in the tank. It's good too since they don't take up a lot of the bio-load. I am toying with putting a nice wrasse in there or a smaller Tang, not sure. My heart is always set on the larger fish but I will do my best to not buy anything that gets too big. Even though my Tusk will, love him though, never found an Aussie that size before. I did have a smaller Aussie Tusk that died suddenly.

 

I think a nice harem of flasher wrasse would be a nice addition...right after the achilles tang jk

 

I re-scaped a little after I had to tear some things up to get a fish out. I'm liking it, got a Ecotech Radion too, love it:

 

Looks like everything is growing in quite nicely.

 

It's been a while since I posted a pic of my tank. I've had a single Radion over it for a few months now (had a 250w MH pendant initially). It has taken a bit to get the light dialed in & to acclimate everything to it.

A few notes on the LEDs & my tank:

- my RBTA's do seem to stretch more for the lights, you'll notice the middle one is extended wayyyy up, never had that with my 250w MH pendant. My brightness is currently around 80 under "normal" mode and I have had it at 100% also but the RBTA behaved similarly. The light is 8" off the water and my depth is at 15 currently. I have made some graphs under "artificial" mode but found I liked natural better.

- I got one frag of Plum Crazy (my 1st SPS other than my Monti) and I cannot tell if it is growing yet, it's def not bleached or dying but I feel like the Radion is sustaining it, not sure, we'll see. My Monti is doing well under it though.

- I added a bunch of Marco Key Largo to the tank, wanted my scape higher, finally happy with it after lots of tinkering. The stark white of it is finally starting to brown and age.


- Got a nice bi-color angel, gorgeous. Unfortunately as expected, it has began nipping at my Maxima and leathers. So far damage is minimal but I'm keeping an eye on it. Other than that it's doing well, which is good as I know they are not the hardiest of the dwarves.

- the Sinularia is mad because I had just moved it before the pic

Thanks for checking it out if you did!

 

Tank looks great MoJoe, give the acro time they seem to take longer to acclimate than montis IME. It the frag was small it does seem to take forever before they start growing.

 

Thanks bud! I will be patient on the Plum, since it's my first I'm just anxious to watch it develop & LPS really spoils you on growth. Those Duncans towards the bottom left started as 2 heads and now they're prob at 20 in a few short months!

 

Duncan looks fantastic as does the whole tank.

The sleeper goby looks like a ham.

 

I envy your build. Love your corals.