my 55g reef tank (work in progress)

looks good but the rock is up to you. i have seen some pretty sweet tanks that didnt have a lot of rock. you can make all sorts of designs for your fish instead of just a big mound. its all up to the builder though. those t5s do look good. another thing when i buy coral from the lfs it usually comes on a pretty good size rock if i want or they offer just the frags. so this is my thought if i see a coral i want usually i buy just the whole rock and place that in the tank. if you get a couple of peppermint shrimp they usually take care of any hitchhiking atapsia.

 

had the worst case of atapsia ever on another tank. they choked out everything. got two peppermints, pulled out the big ones with tweezers, and whatever reproduced from the big ones the shrimp took care of within two weeks. if you ever have a problem try that before you try thr juice and other troublesome tasks. i tried a copperband butterfly but he had no interest in them.

 

yea i have 5 pep shrimp and havnt seen 1 atapsia.... yea my bubble tip coral, gree star polyps and tree coral came on rocks...

 

keep up the great work

 

Thanks man

 

so im thinking about moving out of the parents house and having like my own lil fishtank room... but i want an in the wall fish tank so i was thinking of building this set up...

and building a walk around it basically.... and having a lil room inside of it to acess everything....
think itll work?!
THANKS!
DAVID

 

buuuuuuummmmmmpppppp

 

For the Fuge ,, use gravity to get water to the sump..Make the Fuge sit a few inches higher with 1" 90degree bulk heads in top of Fuge to drain into the Sump...

you wont have to worry about losing power or failing power head and flooding Fuge this way.

 

any up to date pictures?

 

right now this is what its at...

i hope to be adding more live rock in soon, just waiting on the lfs to get some in