My new 125 build

Nice aquascaping..

 

Picked up my first anemone today. It's a bubble tip that has green to red tentaces. I was hoping it would stay in that little hole I set it in but it has already started to migrate. I just hope it starys on the rocks where you can see it and doesen't go hide behind something and never see it.

Not the greatest shots.



Actinics only

 

Got a chance to get some better pictures this morning. The nem crawled behind a rock last night, but emerged this morning as hasn't moved in a while so maybe it's found a home.

Armor of god Zoas




Long lash Eagle eye Zoas havent really opened up all the way yet.



And the RBTA

 

I have a disease I think. Was bored today so I drove around to a bunch of fish stores. Got a pair of media reactors to run pos-ban and carbon in. Also, got a couple frags and a new fish. Spent some time taking pictures also so here are some new ones.

Media Reactors


Here is the whole wet/dry set-up


Full under stand shot. I picked up a new light for the fuge this week also, I used to just use one of those clamp on lights with a 30 watt spiral flourescent bulb. New light is a corallife 2 x 18w Frehwater T5 strip 6700K and full spectrum bulbs.


Took some macro shots of the pods in my fuge.





Yellow and Blue Ricordia


Acan


Bar Goby (Ptereleotris zebra)


Fed the RBTA some shrimp. Coolest thing I have ever seen watching it swell up to swallow the shrimp.




Full Tank Shot

 

Looks great! Some of that aquascape looks like faces. Really different. Questions: How do you have your T5 lights set up? Dawn/Dusk - Daylight? Or just daylight? Do you have moonlights? I have similar bulbs for my 8x54W T5 setup. My setup from front to rear is:
1 ATI Blue Plus 450mn
2 GE 6500K daylight
3 UVL 75/25 (14K) dawn/dusk
4 ATI Blue Plus
5 UVL aquasun (10K pink)
6 ATI Blue Plus dawn/dusk
7 ATI Aquablue (12K)
8 ATI Blue Plus
I like mixing in the 75/25 into the dawn/dusk for a little more light than I had it originally setup with 2 blue bulbs. Good luck!

 

I'm running 6 x 80w bulbs on the 125. There are 2 bulbs per ballast so I have 1 ballast on a separate timer that comes on an hour before and stays on an hour later than the other 2 for dawn dusk. I put 2 Blue+ bulbs on that ballast so it's only blue and actinic for dawn/dusk. I made my own moonlights from 3 x 12" strips of Blue LEDs mounted down the center of the canopy.I would have liked to be able to fit 8 bulbs in there but I would have had to ordered two 36" aquatinic reflectors for each bulb as the only reflector I found for the 5' bulbs was the Icecap SLR reflectors and at 2.5" wide they are too wide to do 8 bulbs over a 18" wide tank.

I'm running

1. ATI Aquablue
2. GE 6500K
3. ATI Blue+
4. ATI Blue+
5. ATI Aquablue
6. ATI Blue+

7+8. There is a 32w 50/50 PC bulb on each end of the canopy now since it's a 6' tank with only 5' bulbs I filled up the extra space.

I have a few more bulbs I was playing around with trying to find the color that pleased my eyes the most and this is what I ended up with.

 

I would try and I say just try setting it up this way
ATI Blue+
GE 6500K
ATI Aquablue dawn/dusk
ATI Blue+ dawn/dusk
ATI Aquablue
ATI Blue+
See how that looks for you and let me know what you think. My setup was designed by the grim reefer from reefcentral.com. He is a T5 expert and I love what he did for the look of my tank. Look him up on reefcentral.com and send him a private message and you'll get an answer in no time. The man is a friggin' genius. Good luck dude! 8)

 

Stopped up at the Coral Ranch today and picked up a few things. I got 2 more cleaner shrimp. Also, got some nerite snails, new to nerities but they look cool and were $1 each, so we'll se how they do in the tank.

Anyways here are the pics of the new stock.

Armageddon Palys


st.Thomas Ricordea (not al that bright hopefully it colors up)


I also decided to see if I can rescue this wall hammer (he said they had a shipping delay and this died off some so he gave it me for almost nothing)



Took a Macro shot of one of the Nerites

 

After failing to coax my black ocellaris into my RBTA I was looking for a clown that would host my RBTA. I'm going to try and house both clown species for a while to see if they can co-exist, so far so good no agression yet. But the Allardi loves the RBTA.

Allardi Clownfish (Amphiprion allardi)

 

thats the same hob overflow i had when i started 5 years ago, but that tank is alot nicer then the 55 i had back then