Peredhil 55 Gallon Thread

New Power Heads

I got the last of my new power heads in and rearranged the ones I already had.

Here's what I ended up with after playing with it until all the corals I have had a random flow based on their movement.






I also trimmed some teeth on my surface skimmer box so I could raise it higher than the inlet pipe was allowing. Used a dremel.

No good pics of that.

 

Very nice! Everything looks good. STOP THAT GSP!!! lol They grow really fast. Everything looks healthy! K+

 

Tank looks really good. Just make sure you keep that Athelia in check or it will dominate your tank. Keep it on a rock at the top of a stack so you don't give it something to attach too. But then again some people like them, just wanted to warn you.

Keep up the good work on the pics.

 

New Bi-Color Blenny






Neat little dude. Likes to sit on top of the power heads too. I call him Blenny.

I call my albino african clawed frog "Binny the albino" so the name is a little bit fun.

 

Congrats on the new blenny, they're awesome little fish.

 

overflow lid

I posted here http://www.3reef.com/forums/protein-skimmers/need-ideas-block-skimmer-intake-fish-57837.html to get some ideas on putting a lid on my surface skimmer overflow because my blenny decided to take up residence in the skimmer.

In the end, this is what I did. And it's been working so far.

I took one of these




And made this





Hurray!

 

Took some pics to share





notice the feather duster




I have three of these. The same three that came with the tank when it was transferred to my house. I feed them every couple of weeks raw fish or shrimp or even fish food pellets. Here are pics of two of them.







Open and Closed




Clean up Crew hard at work

 

Looking really really good! Your tank is so stinkin clean. What's your secret?

 

Being my first tank - it's beginners luck.

When you get started you don't really have your own opinions. And since opinions vary you have to pick which ones to go with and then kind of stick to that theme. When I was deciding on my Clean up Crew I took John's advise and it's worked wonderfully. (I probably have around 150 snails in my 55g and about 15 hermits).

I also think the way I went about letting the Clean up Crew do its thing without my interference helped a lot. But I have no point of comparison to back this claim up. My own feeling.

It's all nicely documented here (my favorite thread of mine ;D)
http://www.3reef.com/forums/inverts/clean-up-crew-53007.html

 

New Coral

My new Plate. I've wanted this one and the bubble since I started. Very happy to have them.





The Bubble came on an unanticipated shape of cut rock. I had to find somewhere other than planned for it. Got to be adaptable!






This is my Torch. I think I'm going to adjust the flow for it. It's in the top 1/3 of tank under T5.




Aussie Lord Acan





Zoa's





Perspective shots