Steve Goldsmith's 55 gallon tank build

I like that plan.

 

Has anyone had luck with a Blue Spot Jawfish?

 

Not necessarily true, it depend on the individual fish. I know many reefers who keep these fish w/o any major problems, but then there are those that will destroy many of your corals.

 

Yeah. It's worth a try. Especially if it goes as planned.

 

Love the fish, but be forewarned they will jump through even the tiniest of holes and carpet surf. Need a decent size sand bed and rubble to be happy and you have to get a really good quaility speciman and not mind the digging. Full of personality.

 

For my experience with dwarf angel, my first flame angel barely touched anything before it dies, then my coral beauty is giving my acan/scoly/monti/green slimer a hard time... I have to use some soda bottle to make a cover for some corals... However it never touched other corals like frogspawn, hammer, zoa and other softies, and candy cane, bottlebrush acro...

 

Thanks for the help guys(and gals)! I might just make it FOWLR. It's difficult. Unless I do decide to get a t5 fixture thus building a meshed covering over the tank. I used to have Ropefish in a freshwater tank and I never had one for over a month. cool fish, but huge jumpers. The only opening in the tank wasn't as big as a pencil too.

 

UPDATE: No more pics yet; nothings changed. BUT I contacted my LFS and they're going to deliver 53 gallons of saltwater to my house tomorrow. they deliver and sell the water for about $50; an ideal price that's less than I expected. They're also delivering 40 lbs of dry sand and 20 lbs of live sand. Do you think this will be deep enough? Then, later(after earning a couple weeks of allowance) I'm going to go and order 50 lbs of Carribean base rock from ReefCleaners, and also add some LR to seed the BR that I've been cycling in a 10 gal for the last couple months. does this sound good to everyone? any objections, please post.

 

An update. About a week late. Added water, Aragonite sand, and about 11 lbs of live rock. Also thought i would throw in a couple pics of other tanks. (Freshwater)

 

freshwater tanks look good; is that a rainbow shark i see? as for the SW tank seems to be coming along pretty well. no fair; you get cool rock from RC and i get this crappy LR from my LFS XD but everyones telling me to just keep it so i guess i'll do that. anyway, coming along nicely ;D