The progression of my 55gal!!

Hey everyone! This is my 55gal. I got it from a friend who moved out of town, when I got it there was a clown tang, ebili angel, and marone clown, it was about 1year established. The sandbed was disturbed too much during the move so it had to re-cycle with one death, the angel. This project was rough in the beginning b/c a LFS sold me three yellow tangs at first and they all killed eachother, and everything that was already in the tank! I know now that was a bad move, I did not properly educate myself before buying(and the lfs should have told me before selling But I went to a new LFS and now my tank is nice and Happy... the pics are in chronolgical order! And again, I am open to all suggestions, constructive criticism, tips, or anything. Thank you!

 

WOW! looks like two completly differnt tanks! you did an awesome job!

 

Hey mark,
he tank looks awesome! That's a nice looking foxface too. I wish I had a larger tank to house one. Keep u the good work man.

BTW, do you run a sump?

 

Here are some close ups...my cleaner shrimp is a dare devil

 

wow great progression... like night and day between first and last pic.

 

Thanks WTF! Its been tough getting to this point but I made it;D. The foxface is great at eating all my algae! I run a HOB overflow into a 10gal wet/dry filter with an insump seaclone100 and rio2500 return.

 

Do you all think I can add more livestock or am I maxed out? I want to get a gobi or blenny...any suggestions?

 

I added some LR with orange sponge growth on it!..I need to get some green monti caps asap!

 

Looking good. I think your maxed out for fish. The foxface is a bigger fish and the anthias requires a lot of room.

 

New coraly goodness! good pics too

Hey guys, I just went to a local reefer with a sick 300gal setup and he set me up with some awsome corals/frags/rocks...Shrooms, rics, and caps. Let me know what experiences you've had with theses corals and how to help them thrive. The tank is about 4months old. I dose with 1 gtt iodine every other day, 4ml each of part A and B kents two part tech CB once a week, and Reef snow every other day....Thank you!