thepanfish's 55 Reef, Take II *14 Pictures Added!* Mega Updated, 6/5, 6/6, 6/7

The Plan:
A 55 gallon high flow tank with mostly SPS corals some LPS and Softies and small schooling or pairs of fish.

Key ideas are simple, high flow, pest irradication, water changes every 2 weeks at least 10%, habitat, feeding well, dosing calcium

Equipment:
One of the main things that crashed my tank was the formation of "dead zones" where algae bloomed. To solve this I will have 2 powerheads instead of 1 pumping in a circular pattern around my tank. I would like to get an Vortech MP 20 or oth timed powerhead for this tank. Another important add will be a skimmer. Since I am limited to an HOB design, my choice will be severly limited. I am looki into the Reef Octopus HOB series as I have heard they are excellant. Finally I am adding a TEK 4X54W T5 light.

Fish:
So far there are many fish that I want for this tank, which may be too big. I am however moving to a 180 in 6 months so I think housing them and growing them for a short period of time before transfering them to a 180 would be OK. Most of these fish are mix and match I plan on housing a few, not all.

3 Lyretail Anthias CHECK
Baby Regal to go into 180?
Clown Goby Pair for Breeding
Target Mandarin
Swissguard Basslet
Swalesi Basslet
Mystery Wrasse
Potters Wrasse
Hoeven's Wrasse
Blue Gudgon Dartfish (school of 3)
Twinspot Goby

I will have to narrow this down to 4 or 5 I really like, this will likely change based upon whats I see in the stores.

Coral:
ORA Green Birdsnet
Easy Acros
Bright Montis (have a blue one)


AS for CUC
LOTS of sand sifters,
A few more Mexican Turbos
Astreas
Urchin


PICS SOON!
Louis

(please keep in mind that my tank did not completely crash but rather the algea and phosphates got to the point where things were starting to suffer. I removed most of the rock and added new CYCLED rock, then waited 3 weeks before adding any fish and a month before coral. I KEPT ALL SAND 10% OF LR AND ALL WATER)

 

So far fish-wise:
3 Blue-Eye Anthias

So far invert-wise:
17 Mexican Turbos
15 Nassarius
5 HUGE but useless Zebra Hermits
RBTA
Porcelain Crab
Cleaner Shrimp

So far coral-wise:
ORA Green Birdsnest
Multicolor Chalice
Orange Monti
Blue Tip Acro
Tyree Pink Lemonade
Dragon Eye Zooanthids
PPE Zoanthids
Symphilia
ORA Red Planet
Tyree Monti
Duncans
Blue Trumpet
Red Acans
Welsophyllia

 

subscribed waiting for the pictures! Sounds good to me.

 

I'll have pics after the water change, I still have to move some stuff around, install my new T5 and get a skimmer and phosban reactor.

 

Installed turbo-twist, I think I am going to hook up the phosban to the uv. Looking at an eschopps skimmer, bsk 100

 

Sorry, no update in a while....Ended up with a reef octo BH100S, and current fish list is still just the anthias. Added quite a few corals including Tyree Pink Lemonade ORA Red Planet, Tri Color Acro, Duncan Colony, Symphilia Colony, Acan Colony, and an RBTA.
Params are all within the norm, 10 gallon waterchanges every week.
Teaser Pics

 

nice looking nem

 

Yeah panfish, that is a tease.

Your dare list RP, Pink Lemonade and Tri color with no images.......lol

Following.

 

Thanks BVB, can't get a good pic of it open, it looks yellow...

Haha, will see what I can do

Can anyone tell me how to take good pics with my VERY blue tank lighting?

 

depends on the camera, mine has a natural light setting that makes the blue lights look a little less blue and it doesnt glare the glass or anything.