TPF's 50g Reef Edutope (YOU CAN HELP)

Well I've been collecting stuff for this for a while now and its finally coming to life! This is a 50 gallon (36"x13"x24") Tenecor Acrylic AIO. The display area is quite narrow, only about 10" wide but it'll do.
This tank is setup to educate kids both about corals and reef ecosystems, but also about reef conservation (hopefully I can do some fragging). This tank will be tied directly with the curriculum and will be invaluable in teaching kids about reefs.

Stocking for this tank was chosen based on coloration, space occupied in the water column, temperament, hardiness, activity level, and mostly interesting behaviors.
Stocking will be as follows:

1 Sleeper Banded Goby
1 Longnose Hawkfish (I know its a risk)
1 [STRIKE](small, sorry guys) Yellow Tang [/STRIKE] Longnose Buterflyfish
*perhaps* a pair of clowns if I can get them hosting


Assorted Euphyllids
GSP
Assorted "tree" softies (sinularia, kenya tree etc)
Assorted Leathers
Some other donated stuffs

Inverts are pending, I'm thinking a cleaner shrimp and your basic run-of-the-mill CUC

Tank will be lit by a 54 watt CREE LED fixture, the PC is the fuge light.
I'll try to get pics up later, if you'd like to donate fish/coral just post below!

 

Cleaning:



All cleaned out:



Almost full:



Sandbed, 4": 3" Aragonite and 1" reef sand



Preliminary rockscape:



Filled!



Filtration area:
From left to right; overflow, chemical filtration tower, form orange to orange is the refugium, return


We need more live rock, so if you have any please PM me!
Thats all for now

 

Nice job, that scape actually looks pretty good.

I am sure the kids will be very pleased and it will a good amount of attention.

 

Hey, congrats! That's great that you are able to get a tank set up in the school. I think it is very cool that you were able to get the hobby to tie into the class! Is this particular science class new class in your school, or is just the tank new?

 

Thanks, still needs more rock though...
Actually all the teachers come stare at it during their breaks, so I'm sure the kids will love it!

The tank is actually in my second grade science teachers class, she contacted me about doing this a while back and I finally found the perfect tank.

 

I can't wait to see this tank take off! Yay!

 

I was thinking about replacing the yellow tang with a Longnose Butterfly or Schooling Bannerfish (Heniochus diphreutes). I don't think the long nose should be a problem with softies and LPS, and that particular species of Henochius is a planktonic feeder.

 

This is awesome, following!

 

Decided on replacing the tang with a Longnose Butterfly. Don't look too hard to care for and definitely have the interesting or unusual factor I'm looking for.
I saw one do a backflip in someones tank and that somewhat sold me on the fish.
Plus we won't have SPS, only stinging LPS and Octocoralians so coral nipping shouldn't be a problem! Finally no need to worry about aptasia, I can pul some rock from anywhere now!
The Heniochus diphreutes will be too hard to tell apart from the corallivorous Heniochius species and I don't want to end up with a coral muncher.

 

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