Zander's 125 Gallon Reef Tank

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  1. Zander

    Zander Spaghetti Worm

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    125 Gallon All Glass Aquarium
    140 Lbs of Caribbean Live Sand
    200 lbs of Live Rock
    1200 GPH CS Dual Bulk Head overflow
    1600 GPH Grech Wavemaker
    36'' Trigger Systems Crystal Fuge/Sump
    Reef Octupus NW100 Protein Skimmer

    Fish:

    6 Blue/Green Chromis
    2 Blue Fin Chromis
    1 Power Brown Tang
    1 Blue Tang
    1 Green Mandarin
    5 Ocellaris Clownfish

    Coral

    Brown Birdnest Coral
    Long Polyp Leather Toadstool
    Red Acan Lord
    Green Trumpet Coral
    White Pom Pom Xenia
    Pink Creeping Xenia
    Dragon's Breath Zoa
    Radioactive Dragon Eye Zoa
    Agent Orange Zoa
    Green Button Polyps
    Orange/Green Stripe Button Polyps
    Orange/ Green Dot Button Polyps
    Green Star Polyps
    Blue/Green Striped Mushrooms
    Giant Green Polyp Duncan Double Head
    Goniopora Coral
    Branched Frogspawn



    CUC:

    1 - Sand Sifting star
    2 - Pencil Urchins
    2 - Skunk Cleaner shrimp
    5 - Emerald Crabs
    2 - Fighting Conchs
    35- Nassarius Snails
    3 - Peppermint Shrimp
    5 - Mexican Turbo Snails
    75 - Assorted Hermit Crabs
    120 - Dwarf Cerith
    35 - Florida Cerith
    45 - Nerite Snails
     
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    Zander, Mar 20, 2011
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  2. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    Welcome to 3reef!

    Nice find on the tank, it looks great. Has it cycled yet?
     
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  3. bvb-etf-luva

    bvb-etf-luva Banned

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    i would take a tooth brush to scrub off all the organic waste and nuisance algae on those rocks, thats what i do when i get a new batch of live rock
     
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  4. twelvebeer

    twelvebeer Spaghetti Worm

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    Damn dude! All that life on that rock is awesome!
     
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  5. Zander

    Zander Spaghetti Worm

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    Not completely, It was just started a few days ago. I am waiting on any spikes of ammonia or nitrates from the live rock from anything that may die off. I plan on stocking it with fish in 2 weeks to be safe.

    Yeah every few hours I have been using a feeder and pushing the waste of with water current. It is slowly getting better.
     
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  6. Zander

    Zander Spaghetti Worm

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    At $4 a pound I would say so, I have bought live rock before from local stores and no comparison. His base rock was better then what stores carry. You can see some base rock on the bottom of the tank and I have 1 piece on top that doesn't have much going on with it yet.

    Thanks for the comments!
     
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  7. regmc

    regmc Plankton

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    I like your aquascaping. Looks great. With that rock and live sand cycling should take long. Just finished replacing a 55. Used live rock from the lfs that had been under metal halides for 3 weeks, 1/2" pvc frame, and live sand. No amonia spike, no nitrite spike, after 1 week all test were great. Started adding fish and corals. To me it is a beautiful tank. When I learn how to upload pics, (I'm an old f***", I'll try to do so.

    I'm envious.

    Reg
     
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  8. Zander

    Zander Spaghetti Worm

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    Lol thanks!

    photobucket.com is your friend, it makes things easy!
     
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  9. fishyfinder

    fishyfinder Teardrop Maxima Clam

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    Looks good!
     
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  10. Zander

    Zander Spaghetti Worm

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    Added some new pics.

    Completed the canopy and addded my CUC in its entirety(for now at least).

    Sorry for the blurry pic of the Polyps but they are really starting to spread!

    Next is my Fuge!
     
    Zander, Mar 24, 2011
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