Corey's 50 Gallon Starphire Cube Reef Mix

[cor4eyh]

I have a tank thread on my local forum. Thought it was time to start a thread here .

Started with a 20 gallon Tall that I slowly added equipment and livestock and corals over a year then for my birthday in August 2014 I gotta 50 gallon Starphire cube from SCAquariums.com These guys really make quality stuff.

Anyways I'll add some pictures to the next reply

Current livestock:
2 True Perc Clownfish
1 Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse
2 Green/blue Chromis
1 Dwarf FuManChu Lionfish
1 Yellow Belly Blue Hippo Tang
1 Yellow Diamon Watchman Goby

Corals
Frogspawn
Red Birdsnest
Green Birdsnes
Frogskin acro
2 different 3 color acros
Green Star Polyps *wifes fav looks like grass*
Pulsing xenia *also fave*
Blasto
Acan enchinata
And about 30 diff types of zoas
Eagle eyes
fire and ice
mohawks
cherry charms
orange rainbow
Giant Green paly
blueberry fields
radioactive green
pink hallucination


Will add more as I remember

Also have 2 BubbleTip Anemones One Rose other green/uncolored

Equipment list as of Now
SCAquarium 50 gallon starphire cube with durso overflow
a no name return pump
SC103 Skimmer
BRS Dual Reactor for gfo and Carbon
IT2040 LED with timer *hoping someday for kessils*
1 very old but still working MP10 on reef crest mode
1 new WP10 on wave mode
Tunze Osmolator Auto Top Off


Now for some pictures.

 

[ReeferRookie]

Wow cant wait to see some pictures

 

[cor4eyh]

Hey thanks! Yes I'll post soon busy day today!

 

[ReeferRookie]

Take ur time

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Following! Can't wait for pics! Welcome to R2R!

 

[cor4eyh]

Following! Can't wait for pics! Welcome to R2R!

Thank you!

 

[cor4eyh]

Here is assembled and filled with salt water. Too excited to take pictures of water testing so here's my first rock!

And I realize that I should have put rock and sand in first but I had a tank up and running and had to wait till I got sand!

here it is before the actual light and stand but lit and in the living room!

Got everything transferred corals fish rocks and clams! Now to aquascape!

 

[cor4eyh]

Finished the aquascape and got everything glued down for now.

 

[cor4eyh]

Tanks all cleared up bought a new anemone and am nursing one back to life in the floating breeder box
My final aquascape. Still got some coral placement to figure out. but for now its clear and happy! At this time my 2 clowns were false percs one was half black and other was normal false perc.

 

[cor4eyh]

Now for some closeups from the DSLR dont have a macro lens yet but someday!

 

[cor4eyh]

Some fishes Dori of course

One of the clowns before

and the other clown before

I'm sure your wondering why I keep saying before? I'll show you in the next post.

 

[cor4eyh]

Got off work and came home to see this little guy decided to go carpet surfing!well instead of fighting nature and getting false Percs to host that beautiful anemone I took my surviving clown to my local fish shop "Cuttlefish & Corals" and he gave me a good deal on some true Percs. More pics to come with them. I added then to the breeder box with the anemone and then waited a day then added them to the tank 1 stays in the anemone and the other swims freely!

Always a tragedy in an aquarium but where there's tragedy there's also hope!

Anyway back to the fun stuff!

 

[cor4eyh]

Some partial closeups here now!
Started as 2 heads of a duncan now we have this!

My beautiful RBTA I got at the local fish store!

A tricolor Acro blue purple and green its a bit brown right now but hopefully color will come back after some time!

Frogskin acro wonderful little piece here cant wait for the growout

My derasa clam i got from a local guy! Love this thing so cool!

My beloved pug i call him my FuManChu Dwarf Lion

My favorite type of stick a MILLIE

 

[cor4eyh]

Have some zoas on order that i need to go pickup this week hopefully I'll get those in and then I'll take some more pics.

P.S. After everything transferred I had around 30+ different types of zoas but i found out i had a byropsis outbreak. Most of my local forum guys advised just tossing those frags and I obliged. Although I realize i could have beaten it with magnesium from Kent M I decided that those particular frags were not worth the time and am just going to be much more picky for future zoa purchases. I met a local forum guy at the LFS and he hooked me up with a ton of zoos. Most of which without being under all blues were just reddish zoas. I didnt love them and my wife didnt either. However she did love the 5 color rainbow i had so In my new quest of collecting zoas I'm looking for anything and everything thats colorful all the time. So until then thanks for following along. I'll add some pictures of my sump and my refugium and equipment etc etc the next time I add. Any advice on info I'm still learning as we all are everyday. Learned alot in the past year! *Started my first reef Sept 2013 Now beginning my second bigger tank reef. So still learning alot.

 

[cor4eyh]

Some photos from today! Woohoo got some super glue everything is glued and in place much better!!!

 

[cor4eyh]

As everyone loves to see the equipment. Here's the Sump\

Sc Aquariums skimmer 103 someday upgrade probably although seems to work well.

BRS Dual Reactor Carbon and GFO

Refugium and return pump and my Light for fuge

Tunze Osmolator Auto Top Off

 

[cor4eyh]

Favorite fish so far although I wish he was more active
FuManChu

 

[cor4eyh]

Got some new zoas!

Blonde blue eyed *******
Fruit loops
Rastas
Red and blue hornets
Night crawlers

 

[fishroomlady]

LOVE that tank!

 

[cor4eyh]

LOVE that tank!

Thanks it's amazingly beautimus!