TomatoSauceTy
Active Member
Hey everyone, I just wanted to show off my tank a little bit that I love so much and hope everyone else likes it just as much or has some critiques! :mad:
I use to have a 20gH which I heavily neglected which you will see in pictures and have moved everything over to a 50g 24x24x20 tank. Most of the rock from the old tank was used only for the sump and dry rock for the display. I use to use t5's and have switched to a kessil to keep a very clean look and love it even though I want to use max intensity ASAP! =/ *my candy cane stems receded when I got power hungry. I'm finally using a skimmer mainly because I decided on a predator(venomous) tank since they won't jump out and I've always loved them.
My old tank was mainly LPS and I have gotten rid of any softies and now it's a pure LPS tank. I have been debating sharing my tank; part of me is scared since some people have such high quality corals, and the other part is I'm going to be adding 2-5 new corals after MACNA. My plans are to get a yellow hammer to put in the middle of the other hammers, a pale green / blue candy cane to put on the other candy cane rock, and IF I see acans I must have I might swap the two I already have, and lastly I really want to get a different brain for the front. *FUTURE UPDATES!* I will then let everything grow out and be happy.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm really trying to break up the colors and have a bit of contrast here and there. The top is very bright green, the lower section is more rainbow etc...so I put the lemon glaze lower to have a pop, I really want to move the blue scoly behind the right meat coral, but it would hide it...but it would help with a transition. I'm hoping the cyphastreas grow quickly to break up the green dominance up top.
Fish:
Fu Manchu Lionfish (LOVES PE Mysis and live ghost shrimp)
Yellow Leaf Scorpionfish (currently only eating live ghost shrimp)
*slowly working on prepared foods*
Corals:
2 hammers
3 favia: WWC diversity, WWC lemon glaze, cupid heart
2 meat corals
2 scoly
1 lobophyllia
2 cyphastrea: WWC bizaro, WWC four color
1 plate
1 kryptonite candy cane
1 blasto
2 CC rainbow acans...I guess =/ * I have such trouble having acans pop and the colors fade*
System Levels:
Temp 76.5*F
Ph 8.2
Ca ~400
Mg ~1280
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
I don't like to dose A&B or purple up, before I did based on tests and directions and I always ended up killing inverts. Now I just do water changes with Instant Ocean and things seem to be great and thrive. In my old tank I did weekly 5g water changes and now I'm doing 15g water changes weekly. This is my first attempt at preds and I'm glad my levels are doing great.
Now for the pictures...
I use to have a 20gH which I heavily neglected which you will see in pictures and have moved everything over to a 50g 24x24x20 tank. Most of the rock from the old tank was used only for the sump and dry rock for the display. I use to use t5's and have switched to a kessil to keep a very clean look and love it even though I want to use max intensity ASAP! =/ *my candy cane stems receded when I got power hungry. I'm finally using a skimmer mainly because I decided on a predator(venomous) tank since they won't jump out and I've always loved them.
My old tank was mainly LPS and I have gotten rid of any softies and now it's a pure LPS tank. I have been debating sharing my tank; part of me is scared since some people have such high quality corals, and the other part is I'm going to be adding 2-5 new corals after MACNA. My plans are to get a yellow hammer to put in the middle of the other hammers, a pale green / blue candy cane to put on the other candy cane rock, and IF I see acans I must have I might swap the two I already have, and lastly I really want to get a different brain for the front. *FUTURE UPDATES!* I will then let everything grow out and be happy.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm really trying to break up the colors and have a bit of contrast here and there. The top is very bright green, the lower section is more rainbow etc...so I put the lemon glaze lower to have a pop, I really want to move the blue scoly behind the right meat coral, but it would hide it...but it would help with a transition. I'm hoping the cyphastreas grow quickly to break up the green dominance up top.
Fish:
Fu Manchu Lionfish (LOVES PE Mysis and live ghost shrimp)
Yellow Leaf Scorpionfish (currently only eating live ghost shrimp)
*slowly working on prepared foods*
Corals:
2 hammers
3 favia: WWC diversity, WWC lemon glaze, cupid heart
2 meat corals
2 scoly
1 lobophyllia
2 cyphastrea: WWC bizaro, WWC four color
1 plate
1 kryptonite candy cane
1 blasto
2 CC rainbow acans...I guess =/ * I have such trouble having acans pop and the colors fade*
System Levels:
Temp 76.5*F
Ph 8.2
Ca ~400
Mg ~1280
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
I don't like to dose A&B or purple up, before I did based on tests and directions and I always ended up killing inverts. Now I just do water changes with Instant Ocean and things seem to be great and thrive. In my old tank I did weekly 5g water changes and now I'm doing 15g water changes weekly. This is my first attempt at preds and I'm glad my levels are doing great.
Now for the pictures...
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