My 75

[Jolieve]

Wow! A lot can happen in um... *counts on her fingers* five months!

Tank 75g acrylic. 48x15x24
Filtration: 60 pounds live rock. 4" dsb. Remora skimmer. No other filtration is in use on this system.
Water movement: provided by 4 maxijet 1200 powerheads.
Lighting: 2x 250w HQI DE Metal Halide pendants.
Heater is old and evil and soon to be replaced with two smaller, titanium heaters.

Livestock list:
3 green chromis
2 ocellaris clowns
2 scarlet cleaner shrimp
28 nassarius, 12 cerith snails, 1 fighting conch, 1 queen conch.
Corals:
Caribbean ricordia
Encrusting porites

 

[BlueFang]

Is it just me, can't seem to view any of the pics posted on this thread...

 

[Jolieve]

Wow... finally it's done. I've purchased the last piece of gear I needed to get this whole thing rolling along like a frieght train.

So new tank stats:
75 g acrylic.
2x250 w double ended metal halide lamps.
250 watt heater
20 gallon sump
Euro-reef ES5-3 skimmer
mag 9.5 pump for the return.
couple mj 1200's thrown in for extra flow over the rock.

Inhabitants: 3 green chromis.
2 ocellaris clowns.
5 dwarf zebra hermits.
Bunch of various other snails that are unworthy of my queen conch.
1 hawaiian duster.

Next stop... corals WAHOO!!!!

J.

 

[Jolieve]

Wow... it's nearly been a year. Just a month to go.

Updated stats and livestock list:

2x 250w DE MH lamps, 10,000k.
15-20 gallon sump, powered by mag 9 pump, with cpr cs-100 overflow box.
Euro-reef ES5-3 Protien skimmer (this thing so rocks).
3 mj 1200 powerheads. 2 running on alternating half hour cycles.
visitherm 250w heater, set at 78 degrees.
60 pounds live rock.
4" dsb.

Livestock:

3 green chromis (one year and still going strong)
2 ocellaris (very surly mated pair)
1 yellow tang, added yesterday.
1 t. derasa clam (very pretty, could not pass up)
1 queen conch
Other various snails, about forty at this point (definitely need more of these). Mixed bag of margaritas, 2 mexi turbos, 3 bumble bees, ceriths, nassarius and nerites.
15 dwarf zebra hermits.
1 colt coral.
1 encrusting porites.
1 blastomussa merletti.

Pics coming soon
J.

 

[ricky1414]

Must...post...more...pics...

 

[Jolieve]

I will take some for you this afternoon while the lights are on and see if I can't get them up this weekend. I also added a new neon orange m. digi frag a few weeks ago... that immediately got knocked over by one of my hermits... so I ended up with three of them

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Jolie, just wondering if you had any pics with the moonlight on. I am getting ready to set up another tank, and was kicking around picking one up. Only problem is, I'm going with pendants, so it will be tricky to fit one in somewhere.

Thanks,
HD

 

[Jolieve]

I can't get the pics of the tank to come out with the moonlight. I can tell you though, that for my tank, I wish that I'd bought two of them and put them on either end of the tank, angling toward the center.

The pinpoint led is very bright, and lights up the whole center of the tank, but that leaves the left and right sides of the tank in relative darkness. Still, it's a very neat effect and does allow for nightviewing of the critters.

I also have pendants. I mounted mine in the center of the canopy in between the two.

 

[Anonymous]

Right, but you have a canopy in which to mount it. I'm using the pendants as pendants hanging from the ceiling. Maybe I'll hold off on the moonlight until the day I should decide to build a canopy. Thanks, Jolie!

HD

 

[Jolieve]

Ah ha... now I get it.

You might check the DIY forum and see if anyone in there has some ideas for you on how to mount a moonlight over your tank without a canopy.

You could try building a decorative u-shaped support for it that balances it between your lights. Just use some 1" pine and get some of those little felt dots at Michael's to keep the wood from damaging the tank. Paint it to match decor. Mount moonlight to support thinger... on you go!

Good luck!
J.

 

[Anonymous]

That's a good idea, Jolie. I think I saw a moonlight that comes with a clip on flexible arm that might work, too. Thanks for the tip!

HD

 

[Jolieve]

Just some general updates:

Fish:
1 Yellow Tang
1 Green Chromis
1 Firefish
1 Female Lamarck's Angelfish
2 Ocellaris

Corals:
1 colt
2 M. Digi (neon orange variety).
1 pink bird's nest acro.
1 blue tip stag.

Inverts:
Various snails. Nerites, Margarita (I've got one left!), and a couple classic turbos along with five or so Tiger Trochus.
Hermits: 10 dwarf zebra hermits, two of which are not so dwarf.
Clams: Tridacna Derasa, Tridacna Crocea (purple/green with blue hues).

All are doing well and growing, new pics soon to come.

J.

 

[Jolieve]

New pics of the Lamarck's and the new Crocea!

 

[Jolieve]

And the crocea.. the rusty stuff is actually on the glass, and not on the sand as it appears in the image.

 

[Jolieve]

Orange M. Digi pic with the new digicam. The cam is a Sony Cybershot DSC-S90 for those into cameras

 

[Jolieve]

Female ocellaris doing what she does best.

 

[Jolieve]

Unconfirmed id on this one. Hitchhikers that came in on the LR, appears to be blastomussa merletti?

 

[Jolieve]

Not the best of my shots so far, but another hitch-hiker coral. Previously identified as an encrusting porites. I was told initially that this coral would not live long term. Since it was introduced, it has quadrupled in size and keeps growing.

 

[Jolieve]

Finally.. a good pic of the crocea that's pretty true to how it looks in the tank!