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[motownmego]

my names matt im new here to the forum. i live in eau claire. I have a 75 g reef with lots of live rock and mushrooms, 3 anenomies, yellow tang, kole tang, powder brown tang, 6 line wrass, maroon clown, and thanks to D.J. blue xenia and couple other corals. for lights i am running a 8 bulb t5 setup with lunar lights a fruval canister filter, and a red sea prizim HOt skimmer. and a new rena 300w heater becuase my old one went out.
I also have a 55 g fish only that has a bunch of live rock. for fish there is blue headed wrass, clown, 2 damsels and 3 anenomies. that tank has a power compact light setup with prizm skimmer and fruval canister filter. I look forward to meeting some of you guys at the meetings.

[schneijt]

Welcome to ECRC, Matt. It sounds like you have a couple nice tanks. I'm not a member of "The Tang Police," but I am concerned about you having three tangs in your 75. Tangs get quite large, so hopefully the three are small right now in your 75. Tangs need lots of swimming room in addition to getting so incredibly huge, so I strongly urge you to think about putting one of the tangs in the 55 gal if possible, and most likely finding a new home for one of the two remaining tangs in the 75 gal over time.

I sounds like your two tanks are running without sumps. If that's the case, I understand the need for a hang-on protein skimmer. However, I've owned a Prizm skimmer, and while it will pull the nasties out, unfortunately I know that it's not nearly enough skimming power for a 55 or 75-gallon tank. Hopefully it's producing lots of gunk for you in the collection cup, because you'll need every ounce of skimming power on your two tanks. You may want to consider a larger skimmer down the road, but I know that skimmers are expensive and you're probably not Oprah rich or anything...

If you can, you should post some pictures of your setups for everyone to view.

Again, welcome to ECRC,
Joe

[motownmego]

yeah i really dont like the skimmers at all i plan on going to a sump but i am going to wait awile. I have been doing alittle research on sumps but i still have alot more research to do. I understand about the tangs and I dont plan on having anymore fish in the 75 and the tangs are loving it they have alot of hiding places, but when they get bigger the yellow will be going to the 55 forsure.

[D.J.]

your welcome matt.....and when ya need some zoas...im fixing to have a BUTT load to frag...lol

tanks sound good....i tried the canister filters...they arent the best for saltwater...but they work....but of course no filter is really the BEST for saltwater....

i agree with joe on the tangs.....but some of us...not saying any names!! have a few to many fish for what we have!!! LOL....youll be ok with them for quite some time but like joe said they are gona get big...the kole for sure....

once ya get a chance im sure we'd all love to see your setups....so let us know when you can put up some pics....

[ReefLuvR]

Hiya Matt,

I said hi on the LARK forum too, Welcome! If you need anything, just give a holler. We're not as big as the LARK group, but a good group here as well.

Jennifer