135 gallon Oceanic, Reef Ready (began May 2000)
320W VHO 2 super actinics (10 hours per day)
2 - 250W, 10K Metal Halides (6 hours per day)
20 gallon, long sump with bubble baffles
Reef Devil 3 skimmer with MagDrive 700 pump
MagDrive700 return
2 Maxijet 600 in display tank for current
2 150 watt heaters in sump
ground probe in sump
~120 lbs. of live rock, 3 inch crushed coral/sand mixed bed
as of 12-30-03
pH 8.1
alk. 3.2
Nitrates 5 - 10 ppm
Calcium 370 ppm
SG 1.0261
Temp 81
Inhabitants:
Fish
2 Tank raised percula clownfish (November 2000)
1 bicolor angelfish (August 2002)
1 1" Yellow-tailed Damsel (January 2003)
1
Yellow Watchman Goby (August 2003)
1 Green Clown Goby (August 2003)
1 Yellow Tang (May 2004)
1 Yellow Citrine Goby (August 2004)
1 Rainfordi Goby (November 2004)
1 6" Naso Tang (December 2004)
Inverts
1 coral banded shrimp (September 2002)
2 peppermint shrimp (August 2002)
1 Pistol Shrimp (July 2003)
2 serpent stars (one red, one brown-banded)
30 turbo snails
Black Long-Spined Urchin (January 2004)
75 astrea snails
100 blue-legged hermits
misc snails (nassarius, trochus, etc.)
Corals
1 cup coral (July 2002)
brown/gold button polyp colony (October 2002)
1 striped mushroom (October 2002)
small clump of Yellow Polyps (October 2002)
small colony of waving hand anthalia (September 2002)
Purple Mushrooms (January 2003)
Green/Orange Ricordia Rock (March 2003)
Small Xenia colony (September 2003)
Orange Center Zooanthids (September 2003)
Sunflower Zooanthids (September 2003)
Bright Green Acropora frag (February 2004)
Fluorescent Green Branching Leather (February 2004)
Large Branching Torch (February 2004)
Purple/pink-tipped Montipora Digitat (April 2004)
Green Galaxea (April 2004)
Green/purple tipped Montipora Capricornus (July 2004)
Green center/brown skirt zoanthids (November 2004)
Pink and brown center/Orange skirt zoanthids (November 2004)
Small Teal/Aqua Acropora Colony (December 2004)
Deceased
1 Hippo Tang (July 2001) would not eat
1 Firefish (September 2001) - big mistake - harrassed by
dottyback
1 pink pin-cushion urchin (August 2002) - sudden death after 3 days in tank.
1 cleaner shrimp (May 2002) - bad acclimation????
1 Naso Tang (September 2002) - would not eat
1 3" Powder Blue Tang (May 2003) - no explanation
1 Threadfin Goby (October 2003) - close encounter with female
perc
1 Mandarin Goby (March 2004) - Would not eat
1 Lawn Mower Blenny (February 2004) - ??? Appeared to starve even though it ate from a good crop of algae
1 neon (cleaner) goby (May 2004) - Disappeared after 3 years in the tank
2 big Fire Shrimp (May 2004) - Disappeared after 2 years in tank. I suspect my Coral Banded Shrimp finally got big enough
2
Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (May 2004) - Disappeared after 2 years in tank. I suspect my Coral Banded Shrimp finally got big enough
1 4" Naso Tang (September 2004) - Bacterial Infection
1 5" Sohal Tang (October 2004) - Unexplainable, died 2 days after acclimation, ate very heartily (Stress?)
1 purple dottyback (October 2004) - Disappeared after 3 years in tank. Seemed to be less aggressive during past 4 months.
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