Our Living Room Saltwater Tank - May 30, 2007 We have been very fortunate with our first attempt at reefing. We have had good growth, and minimal losses on our path. We certainly have battled some algae, though. Since the shooting below we have gotten a hammer coral, a bubble coral, as well as a bunch of zoanthids and polyps. We had to battle the zoanthid eating nudibranches, and some aptasia. Currently we have a small rock anemonie which hitchhiked in as well as some other very tiny anemones which are not 100% pests. The coraline algae has been going nuts as well. I would suppose that monitoring the calcium levels has been working in that regard. I will try to get pictures soon. March 6 2007: Got better pics! This tank is almost year old . Converted to a reef this month. Thanks to the Madison Area Reef Society members who sold us thes new aquacultured animals! Thanks to Michael Clark for taking the beautiful pics!
It is a 75 Gallon AGA. We have approx 92 lbs live rock, 14 types of coarls and mushrooms, as well as 5 types of fish, 4 types of
crabs, soon to be two types of snails, a lettuce nudibranch, a clam and a couple types of starfish.
Green Trumpet and Kenyan Tree
new green mushroom
red zoanthids
mushrooms
purple mushrooms
close up
Green Ricordia
Candy Cane Coral
Brown Capricornus
solo zoa
Green Star Polyp
close up
Sally the Sallylightfoot Crab
Emerald Crab
Emerald Crab acrobatics
Blue Hermit Crab
cool shells
Mellow
not so mellow
couple of the chalk basselets
Swimming!
This is a 69 gallon Oceanic tank with overflow with a 30 gallon sump/refugeum below. Currently there are only two fish, that blue tang, and a fairy wrasse. There is one Kenya Tree and a polyp which is having babies. As well as a clean up crew. To see previous states of the living room tank, click here |
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