125 Gallon 8 Month Birthday

[GregM779]

Well it's that time again, the 21st will be 8 months since I put the water in.
Updates on some of the fish I have taken out my dragon wrasse and loaned him to someone until I set up a FOWLR, he decided to kill 5 of my clams, my remaining clams are still alive but are missing their feet.
The flounder is also gone, I believe that my foxface stung him, for what reason I have no idea but I will have another one in my FOWLR down the road. I will post my fish list below, most of the larger ones will be transferred to the FOWLR so please don't flame me, I'm sure not everyone will read this first post so I'll have to repeat myself.
1 Foxface Rabbitfish
3 Chromis
2 True Percula Clowns
1 Gold-Striped Maroon Clown
1 Male Squampinis Anthias
1 Female Squampinis Anthias
1 Flame Angel
1 Sailfin Tang
1 Clown Tang
1 Blonde Naso Tang
1 Chevron Tang
2 Green Mandarins
1 Engineer Goby
1 Niger Trigger

As far as corals go there is too many to list. I was trying to go for a true mixed reef and not be dominant by one type. I think that I have a very good mixture of LPS, SPS, and softies.
Aquascaping is also very important to me and was one of the most time consuming parts of the project.
Let me know what you guys think.

Full Tank Shot

Left Side

Center

Right Side

 

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[GregM779]

OK let's start with LPS

Blastos, Acans, and a Lobo

Here's some Blastos

Blue

Lime Green

Red/Green

 

[GregM779]

Red Blastos

Bubble Coral

2 Types of Frogspawn

Purple/Green Brain

Rainbow Brain

 

[GregM779]

Purple Brain

Orange Plate

 

[GregM779]

Here's a couple of my clams, it's amazing how different they look from the top.

My Orange Scolymia

2 Scolymias

 

[GregM779]

How about some SPS now
First a blue-tipped acro

These two pieces are highlighter yellow

Here's a green gem acro

 

[GregM779]

Here's a few softies,

First my Yellow leather, definitely one of my favorites.

Green Ricordia

These 2 Ricordia rocks were started with one ric of each color.

 

[GregM779]

Some Zoas and Rics

I'll do some more pics in a minute when my Gallery let's me

 

[kase]

wow....kool tank.love all you fish but lil too much for the tank?let me know if you going let some that nice corals go....lol..love the tank

 

[GregM779]

Here's my 2" baby clown tang with my pair of true perculas, just 3 clowns hangin around

Here's the perculas without the flash by the torch they're hosting

One of my Green Mandarins

Here's a couple pics of the fish eating nori

 

[GregM779]

Here's a couple of pics of my feather star, I know someone who has had success with these and I'm going to try it, I defintely do not reccomend anyone go out and get one of these.

 

[bonesnreb]

all i have to say is awsome..wish my tank looked like yours

 

[gus1225]

I'm soooo jealus. I love your yellow leather. They are my favorite.

 

[kevinrs]

that is soooo nice. great job with the tank.

 

[sean48183]

She is a real beauty. I was wondering if you went throught any problems like cyno, hair algae ,ich etc. to get to that masterpeice. My tank looks like crap and I was wondering if there is any hope for me or is it a lost cause.

 

[Micki]

How long have you had your feather star? and where did you get it? I love it!

 

[Nuhtty]

Great looking tank. Lot of fish, lot of corals but it doesnt have the overcrowded look that I have seen with many tanks. Good job!

 

[GregM779]

Thanks a lot guys for the comments, I tried to make the rockwork and coral placement as natural as possible, although you'll never find these different types of corals in the same ocean, you know what I mean.

Sean48183, This tank was actually not so bad, but I did have obstacles like algae, cyano almost every tank has in the beginning but can usually take care of itself. On this tank I run a 25 watt UV sterilizer so fish illness really isn't an issue other than the 2 previous flame angel I lost to cyanide.
In this hobby there are many learning stages, I guess we call this experience where everything just seems to go wrong. In my previous 55g after setting it all up my last fish introduced had brokklynella, killing all 7 of my fish and not letting me add fish for 7 weeks. I almost gave up the hobby, I'm glad that I didn't and I know that there are times where you just want to say screw it but that's why there are forums like this that will help you fix your problems and help you prevent them from happening again.

Micki, I picked it up last week, they've had green ones there for a little while but I wanted something special and I think I found it. That star is blood red and just gorgeous. They are a pain having to feed them often and with different food than the fish so we'll see if it's worth it or not.

Nuhtty, I have a lot of fish and corals but like you said it doesn't look like a LFS sale tank on shipment day. What's great about the tank is whenever you look at the tank you notice something different even if it's been there because there is just so much to lool at. As far as the fish I have no aggression issues not even with the clowns and it's really cool to watch the fish play and share nori together.

 

[Micki]

Micki, I picked it up last week, they've had green ones there for a little while but I wanted something special and I think I found it. That star is blood red and just gorgeous. They are a pain having to feed them often and with different food than the fish so we'll see if it's worth it or not.

What does it eat?