150G Rimless Macroalgae Tank

[Kataro]

So I figure I would start a new thread for my new tank, it's still a work in progress. Still have some big colony that's pending pick up so it's a little messy right now.:twitch:

Goal is to have variety of small gobies / inverts swimming about in the tank covered with seagrass / other macroalgae and gorgonian

Livestock

- 15 Green Chromis
- 5 Blue Eye Cardinal
- 2 Springer Damsel
- 2 ORA Tiger Goby
- 1 Firefish
- 20 Trimma / Eviota Goby (Will be identified soon)

Right side FTS (Left side is full of corals at the moment)

Dragonbreath

Ochtode

Violet Dream

Red Grape (Botryocladia)

Red Leaf

 

[Kataro]

Dragonface pair

Blue Maxi-Mini

Pom-Pom Crab

My Gobies (VERY SMALL)

 

[rafajara1985]

nice I cant wait to see what it turn out like

 

[DrBegalke]

Looks great so far. Excellent photography too.

 

[Kataro]

Got these from Pet Inc last night, I think ID are pretty accurate. Hoping to get more in the future
5 - Eviota bifasciata
4 - Eviota Pellucida
1 - Trimma Benjamini
2 - Trimma Tevagae
2- Trimma rubromaculatus
1 - Trimma Striata
2 - Mini Dart fish (no ID)
2 - Golden Trimma
1 - Red Trimma (Trimma caesiura?)

 

[lucidvtec]

Nice!!!!!

In the future if u frag that macro Lmk ...I had brought some back from cali but it didn't make it...turns out my iron was way to low

 

[Kataro]

which macro are you referring to Lucid? I need to find some places to get more crazy macroalgae

 

[Garage1217]

Looks really cool!

 

[chrischin29g]

Where's all the cool bryopsis at??

Looking good tho those dragon faces are really nice

 

[robot2222]

where to find macro alge

where to find macro alge

which macro are you referring to Lucid? I need to find some places to get more crazy macroalgae

have you looked at reefcleaners .org

 

[Kataro]

Thank you all ! I'm hoping to get some more pipefish in here, maybe a pair of seahorse in the future, just have to learn about them.

I looked at reefcleaners, sadly there's not much macro this time of the year. Waiting til spring then I can order some really cool ones!

My gobies are impossible to photograph, and I'm kinda skeptical I will even see the two miniature dart fish I bought. Saw one yesterday floating around... but it's about 3/4" and diameter of a toothpick. Coolest thing so far is when I feed, a bunch of gobies dart in and out to eat.

 

[Kataro]

Some pictures from last night.. It seem out of the 19 gobies I got from Pet Inc, 18 are alive and well, though they hide alot and the missing one is INCREDIBLY small. I want more nano gobies in this tank!

ORA Tiger Goby (gobiosoma macrodon)

Eviota pellucida

Trimma Striata

Trimma Rubromaculatus

Eviota Bifasciata

Porcelain Crab

 

[Kataro]

Just picked up this anemone shrimp! Have a bunch of stuff coming this week, should be fun

 

[NaClH20NMYVEIN]

Your not worried about those tiny fish and the mini maxi anemone? I lost a few small gobies to mine a few years back.

 

[Kataro]

I'm not too worry, I find the gobies keep to the rocks mostly and never stray far. I keep the maxi on the ground on the other side of the tank. We'll see how it goes, if I see missing gobies, I will remove the maxi to my fuge and grow them there. I want alot of maxi because I have about 10 anemone shrimps + 10 sexy shrimps coming to host them.

 

[frctlimg]

Nice! :thumbsup:

 

[deehz]

System looks great! Cant wait to see the finished system. I'm turning my poco into a macro/NPS system
(sun polyps, dendros, gorgs). I have some macros already and am really liking them. Bad part, my halimeda just went sexual and blew up the system! It was a fairly large colony and I was getting ready to prun it and bam! Just in a flash the system goes from doing great to a complete disaster.

Moral of the story, be careful with the calciferous family of macros (Chlorophyta, Bryopsidales). Im sure you have done your reading and research on these beautiful alga's. But when they say they can go sexual and wreak havoc on a system, it's no joke.

 

[drolic]

Kataro, I just put two and two together here... your building a macro algae tank and I have some in my sump that's not doing much for me. I identified it as "neomeris annulata" via some google-fu after it showed up as a hitchhiker when the tank was new. Since then it has grown into a real colony on this one piece of rubble I have. Is it something your interested in for your re-build? Image of it in my sump, look lower right.

 

[Kataro]

I am going to try and avoid those species that are likely to go asexual, and strict observation on each macroalgae each day.

Hey Drolic, I am definitely interested in those. I'll send you a PM

 

[Kataro]

I'm thinking of switching my MH to LED again. I was thinking the radion, but since I'm just growing algae.. seem kind of a waste.

So I'm looking at AI Sol, maybe 3 of them over my tank which hopefully will give enough coverage / light. I haven't look at the sol in a while, any of you folks that uses it, how do you like it?