280 gallon tank thread....

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10494443#post10494443 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by beaupierce
Looks like it is coming together for you. Wanted to see now that you have had some time to think about it what kind of corals you are going to start with.............
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Not really sure.. With corals i feel like a noob all over again.
 
What up man! Hey, nice setup. Loving the rockwork, really cool. The pictures you took are pretty good too. I still have much to learn sensai...
 
As far as corals go start with your lower light corals. Go for mushrooms, leather, maybe even some zoos. You have a ton of room so go with a few bigger pieces to start it off.
Also check on craigslist, you can some times find some great deals from people looking to sell/ trade their stuff.
When the time gets ready a huge Rose Anem. will look great and your clowns will love you! Cheers
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10665443#post10665443 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jeeperpunk511
What up man! Hey, nice setup. Loving the rockwork, really cool. The pictures you took are pretty good too. I still have much to learn sensai...

Read read read...And get your tank up and running so we can see it!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10665496#post10665496 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by beaupierce
As far as corals go start with your lower light corals. Go for mushrooms, leather, maybe even some zoos. You have a ton of room so go with a few bigger pieces to start it off.
Also check on craigslist, you can some times find some great deals from people looking to sell/ trade their stuff.
When the time gets ready a huge Rose Anem. will look great and your clowns will love you! Cheers

I thought about starting off with some zoos but think my angel might make quick work of them might just try my luck with sps. I thought about getting a rose anemone but don't want it moving around alot harming my corals i put in.
 
So yesterday i finally added the vortech pump and i love. It really moves some water and has kept the right side of my tank sand super clean. That now leaves me with mag 18 return two tunze 6100 pumps and a vortech. I want to start adding corals soon mainly some sps. I also want to add an achilles tang and i know the love flow! Should i add more flow? I was thinking on adding a maxi jet 1200 with the sure flow 1600 kit for the left side hoping that will be enough to keep that sand clean and add enough flow i need.. Any thoughts?

P.S
I know i need to stop being lazy and update some more!
 
If you want to try some corals to see what works with your fish but don't want to risk losing some money, LMK. I can give you some frags, some of them are quite nice but I'll pass them along to you since they were mainly broken during my aquaspacing. :)
 
More pictures to come soon! Thanks for the offer gabe3d i will have to look into that. I feel bad getting things for free. So is the flow enough guys? I was also thinking of just adding a a tunze nano 6045 for just 25 dollars more but with less flow...
 
Here are the pictures
Left Side of the Tank:
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Right Side of the Tank:
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The Cave that the big brick provides:
Clown
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Shrimp
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Well some updates: A little over a week ago i lost one of my female anthias. It wasent really eating and seem to be the weak link of the bunch but still looked in good shape until one day it looked really bad and died that night. The rest of fish are doing very well and growing large. I didn't really notice until i recently introduce some new fish in the range of 2-3.5 inches.

I've added a purple and yellow tang. A powder blue tang and a green mandarin. The purple i got from a lfs and the rest my first time trying reefhotspot.com. The powder blue looks in bad shape but it is eating so hopefully with a strong diet of greens and foods soaked in selcon and garlic extreme i can help it. I was suppose to receive and achilles tang as well but it wasen't ready so soon i expect one.

Pictures will be here later this weekend or early next week once the fish settle in.
 
Well it has been forever since i have last updated my thread. Here are few shots for now will have more later this week camera is dead right now.

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Sorry guys been away from the hobby for like two months handling some personal stuff.. Im finally getting back into though. Finally getting caught up on my water changes now i need to some cleaning with my pumps and get me a new skimmer. Took alot pictures so enjoy!

FTS
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Moorish Idol
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Male Anthias
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Achilles Tang & Blue Tang
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Clowns
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Purple Tang & Mandarin
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Yellow & Purple Tang
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Emp Angel
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Powder Blue Tang
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Gold Rim Tang ( trying to get a new home )
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Group Shots
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