800 gallon classroom build

[jnarowe]

Looking good Ace! Glad they all made it fine. I just wish I could have sent more!

 

[conorwynne]

Excellent project, I'm deffo going to follow this till the end of the year.
Maybe you could post the student tank winner on this thread?

Regards
Conor.

 

[hobogato]

ill be featuring a new student tank every week once they are fully stocked.

 

[derrikd]

Wow thats really neat

 

[ade]

Fish I.D

Fish I.D

I love what you are doing and hope your students get a lot out of your class. Just wanted to let you know that the trigger that you called a Picasso Humuhumu is in fact a Picasso Assasi or Arabian Trigger. Great trigger and pics. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Ade

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10745667#post10745667 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hobogato
the skimmer is finally producing some nice green/black gunk now that there is a little bit of a bioload on the system

the 135 display (realized i had the size wrong before) now has a panther grouper, volitans lion, huma (picasso) trigger, and a wolf eel as well as a few frags of coral

the next step is for the students to research possible inhabitant, make compatibility charts and then we will be stocking the tanks. we will partially stock all of the tanks around the beginning of october and finish stocking around the beginning of november.

 

[hobogato]

Re: Fish I.D

Re: Fish I.D

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10867893#post10867893 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ade
I love what you are doing and hope your students get a lot out of your class. Just wanted to let you know that the trigger that you called a Picasso Humuhumu is in fact a Picasso Assasi or Arabian Trigger. Great trigger and pics. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Ade

good to know, i had changed my ID to Bursa trigger, but that didnt seem quite right either.

 

[kodyboy]

nope, that is actually a bursa trigger not an Assasi trigger but the genus can be a pain to correctly identify
http://www.grizzlyrun.com/Pets/Fish/Saltwater_Fish/Bursa_Triggerfish/Default.htm
http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_1...ategory=4&category_search=61&root_parent_id=4

 

[hobogato]

got in a shipment of donated snails, stomatella, limpets, and a shrimp from jonathan (jnarowe). all of them made it thru acclimation and into the tanks it was enough snails for 12 of the 27 student tanks thanks again for the donation!

the package

just before letting them out of the bags to acclimate

dripping our tank water in (for 3 hours)

the unknown shrimp - gonna be a good ID contest for the students (if you know the id, you can pm it to me but please dont post it)

couple of close-ups of some more donations in the 135 gallon tank - thanks Sherri!

 

[buttons buster]

Have the students started stocking their tanks?

 

[hobogato]

we are planning on ordering friday for delivery on tuesday.

 

[GSMguy]

i just saw this for the first time. i wish had a teacher as cool as you in high school.

 

[buttons buster]

Did you place an order today?

If so,
What was included?

 

[hobogato]

going thru a LFS, and he has the list for the order. he will be ordering 75 fish on monday for tuesday delivery. they include some common fish as well as some unusual ones. more details on tuesday

 

[gary faulkner]

hobogato

Will you add all 75 at once?
Any option to QT?

TIA

 

[hobogato]

yep, amounts to about one fish per 10 gallons, so it should be fine. the fish are all small fish as well. no qt setup, my classroom isnt big enough

 

[pmjfuture]

This is a awesome thread. Thanks for posting .

 

[buttons buster]

Did the fish come in today?

 

[hobogato]

we got our first order of fish for the student tanks today. huge thanks to jason at aquarium designs for working so hard with me to get them here. we added 35 fish to the student tanks today. hopefully we will add about 40 more in the next week, and then about 60 more in the following month. this will bring the total in each tank to 4 to 6 fish.

forgot to take pics while the bags were floating, but i remembered to start taking pics before we cleaned up.

here is the pile of empty bags - out of all the fish ordered, we only lost 2 in shipping and acclimating.

this order included some damsels, cardinals, tiny blue tangs, a few bicolor pseudochromis, a couple of longnose hawks, some oscillaris clowns (i think they sent a couple of true percs by mistake), a couple of tomato clowns, a cinnamon clown, a neon blue goby, a yellow clown goby, a friedmani basslet, a sixline wrasse, a small yellow tang, a red fromia and a skunk cleaner.

here are a few of the fish - most of them were too bashful to come out so soon

 

[fefo23]

Looking realy good

 

[jnarowe]

very cool Ace.