Dream Tank with lots of fishes...

[luamada]

I decided to start this thread to keep an upt-o-date on the my fishes and their care and concerns...
A little feedback:
I always dreamed of a big fish tank so I decided to start with a list.. How many fishes I wanted to have and then decided on the side of the tank. It came up to 350G plus 100G sump with a refugium etc...
To have those fishes I needed to have the quarantine tanks... so I started with this 55 tank... cycled it and started to add my fishes... ADDED in the following order:
6 CARDINALS
2 BLACK AND WHITE SNOWFLAKES CLOWNS
7 GREEN CHROMES
7 BLUE CHROMES
1 SIX LINES WRASSE (that I had on another tank)
ALSO have on this tank:
2 cleaner shrimps
1 red shrimp
2 anemonies (green and purple tip)
snails, crabs,
CORALS... zoas, green and purple hammers, dandrophylia, etc...

 

[luamada]

To this

 

[luamada]

Then after this quarantine tank, I started another quarantine for the more sensitive fishes... in case I need to give them some medication (as the rocks would make it difficult to give them medications). Anyways... I started a 90 gallons, with the sump filtration, and a good system. Installing the skimmer on it today (rated for 250 G one).

 

[luamada]

DAY 2 of the 90 Gallons fishes... (tank has been cycling for 3 months). We added these fishes there two days ago:
5 yellow Tangs fishes
3 blue Royal Tangs fishes
1 Naso Tang
2 Orange Snow Flakes Clowns
2 Purple Fire fishes

 

[luamada]

TODAY they learned to eat the algae from the clip... yeayy... so happy. I know that most people will say that it is crazy. I have been researching this for a long time and I saw that some people were successful keeping some higher number of tangs... I am praying that I will be one of them... I am really scared but hopeful. I LOVE TANGS...

 

[luamada]

I am also keeping the temperature a little higher than on my other tanks.. this one I am keeping about 79 to 80 until they are older and stronger. I had pipes in there but I removed the pipes and they were more scared of the pipes than anything also (turning white), now they are all yellow and the Naso lost the white spots (scared). I have a LED light and the water is:
AMONIA 0
NITRITE 0
NITRATE 2 (NOT 20)
PH 8.1
ALK 9
CALCIUM 375 - a little too low so will do a water change to try to get to 0 nitrate) and test calcium again but it does not matter much for fishes (from what I have red)
MG - 1440
PHOSPHATE - 0.16 (I may add a phosphate reactor if this does not go done with water changes)
I am adding 3 purple tangs (babies) so they grow together to avoid aggression... then I add the other ones that I want but they require a tank with sand and cycled... I am working on my tank now to cycle it... I think it will take 3 to four month before I can add any fishes to it... but I want to add most of the fishes together to avoid them fighting..

 

[Monkeyfish]

Beautiful aquarium and stand. What are the dimensions?

 

[luamada]

Here is the build of it...;-)
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2434773&referrerid=186083

 

[Dmorty217]

Beautiful what will be your DT. Like the direction you are heading with all the tangs... When my 625g is up and running it will be a angel/tang tank only... Well and my Quoyi and pyramids

 

[luamada]

Oh waw 625G are you starting it? Do you have a thread here? I love the aquilis... in your picture. I want to have an aquillis added to my list... but still reading about them..

 

[Fish Biscuit]

Wow, the tank & stand are gorgeous!! That is going to be sweet when it's set up & all the fishies are in.

 

[Dmorty217]

Oh waw 625G are you starting it? Do you have a thread here? I love the aquilis... in your picture. I want to have an aquillis added to my list... but still reading about them..

No thread yet, I have to move to be able to set it up long term. It will be awesome. 7ftx6ftx2ft... It sounds big and then you see it in person and it brings a whole new perspective.

 

[luamada]

More addition to the quarantine tank so we can get ready for the display tank... so happy with the water quality on my 55 G and on my 90G... moving along...

 

[luamada]

 

[luamada]

 

[ca1ore]

That's an awful lot of fish to add to even a cycled tank all at once. First rule of aquariums is nothing good comes from rushing.