Looking forward to it. I bet cleaning the glass on that tank is crazy!
FlameAngel group.
- Thread starter Jaken
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So you had EIGHT zebrasoma's in an 100G? Wow, what a great, responsible reefkeeper you are.....
Try 10. 6 yellow and 4 purple.
Not my personal stocking choice, but I have seen worse.:eek1:
stunreefer
Reef Hugger
Lamboboy- do you have a tank thread anywhere? Would love to see more on your display... also interested in how you clean the glass!
flameangel88
New member
Very nice looking tank and your FA trio will be a great addition.
LamboBoy
New member
No. I do not. What would you like to see? It's very hard to take good pics from up close because the tank is curved.
I keep my Solaris on pretty low power, under 25% and only from 12-6pm then from 6-9pm, only actinic blue's. Let me tell you, at 100%, the lights are super bright, too bright to even look at it.
I clean my glass with a Mighty Magnet with a Magic Eraser cut in half thick wise and it works like a charm. I've not seen any algae on any acrylic surface yet and that's because I clean my glass once a week no matter what.
I have 2 filtration system hooked up to it, a refugium with a separate sump and a closed looped system that is hooked up to a big canister filter from Aquanetics, running 3000 gph thru it. I clean that once a week so it doesn't become a nitrate factory. Plus I do a 60 gallon water change every 10 days
Almost the whole bottom of the tank is filled with LR since the middle is not real, very little crushed coral as substrate. It was super hard to set up the rocks since I had to use a 36" grip thing plus I could barely see what I was doing from the top. On top of that, I had to be really careful so I wouldn't scratch the tank with the rocks.
To clean the tank, I first blow a strong water jet (made it with a water pump hooked up to some hoses and a acrylic tube) on the rocks and nooks and crannies then I vacuum the tank with a 36" acrylic tube hooked to a hose.
Once I fill two 30 gallon garbage cans, I stop.
I think have everything set up pretty good, very easy to do water change.
BTW, the tank's circumference was so wide that we had to cut the doors off to get the tank in the house and once in, we had to cut the floor open and use a casket lowering device from a cemetery, to lower the tank and stand into the basement. In the middle of freaking winter no less!!
flameangel88
New member
I would say the one in the first pic is not fully transitioned to a male yet but I could be wrong.
Here's a pic of my male
Here's a pic of my male
LamboBoy
New member
Here is a video of my tank with the Flame Angels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6GXEoMQp1w
The harem came in on Thursday 5/6 with a huge Emperor Angelfish. He was supposed to be 4-4.5" but it showed up a around 6-7". They are all getting along great as you will see in the video.
So far they are all eating but the Emperor will only eat pellets (Ocean formula 1-2 and New Spectrum). I've tried every frozen food so far to no avail, I hope he comes around. Is it ok for him to just eat pellets for now?
extreme5450
Member
keep pumping him full of the new spectrum pellets. It dosn't get much better then him eating only new spectrum. I feed it exclusivly to my angels , they just love them and they grow fast and healthy
LamboBoy
New member
That's good news. I'll do that, thanks.
sonofstarstamps
New member
Just started my harem.
Added 3 specimens to my established flame angel which had been in the tank 2.5 years. Tried to pick 3 females out of 12 fish that were in stock at the LFS.
All getting along very well, tok about 3 hours to settle into a group.
Will be looking at purchasing more live rock to make more nooks and crannies in the near future and then will add a further 6-8 specimens if i can source them all at once.
All fish already eating very well, was surprised how easy they took to all food including NLS pellets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S84cvQdd-g4
Added 3 specimens to my established flame angel which had been in the tank 2.5 years. Tried to pick 3 females out of 12 fish that were in stock at the LFS.
All getting along very well, tok about 3 hours to settle into a group.
Will be looking at purchasing more live rock to make more nooks and crannies in the near future and then will add a further 6-8 specimens if i can source them all at once.
All fish already eating very well, was surprised how easy they took to all food including NLS pellets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S84cvQdd-g4
urbanrat84
New member
Bump - we need the endings to all the stories!! For posterity!
