Got some new stuff..

[xbambamx]

Well yesterday I finally got some new additions to my tank So here is the new and improved list of critters and stuff:

1)about 50 lbs of LR total
2)about 60lbs of LS
3)new power head
4)sally lightfoot crab
5)emerald crab
6)new horseshoe crab
7)peppermint shrimp
8)scarlet cleaner shrimp
9)new sand sifting star
10)feather duster (also two natural non bought ones)
11)frag of green zoos
12)natural growth of button polyps
13)about 50 nassarius snails
14)about 40 blue leg hermits
FISH

1)Watchman Goby
2)two blue damsels
3)domino damsel
4)yellow damsel

plans
remove all damsels
new lighting
LTA or BTA
maroon clowns

thats it for now pics when i get home from school

 

[Avi]

xbam...I admire your enthusiasm, but you're going so fast that I have to think that you're tempting fate with all those additions at one time. For example, unless that 50-pounds of rock that you are adding to this tank has absolutely no die-off when you put it in your tank, there's bound to be some ammonia spike since there's already some fish in there and you're also adding so much livestock at the same very same time. Even if you get by this time and no losses occur, try to go a little more slowly so that your chances of success are better and there's no gamble involved.

 

[Brandon's Reef]

cant wait to see the picture!

 

[xbambamx]

Uploading the pics now, but just to let yall know, the rock is from an established tank, and i carried it in two seperate coolers filled with water, it was only an house drive.. I also had to battery powered air pump with air stones in each one.

 

[xbambamx]

picturesssss

picturesssss

Now its time for the pictures :

full tank

Watchman Goby

Emerald Crab (he's gigantic)

My store bought frag of zoos

Wild Zoos

Featherduster

Domino Damsel (he's in a lot of pics he's a camera hog )

Yellow Damsel

 

[xbambamx]

One of the blue damsels

New powerhead

New horseshoe crab

Hermit Crabs

New snails

 

[xbambamx]

nothing for anybody to say?! Any opinions? Tips? lol

 

[Broreefr]

Tip - ........Reefkeeping is a Slow deliberate process, may be hard to sustain all those inverts. In a new tank it may be better to wait til a clean up crew is NEEDED then add a little at a time - they starve, they die behind the rocks - ammonia spike, more death well you get the picture, money lost - poisoned tank - mad reefkeeper. Even worse mad EX-reefkeeper, nobody here would want that.

I think before I started my large reeftank I had read about - studied over - and analyzed every tank of the month on this site. Good place to "start" along with some dedicated, published reading by people with those three letters in the front of their names - PHD :bum:

 

[xbambamx]

okay well i will look into the tanks of the month