House got cratered by Harvey's managed only a 4ft cut out in most of the House, and we're finally, despite the "fine gentleman"( read pos) that is dragging his feet on repairs, pretty much done with the major stuff besides the kitchen.
The opportunity presented itself to pick up a 36" 75gallon acrylic tank in excellent shape. It came with a nice skimmer, return, sump, lighting....it had been a functional tank, along side others.
What I didn't really anticipate was ending up with a large amount of livestock. A 20long PACKED with frags and larger colonies, 4 percula clowns, two decent sized yellow tangs, and a smattering of damsels (4 lyre tails and a b/g). The fish I can handle, the coral...... I've had three fowlr tanks over the last decade, coral is new to me.
Hardware wise I'm running a mar aqua led fixture until the two much more powerful units I purchased are available. I will be supplementing that with 4 t5 bulbs in 36" fixtures. I will have a BRS and GFO reactor, as well as a nextreef smr1 bio pellet reactor. I have a coral box d700 arriving this week to replace the d500 that HAD an...unfortunate mishap rendering it spare parts.
Please, PLEASE before we go any farther, do not lecture me about the yellows in a 3ft tank. Given they had been consigned to a 20 tall for a month and a half, I have at least upgraded their living condition, and will keep them fed and happy as I can until I find them a good home in a bigger tank.
Now, if you made it this far...... I'm not sure all these corals are even compatible, nor what some of them are. I believe the top corals are considered "sps", the right most is a very attractive blue in it's upper third. The middle and left honestly look like fuzzy sticks at this point. The large torch looking corals are, I think LPS corals called candy canes, and the green coral that looks like a broccoli head is a "danny" from Australia, correct? Also Lps.
There is a purple coral on the rock with the zoo polyps that looks like a purple tumor with small tentacles I have no idea what to call, and there is a small rock, bottom left, with a white and green soft coral on it. No idea what these are.
I also have a whole drag rack crammed FULL of various drags, some I can ID, some I cannot. I will try to get a pic tomorrow, that tank is in an awkward place to photograph.
Are these corals compatible enough to make it? I know the SPS is demanding on water conditions, and the softies can cause issues with at least the SPS, possibly the LPS. Is my placement decent?
Thank you for any constructive help. I may be looking to give away or sell some corals at some point in the near future I have far to much for the space I have.
Thanks, kyndal
The opportunity presented itself to pick up a 36" 75gallon acrylic tank in excellent shape. It came with a nice skimmer, return, sump, lighting....it had been a functional tank, along side others.
What I didn't really anticipate was ending up with a large amount of livestock. A 20long PACKED with frags and larger colonies, 4 percula clowns, two decent sized yellow tangs, and a smattering of damsels (4 lyre tails and a b/g). The fish I can handle, the coral...... I've had three fowlr tanks over the last decade, coral is new to me.
Hardware wise I'm running a mar aqua led fixture until the two much more powerful units I purchased are available. I will be supplementing that with 4 t5 bulbs in 36" fixtures. I will have a BRS and GFO reactor, as well as a nextreef smr1 bio pellet reactor. I have a coral box d700 arriving this week to replace the d500 that HAD an...unfortunate mishap rendering it spare parts.
Please, PLEASE before we go any farther, do not lecture me about the yellows in a 3ft tank. Given they had been consigned to a 20 tall for a month and a half, I have at least upgraded their living condition, and will keep them fed and happy as I can until I find them a good home in a bigger tank.
Now, if you made it this far...... I'm not sure all these corals are even compatible, nor what some of them are. I believe the top corals are considered "sps", the right most is a very attractive blue in it's upper third. The middle and left honestly look like fuzzy sticks at this point. The large torch looking corals are, I think LPS corals called candy canes, and the green coral that looks like a broccoli head is a "danny" from Australia, correct? Also Lps.
There is a purple coral on the rock with the zoo polyps that looks like a purple tumor with small tentacles I have no idea what to call, and there is a small rock, bottom left, with a white and green soft coral on it. No idea what these are.
I also have a whole drag rack crammed FULL of various drags, some I can ID, some I cannot. I will try to get a pic tomorrow, that tank is in an awkward place to photograph.
Are these corals compatible enough to make it? I know the SPS is demanding on water conditions, and the softies can cause issues with at least the SPS, possibly the LPS. Is my placement decent?
Thank you for any constructive help. I may be looking to give away or sell some corals at some point in the near future I have far to much for the space I have.
Thanks, kyndal
