After a ton of thought and 'discussion' with my wife, I have finally
made a decision. Rather than start a new SH tank from scratch, I am going to convert my 4 year old 92 gallon corner reef. Unfortunately, I am not near as handy as many of you.
So....I'm going to need some help.
First, here are some pictures of what we will be working with:
Will add more pics as I progress
The Plan, and some questions:
1-Find good homes for all the fish. Can I keep any of these guys:
Flame hawk, blue pacific tang, dragon Blenny, maroon clown?
2-Inverts- keep all? fire red shrimp, cleaner shrimp
Snails- Nasarrius, cerith, turbos,
crabs- scarlets, red legs, sally light foot,
starfish- large black brittle star, green banded star
3-Corals,
Keep? - Large finger (?) leather, feather dusters, coco worm,
candy coral, brains, mushrooms,
Remove- BT Anenomies, frog spawns, Rock Anenomie, bubble
coral.
4-Sump : Skimmer is a classic Berlin (Keep?)
25w uv light (you can see it behind the sump)
Current Pump- The Quiet One (rated about 900 gph
Note there is an orange shutoff valve above the pump. Can I just 'dial' back the flow??
What other flow will I need?
5-Lights- Now there is one Lunar aqualight 36" with 2x96 watts PC
bulbs (1 is actinic & 1 is 10k daylight)
Behind that is another aqualight 24" 130 watt
So there is a total of 322 watts light.
What needs to change here??
6-Temperature is a problem. tank now runs at 78ish. needs to come
down. Maybe if I raise the lights higher and remove the
glass cover?
PHASE 2
7- Re-Aquascape- more pics when coral is gone. add colorful artificial coral
8-pick horses (how many, types) , pipes, vendors etc.
OK- what have i forgotten?? what do you all think of the plan.
Please help me.
this is gonna be great!
Thank you, thank you.
Ed
made a decision. Rather than start a new SH tank from scratch, I am going to convert my 4 year old 92 gallon corner reef. Unfortunately, I am not near as handy as many of you.
So....I'm going to need some help.
First, here are some pictures of what we will be working with:



Will add more pics as I progress
The Plan, and some questions:
1-Find good homes for all the fish. Can I keep any of these guys:
Flame hawk, blue pacific tang, dragon Blenny, maroon clown?
2-Inverts- keep all? fire red shrimp, cleaner shrimp
Snails- Nasarrius, cerith, turbos,
crabs- scarlets, red legs, sally light foot,
starfish- large black brittle star, green banded star
3-Corals,
Keep? - Large finger (?) leather, feather dusters, coco worm,
candy coral, brains, mushrooms,
Remove- BT Anenomies, frog spawns, Rock Anenomie, bubble
coral.
4-Sump : Skimmer is a classic Berlin (Keep?)
25w uv light (you can see it behind the sump)
Current Pump- The Quiet One (rated about 900 gph
Note there is an orange shutoff valve above the pump. Can I just 'dial' back the flow??
What other flow will I need?
5-Lights- Now there is one Lunar aqualight 36" with 2x96 watts PC
bulbs (1 is actinic & 1 is 10k daylight)
Behind that is another aqualight 24" 130 watt
So there is a total of 322 watts light.
What needs to change here??
6-Temperature is a problem. tank now runs at 78ish. needs to come
down. Maybe if I raise the lights higher and remove the
glass cover?
PHASE 2
7- Re-Aquascape- more pics when coral is gone. add colorful artificial coral
8-pick horses (how many, types) , pipes, vendors etc.
OK- what have i forgotten?? what do you all think of the plan.
Please help me.
this is gonna be great!
Thank you, thank you.
Ed