High bioload, succesful SPS reefs, any one else?

[jjjimmy]

It seems as though the trend is to keep a very low bioload in SPS dominant tanks these days. Is any one else going against the grain and keeping a high bioload?

mine...

180 SPS dominant reef.

1 - Sohol tang
1 - RS sailfin tang
1 - Purple tang
1 - Sixline wrasse
1 - Yellow Coris wrasse
1 - Copperband Butterfly
2 - Black Saddleback clownfish
2 - Dispar Anthias
4 - Bartlett Anthias

So, let's have it, who has them and lets see them.

 

[Kip]

~200g

regal tang
tennenti tang
desj sailfin
scribbled rabbit
fem sq pink anthias
2 fem squam anthias
1 male squam anthias
3 pur firefish
2 oscellaris
1 solarensis fairy wrasse

in my opinion i have been pretty successful... but i also have about 450g of total system volume which i feel is very important.

i'll try to get an updated pic tonite

 

[dvanacker]

WOW...that is a HUGE carpet anemone.!!

 

[jjjimmy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6601295#post6601295 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dvanacker
WOW...that is a HUGE carpet anemone.!!

Why, thank you. It has grown a bit since that pic was taken. It is about 18" in diameter now.

 

[SPStoner]

120 cube (36x36x24) SPS dominated

1 Red Sea Sailfin
1 True Perc
1 Yellow Candy Hog
1 Hoevan's Wrasse
1 6line Wrasse
1 Cook Islands Scott's Fairy Wrasse
1 Filemented Flasher Wrasse
1 Banded Possum Wrasse
1 Niger Trigger
1 Citron Goby
1 Banded Possum Wrasse
1 Flame Hawk
1 Blue Damsel


Scott's Wrasse

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[DarkXerox]

any problems with the carpet eating other fish?

 

[jjjimmy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6602253#post6602253 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DarkXerox
any problems with the carpet eating other fish?

Not for a while now but in the past it made meals of about a half dozen different fish.

 

[fishgeeksrus]

Regal Angel
Chevron tang
foxface
2 purple firefish
raifordi goby
yellow watchman goby
bartlet anthias
six line wrasse
yellow chrysis wrasse (sp)
spotted manderin
royal gramma
clown goby (green)

adding 2 4-wheel drive gobies
possibly a yasa goby/shrimp combo
wanting a radiant wrasse

all this in a 40gal cube!



























Just kidding!!! they reside in our 180g inwall

 

[cubuffs]

Here is my 180 stock list:

5 chromis
4 disbar anthias
1 yellow tang
1 hippo tang
1 labouti wrasse
1 mandarin goby
1 yellow coris wrasse

 

[undertai]

55 Gallon SPS Tank
3 Blue Green Chromis
1 Ornate Wrasse
Mated Pair Clarkii clowns
pink spotted goby
1 percula clown
1 damsel -->trying to get out
1 drwarf lionfish

 

[REEF-DADDY]

5" powder blue tang
6 " fat foxface
2" Chevron
4" Yellow tang
3"purple tang
2 1"chromis
3" false cleaner wrasse
2.5" flame angel
4" box anthias

These are in a 280 display with a 125 sump. The tank is 2 months old and is running about 10 ppm nitrates. I think once its seasoned it will get down to 0. Most of the crew

 

[Orochimaru]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6604059#post6604059 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SteveDohoney
5" powder blue tang
6 " fat foxface

nice rocks-work, can I see a full tank shot? Thanks!

 

[gotfish8]

sohal
regal
yellow
naso
4 clowns
2 lawn mowers
2 panda gobies
3 chromis
3 anthias
dragonet
choris wrasse
yellow head goby
all in a 225

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

steve....full tank shot?

 

[fishgeeksrus]

here is a pic of ours too...

 

[REEF-DADDY]

full room

A few excuses:
I had a heater malfunction that browned out/killed alot of corals. I also lost some corals to excessive photo period when I went BB. I still need to paint the back!

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

what lighting are you using that your able to have that Mont. Cap.
on the bottom?

did you get a controller for those heaters?

 

[REEF-DADDY]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6604867#post6604867 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by E-A-G-L-E-S
what lighting are you using that your able to have that Mont. Cap.
on the bottom?

did you get a controller for those heaters?

xm 250w 10k's only on for 4 hours per day under the center brace with a piece of plexi on it. If I bump it to 5 hours it bleaches. I feel like I could keep that coral in the dark. In the 125 DSB was was on the bottom but with a 8 hour photo period, do figure.

The controller was the issue, the old tank was 12" from the new one. When I built the stand I yanked out the probe.

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

ouch!

i've heard this alot lately with BB's

with only 4 hours do your other corals get enough light too?

what do you mean by " 4 hours a day under the center brace"?

 

[Gobie]

I have a 180 that has had this fish
list in it for over three years. Some
of the fish I have had over five years.
Just running a refugium no skimmer
or anything else. 15 to 20 gallon water
changes every three to four months.
I have a mixed reef with acroporas and
other sps, lps, leathers and clams,
corals are all doing great.
2 clowns
1 blond naso
1 hippo tang
1 yellow tang
3 purple tangs
1 blue throat trigger
1 coral beauty
1 fox face
1 six line wrasse
1 Bicolor Pseudochromis
1 Royal Gramma
1 canary goby
1 yellow tail damsel
4 cleaner neon gobies