Introduction and a bunch of pics

[teamreefers]

Hi MTRC members,

My name is Jack. My wife, Kathy, and I have been lurking in these forums for awhile and I figured it was about time
we formally introduce ourselves. We will be joining the club shortly however, we will not attend many meetings since
we live so far away. We live in Lawrenceburg which is about 25 miles south of Columbia.

We have all LPS and softies now but will be getting into SPS as soon as our tank matures a little more.
It has been running since about March.

Our main tank is a 200g 48x32x30". We have one 400W and two 175W halides with PC actinic. We run an AquaC EV240 skimmer in a 30G sump.
Here are some lousy pics.

Main tank

End view

Duncan Colony

Superman Mushrooms and Blastomussa Wellsi

A glowing orange ricordia. Never seen one before but this looks like its translucent with irredisant orange tips.
The picture doesn't do it justice.

Here are a pair of False perculas we have been trying to get to breed.

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[teamreefers]

Here's our most recent addition. It's a yellow belly blue hippo. It is in a hypo tank right now since it can with some ick.
Can you say hippo in hypo three times real fast?

She's a little camera shy. As soon as she see us, she tries to hide.

Bicolor blenny (Blenny man)

Here's our 55G frag tank. The yellow tang has been exiled here after harassing our clowns. He didn't go willingly.
Had to use a fishing pole and hook to catch him.

Last is a bunch of baby shrimp of some kind. Hoping someone could ID them. We have a pair of cleaners.
Could they be cleaner babies or brine? There are hundreds of them. Ignore the aiptasia.
It's not really there. Just an optical illusion.

 

[fishdoc11]

Nice tanks
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Chris

 

[fallinapart]

Welcome to the MTRC, I am pretty new myself, including new to SW. But your pictures are just great, thanks for sharing.

Norman

 

[gflat65]

Nice shots. Love the rics. Welcome to MTRC.

 

[eyebedam]

Nice tank & pics welcome.

 

[streetracinsrt]

Looks great really like the rock work

 

[crumbletop]

Welcome!

I agree with gflat -- those rics look great! Very nice tank.

Our November meeting will be in Franklin, right off of 65. Maybe you can make that one...

 

[teamreefers]

we will try if we know the specifics when and where?

 

[crumbletop]

Not sure on the time. It will be at Fins of Franklin on Sunday, November 11 after they close. I think maybe they close at 6pm so it would start around then. I'll know more details as we get closer.

 

[Angela Short]

Welcome to MTRC! You have a great looking system going there! I traveled down to your neck of the woods a few months ago and it is a haul for sure. Do you have any good LFS's? You have some nice looking things already.

Those do look like baby shrimp also. How long have they been in there? They ussually are eatten up by the other fish pretty fast or the overflow/filter gets them before they get very big. Also they are almost impossiable to raise any shrimp in captivity without proper food culturs and then its still hardley ever succesfull I think but they are neet to look at.

 

[teamreefers]

Thanks everyone for the complements. It's definitely a work in progress.

No LFS in our area. Well actually there is a small one that has very limited SW.
I work in Huntsville and visit stores there quite often.

We noticed the little shrimp about 4 days ago. They are hard to see in the pic but they are about 4-5mm long.

 

[crumbletop]

Re: Introduction and a bunch of pics

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10632792#post10632792 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by teamreefers
Hi MTRC members,

My name is Jack. My wife, Kathy, and I have been lurking in these forums for awhile and I figured it was about time
we formally introduce ourselves. We will be joining the club shortly however, we will not attend many meetings since
we live so far away. We live in Lawrenceburg which is about 25 miles south of Columbia.

You might want to look into the North Alabama Reef Club for meetings, etc, since you work in Huntsville. That may be closer for you than we are. You are welcome here, though -- just a suggestion that may be easier at the gas pump

 

[Pickupman66]

Very nice large box of water. love the openness of the rock work. Welcome to the forum.

 

[waynesworld]

You are not that far from us in the boro so maybe you can come to one of our meetings when we have one here we are getting a lot of people from here so we should be having them a little more around here. We can also have a meeting for a football game some time as I got the NFL Sunday ticket this year.

 

[gsusfreak]

wow..the openess of the tank is fantastic....what did you use to hold them up?....aquamend?

 

[Kalied20]

I like the open rock setup. It looks nice now. Will be very nice as it grows and fills in.

 

[teamreefers]

Re: Re: Introduction and a bunch of pics

Re: Re: Introduction and a bunch of pics

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10640523#post10640523 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by crumbletop
You might want to look into the North Alabama Reef Club for meetings, etc, since you work in Huntsville. That may be closer for you than we are. You are welcome here, though -- just a suggestion that may be easier at the gas pump

That might be an idea but then Kathy may not be able to come to the meetings! since I do not work weekends! thanks for the thought though.

 

[NeveSSL]

I love your rockwork as well. Looks great!

Welcome to tha club.

Brandon

 

[teamreefers]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10644515#post10644515 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gsusfreak
wow..the openess of the tank is fantastic....what did you use to hold them up?....aquamend?

Just used acrylic rods and cement( the special kind!) it is actually 4 pilars( with acyrlic rods) and then some long pieces that we found at Johnny's in athens. it worked out very well. I thought ?but looks a little like stonehenge? do you think?