My 300g dream tank build

buffalobunch said:
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Love the catfish.
 
Awesome tank, stand/canopy, plumbing, gate valves, Iwaki's and rock work!!
Great job!
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Awesome build! I don't think I realized that they made hex tanks (if thats what it is called) that big, very cool looking!! What is the length of the tank, and the depth of the middle of the tank?
Great job on the rockwork, its really cool looking and will look amazing and natural once the corals fill it in.
 
buffalobunch said:
Ok here's the crazy part Hunter, the one on the left looked exactly like the one on the right when we bought him. Blue outline, was displaying all the time and then the girl just started to change one day. The transition only took about a week.
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Then in that case he wasn't quite a terminal male, and still a transitional male. That's the rub here; it's all subjective opinion based of visual "clues" when a male actually becomes a terminal male. Just because it "looks" like it, doesn't necessarily mean it is yet.

As for transitioning in a week, that's certainly within reason. One of the questions I get most often is "how long will it take for a female to change to male?", but there's no set answer to the question. It could be a week (or even just a few days) or it could take many, many months. It's highly environmental.
 
Dreamer79 said:
wow nice tank.....reallie nice. how to u clean the live rock after muratic acid- hydrogen peroxide. thanks
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Here is a thread that is similar to what we did. After the muriatic acid bath, we let it dry for several days then we poured hydrogen peroxide over the rocks and then let them dry again for a few weeks.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1914426


Fig70g said:
Awesome build! I don't think I realized that they made hex tanks (if thats what it is called) that big, very cool looking!! What is the length of the tank, and the depth of the middle of the tank?
Great job on the rockwork, its really cool looking and will look amazing and natural once the corals fill it in.
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The length is somewhere around 8ft give or take. The middle of the tank is 30". It still has the sticker on it of the company here in town that used to make custom acrylic tanks. Inside the stand there are pull out draws for all my fish stuff!
 
evolved said:
Then in that case he wasn't quite a terminal male, and still a transitional male. That's the rub here; it's all subjective opinion based of visual "clues" when a male actually becomes a terminal male. Just because it "looks" like it, doesn't necessarily mean it is yet.

As for transitioning in a week, that's certainly within reason. One of the questions I get most often is "how long will it take for a female to change to male?", but there's no set answer to the question. It could be a week (or even just a few days) or it could take many, many months. It's highly environmental.
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I sure hope they continue to get along. I also have an exquisite that hangs out with them too. After years of keeping wrasses, IMO, I think I've never had any trouble keeping several Cirrhilabrus species together because I always have a mixed shoal of anthias for them to hang out with and display. I'll have to get a video of the exquisite displaying. It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. He literally looks like an electric blue neon sign. He is a beautiful fish.
 
Here is the new mangroves I added Wednesday. Lets hope these little guys get as big as the one that I have had for 5 years now!
 
buffalobunch said:
I sure hope they continue to get along. I also have an exquisite that hangs out with them too. After years of keeping wrasses, IMO, I think I've never had any trouble keeping several Cirrhilabrus species together because I always have a mixed shoal of anthias for them to hang out with and display. I'll have to get a video of the exquisite displaying. It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. He literally looks like an electric blue neon sign. He is a beautiful fish.
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Oh keeping different species together is no problem, so long as you avoid a few in particular. My tank has 16 fish in it, 13 of which are wrasses of 9 different species (and one more in QT). Every night is a display fest. :) And yes, it's beautiful and amazing to watch, and the best part about keeping them. Now when you get nuptial response from some is when things get really amazing.

My johnsoni trio spawn almost every evening. Advanced aquarist published my video a while back (at that time just a pair of them): http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/video-of-cirrhilabrus-johnsoni-spawning

But back to your build. Tank is shaping up very nicely. :)
 
Great build thread!

How long from start to finish on the build? That's doing all the sanding & staining to getting the rock ready and then sand and water in and finally fish and corals? Did you post this already and I missed it?
 
Weyrman said:
Great build thread!

How long from start to finish on the build? That's doing all the sanding & staining to getting the rock ready and then sand and water in and finally fish and corals? Did you post this already and I missed it?
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No you didn't miss any other thread. This is the first one I posted. We bought the tank in January and had it set up mid March. It was a very lengthy process. The tank was painted black when we bought it. When we started stripping it, there was also a few coats of primer too. It was a beast to strip. I started adding fish in April and in May started adding the corals I had kept from the 110.
 
Haven't posted pictures in a while. The mangroves are doing awesome. We've added more fish. I now have my mixed shoal of anthias. One squarespot (we think it's a Flores variant) 4 bartletts and 3 disbars. We may end up putting some lyretails in too. We added a purple tang and a naso tang too. Our female flame wrasse turned into a male so I now have 2 boy flame wrasses. Here are some pictures from this weekend. Starting to look like a reef!



My meteorite cyphastrea is taking over my tonga branch!

My zoa arch. Eventually I want this covered in zoas!


 
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