lauremf2002
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So, today I bought what I think is something between an 80 and 90 gallon tank on Craigslist. Its an acrylic tank measuring 60in wide x 18in deep x 20in tall. It is reef ready and the overflow sticks out about 4 1/2 off the back wall in the tank. The whole back wall is overflow. The tank is scratched to pieces:sad1:. It came with what looks like an oak stand and hood. I think the light was a 48" Current Nova Extreme with 4 bulbs? And a Marineland 360 canister filter.
The livestock from what I can remember off the top of my head is as follows:
2 very large Black Tail Damsels (I think these will have to go)
1 clownfish ( exact same size as my current clown so will probably have to go)
2 large pajama cardinals ( one looks very sad, O said there used to be 3 but 1 died. I suspect the nice looking one is a bully. These will probably go too. Their red eyes give me the creeps.)
1 purple psuedochromis (I will try and keep this, but I have a striped fang blenny and a springeri dottiback that Im not sure will like this)
banded coral shrimp (not sure on this, Ive heard they can be a nuisance)
a few turbos
Not enough sand IMO and not enough rock but I will be putting the rock and sand from my 37g in so this works out perfect.
Corals:
4 or 5 dinner plate sized elephant ear mushrooms (will keep 1)
3-5 very large colonies of hammer coral. (will keep 1 and frag the rest)
Very sad toadstool leather (not sure on this one)
2 dinnerplate sized colonies of weird shiny pink stuff. Maybe clove polyps that arent opening?
tons of zoos ( I will frag these)
Enormous brown nepthea. (this could be fragged into at least 3 sizable organisms)
small clove polyp colony that is barely opening.
I think there were a few other shrooms in there
I will repost with pics and a more concrete list of what I want to sell/donate when I get all this home.
This tank needs some serious love. And it is teaming with aiptasia.
List of things to do in the near future:
Break tank down and move from south side of okc to my house on the north side.
Stain stand and hood black
Take inventory and "clean house"
move contents of 37g into new tank
Kill aiptasia
Things to do in distant future
Add Skimmer
Add sump/fuge
add more light (will try and find a way to add my 150w mh without melting anything)
Add ATO
Calcium reactor?
possibly replace actual tank since it is so scratched up
I have alot of work ahead of me.
The livestock from what I can remember off the top of my head is as follows:
2 very large Black Tail Damsels (I think these will have to go)
1 clownfish ( exact same size as my current clown so will probably have to go)
2 large pajama cardinals ( one looks very sad, O said there used to be 3 but 1 died. I suspect the nice looking one is a bully. These will probably go too. Their red eyes give me the creeps.)
1 purple psuedochromis (I will try and keep this, but I have a striped fang blenny and a springeri dottiback that Im not sure will like this)
banded coral shrimp (not sure on this, Ive heard they can be a nuisance)
a few turbos
Not enough sand IMO and not enough rock but I will be putting the rock and sand from my 37g in so this works out perfect.
Corals:
4 or 5 dinner plate sized elephant ear mushrooms (will keep 1)
3-5 very large colonies of hammer coral. (will keep 1 and frag the rest)
Very sad toadstool leather (not sure on this one)
2 dinnerplate sized colonies of weird shiny pink stuff. Maybe clove polyps that arent opening?
tons of zoos ( I will frag these)
Enormous brown nepthea. (this could be fragged into at least 3 sizable organisms)
small clove polyp colony that is barely opening.
I think there were a few other shrooms in there
I will repost with pics and a more concrete list of what I want to sell/donate when I get all this home.
This tank needs some serious love. And it is teaming with aiptasia.
List of things to do in the near future:
Break tank down and move from south side of okc to my house on the north side.
Stain stand and hood black
Take inventory and "clean house"
move contents of 37g into new tank
Kill aiptasia
Things to do in distant future
Add Skimmer
Add sump/fuge
add more light (will try and find a way to add my 150w mh without melting anything)
Add ATO
Calcium reactor?
possibly replace actual tank since it is so scratched up
I have alot of work ahead of me.
Totally sucks even if I didnt want to keep them. Word of advice, even a tiny amount of lemon juice used to kill aiptasia will drastically affect your ph and it probably wont affect the aip...
