nature boy
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Look what happened this past week!!! Would have posted earlier but got busy with thanksgiving. I am very pleased with the quality of work and the wife loves that there isn't a hole in the wall anymore.
Nature Boy's 270 gallon
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nature boy
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The insides of the cabinet doors are finished. As far as the rest of the stand and frame work, I don't plan on sealing or finishing anything else. So far I have not had a problem at all with humidity. Stays about 30 to 50 percent so far in the fish room. I was planning on installing some fans above the tank is some fashion to help with cooling and humidity if it becomes a problem.
nature boy
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I am pretty sure my skimmer ended up running in 6.5 to 6.75 inches of water with the stand I made for it. This seems to work great. It does produce some microbubbles, more than my old SRO 2000 int did. However by installing a tee on the outlet of the skimmer pointing up and down, noise and microbubbles were greatly reduced. I would highly recommend doing this.
nature boy
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Just an update and a request for advice. The three tangs are doing great. I'm not sure if the sailfin or naso is going to be the boss yet, but watching them control the tank together is interesting indeed. The fact that both these fish might be a foot long in the end is scary.
I added three fish from divers den, a red fin fairy wrasse, black cap basslet, and starry blenny. Fortunately all are doing exactly what they are supposed to be.
So my current stocking of 6 fish is as follows
Blonde Naso Tang
Red Sea Sailfin Tang
Tomini Tang
Red Fin Fairy Wrasse
Black Cap Basslet
Starry Blenny
Now, on my list of fish to add is as follows
Powder Blue Tang (I have pretty much crossed this off the list and would rather have some other of the following fish)
2 Cinnamon Clowns
Longnose Hawkfish (do they really eat shrimp?, if so then I am going to cross off the list, shrimp are more important to me)
More ***. Wrasses
1 or 2 dwarf angels
maybe 1 butterfly
and a large group of ????????(NOT chromis or cardinals)
any suggestions would be welcome. Really struggling here.
I added three fish from divers den, a red fin fairy wrasse, black cap basslet, and starry blenny. Fortunately all are doing exactly what they are supposed to be.
So my current stocking of 6 fish is as follows
Blonde Naso Tang
Red Sea Sailfin Tang
Tomini Tang
Red Fin Fairy Wrasse
Black Cap Basslet
Starry Blenny
Now, on my list of fish to add is as follows
Powder Blue Tang (I have pretty much crossed this off the list and would rather have some other of the following fish)
2 Cinnamon Clowns
Longnose Hawkfish (do they really eat shrimp?, if so then I am going to cross off the list, shrimp are more important to me)
More ***. Wrasses
1 or 2 dwarf angels
maybe 1 butterfly
and a large group of ????????(NOT chromis or cardinals)
any suggestions would be welcome. Really struggling here.
Bretts05jeep
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I have a very fat falco hawk fish and I added three peppermint shrimp and he immediately eat one. There is still one shrimp left that lives in a tight hole and just grabs food that floats by. Im sure it I had a long nose hawk he would be pulled out of there.
tigershark4
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Yes, I made the same mistake. Had a flame hawk added a cleaner shrimp and before it could hit the bottom it was dinner.
Scythanith
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LN Hawkfish really do eat shrimp. Mine does at least. Shrimp that you'd think are to big for the fish it just grabs and crushes.
Great looking wood work! Why not make your wrasses be the larger group of fish you have? I am planning on 4-5 Golden Rhomboids in my 270.
Great looking wood work! Why not make your wrasses be the larger group of fish you have? I am planning on 4-5 Golden Rhomboids in my 270.
nature boy
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Not sure, I don't think so. Honestly, I never tested for one. I fed the tank once up and running a little every day with some reef chili and threw a tiny bit of frozen brine shrimp in every so often. Waited a couple months while doing this, with skimmer and cheato in fuge going, before adding any livestock. Seems to have worked out.
nature boy
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So I got about $500 to spend on the tank and trying to decided about getting more fish and starting some corals
or
getting a vortech mp60 to go along with my two mp40s. (I know the mp60s run more than $500) This was always the plan to add this pump just not sure if now is the time.
What would you do?
or
getting a vortech mp60 to go along with my two mp40s. (I know the mp60s run more than $500) This was always the plan to add this pump just not sure if now is the time.
What would you do?
petere1989
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personally I would get the pump, i'd go with equipment purchases first. Especially if your questioning your flow, and by getting another pump i assume you are. Cyno is caused by lack of flow, and so i'd go for that first. Let your current inhabitants settle and make sure things are running smoothly before getting more livestock. just my opinion. good luck! nice tank by the way, looking really nice.
tigershark4
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I would start adding corals. You proably have good flow at this point and you add additional flow down the road as the corals grow in.
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