ironwill723
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I thought I would post some updated tank shots and videos of my 220g which has been up and running since late September. The tank is mostly complete minus some new phoenix bulbs and a canopy I still need to build. Built as a peninsula tank dividing my living and dining room the tank is a mix of mainly softies, lps, and a few sps.
Fish at the moment include 5 tangs, 4 dwarf angels, 3 wrasses, 2 green chromis, copperband butterfly, diamond goby, tomato clown, royal gamma, 4 conchs, 4 emerald crabs, sand sifting starfish, 100 blue leg hermit crabs, 50 snails and numerous others I am sure I forgot.
Filtration is a 90g sump plumbed through the other side of my house to the laundry room running a Vertex IN280 skimmer, 2x 36w Turbo Twist UV filters, BRS Dual Reactors, Ranco dual temp controller, fuge with live rock and chaeto.
Lighting currently is 3 x DE 250w PFO Mini Pendants with a 14k and 2 x 20k bulbs that make the tank look too yellow at the moment especially with my GPS which look brown under the one 14 k bulb. New 14k Phoenix bulbs are in the immediate future if I decide to stick with MH's which I hope will help with colors. Flow is created by two Vortech MP40s and a Panworld 250ps sump pump.
My show fish at the moment is the juvenile Achilles tang that is about 3.5" big and loves swimming against the current in the front corner of my tank. I plan to add a few more fish before I am done and a lot more corals as the tank matures. All the fish you see eat out of my hand except for the achilles tang which I got a few weeks ago from DFS and eats from the nori clip and mysis that float by during feedings.
Hope everyone enjoys a few quick shots...If you click the first few shots they play a short video from my camera.
This is a December shot of my female Bluestar Leopard wrasse. It sleeps in the sand and overnight it changed from a female to male and looks nothing like this anymore. It now is purple and lime green with stripes.
Older full tank shot:
Dec 09 Left side:
Dec 09 Right side:
Dec 09 Short Side looking in:
Fish at the moment include 5 tangs, 4 dwarf angels, 3 wrasses, 2 green chromis, copperband butterfly, diamond goby, tomato clown, royal gamma, 4 conchs, 4 emerald crabs, sand sifting starfish, 100 blue leg hermit crabs, 50 snails and numerous others I am sure I forgot.
Filtration is a 90g sump plumbed through the other side of my house to the laundry room running a Vertex IN280 skimmer, 2x 36w Turbo Twist UV filters, BRS Dual Reactors, Ranco dual temp controller, fuge with live rock and chaeto.
Lighting currently is 3 x DE 250w PFO Mini Pendants with a 14k and 2 x 20k bulbs that make the tank look too yellow at the moment especially with my GPS which look brown under the one 14 k bulb. New 14k Phoenix bulbs are in the immediate future if I decide to stick with MH's which I hope will help with colors. Flow is created by two Vortech MP40s and a Panworld 250ps sump pump.
My show fish at the moment is the juvenile Achilles tang that is about 3.5" big and loves swimming against the current in the front corner of my tank. I plan to add a few more fish before I am done and a lot more corals as the tank matures. All the fish you see eat out of my hand except for the achilles tang which I got a few weeks ago from DFS and eats from the nori clip and mysis that float by during feedings.
Hope everyone enjoys a few quick shots...If you click the first few shots they play a short video from my camera.
This is a December shot of my female Bluestar Leopard wrasse. It sleeps in the sand and overnight it changed from a female to male and looks nothing like this anymore. It now is purple and lime green with stripes.
Older full tank shot:
Dec 09 Left side:
Dec 09 Right side:
Dec 09 Short Side looking in:
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