Drblakjak55
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Great look. Can't wait for next pics
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The 720- take 2
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frankabagnale
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Awesome tank!
jrpdriver
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Thanks buddy, I don't have much to trade right now, just a few things in my bedroom tank, but once I'm back in the swing of things I'm definitely up for some trading
Wiskey
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No worries! I can trade with you now, and you can trade with me whenever. Nice thing about this hobby is that everything is always growing. I don't have too many exciting corals that are fragging size yet, but I do have a red planet that is cuttable, I could frag a colony of purple pylop birds nest, and green pylop birds nest mine grew quick. I have forest fire Digi I can frag, blue pylop digi, and a green base spongenodes that has a cool growth form.
And I'm sure a few other things like blue milli and halkings that's all I can think of atm. All common corals of course, but I'll bring any or all of them up if you think they would go well in your tank.
Whiskey
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sir do you need cement i have some i can gave you... let me know
i will be in oc saturday
jrpdriver
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Awesome, thank you. Let me know when you are planning to make a trip up this way
Wiskey
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I'm actually a little closer now! I bought a house in Fallbrook,.. then right after that somebody made a left across traffic right infront of me and totaled my car. The upshot of this is I was forced to buy another one, so I got a Camaro!!!
I graduate school this weekend, after that I can come on up any time! I'd love to catch up and see the setup in person.
Whiskey
jrpdriver
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Bummer about the accident but grats on the new house, car and graduation! Sounds good, shoot me a message when you want to head over
jrpdriver
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Well, nothing terribly exciting to post, I hooked up a fan on the system, its programmed to come on if the tank gets above 79.5. I used a fan for evaporative cooling on my last system and it worked very well, I got better cooling with the fan than I did with a 1HP chiller.
jrpdriver
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I'll have to look when I get home, its a window mount fan from Home Depot
jrpdriver
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I'd appreciate some opinions on my fish list. In the past I've always had a large variety of fish in my tanks. I was considering something different for this tank like a large school of yellow tangs and convicts ( 7-11 of each). A large school of Chromis and Lyre Tail Anthias (15-30 of each) and just a couple odd wrasse with an Achilles Tang as the center piece, they have always been my favorite fish. I've done quite a bit of snorkling lately in different parts of the world and more often than not I see large schools of only a few types of fish, I thought this approach would look more natural in a reef tank, but I'm still on the fence about it because I do like the variety of color that the "Large variety of different fish" approach offers . Thoughts anyone?
sfsuphysics
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My experience with chromis is that they will keep picking on the weakest link and eventually you'll have as many as you really have "territory" in your tank (which granted is quite a bit). Never had much luck with the Anthias either, although those haven't been observed to be mean towards each other, just mystery fish losses where I never saw a colorful orange fish on the floor. Some cardinalfish might also fit your bill of "grouping" fish
I too rather have a mix of fish rather than an assortment of one type, so tangs? purple, yellow, kole, tomini, etc etc.. they will get a pecking order just like a bunch of all yellows (not sure they'd school in any circumstance though except if they're all going for the same piece of nori you have in the tank), but opinions are like a-holes everyone has one, it's your tank so whatever you'd want is the overriding factor here
I too rather have a mix of fish rather than an assortment of one type, so tangs? purple, yellow, kole, tomini, etc etc.. they will get a pecking order just like a bunch of all yellows (not sure they'd school in any circumstance though except if they're all going for the same piece of nori you have in the tank), but opinions are like a-holes everyone has one, it's your tank so whatever you'd want is the overriding factor here
dave.m
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Fish lists are very personal, and with a 720 gal display tank, I think you've got the latitude to put in just about any reef fish commonly kept.
Just a couple of thoughts: Shoaling fish don't usually tend to stay together much in the aquarium unless they feel some sort of threat. You might see more natural behaviours amongst your tangs if you pit some of the more territorial tangs (e.g. powder blues) against tangs who tend to rove in raiding gangs (e.g. convicts).
Chromis tend to kill each other off over time, but that may be due to crowding. With a large tank like yours you may not see this behaviour.
You might want to open your list up to a few more wrasses and clean-up type fish, like sand stirrers.
Dave.M
Just a couple of thoughts: Shoaling fish don't usually tend to stay together much in the aquarium unless they feel some sort of threat. You might see more natural behaviours amongst your tangs if you pit some of the more territorial tangs (e.g. powder blues) against tangs who tend to rove in raiding gangs (e.g. convicts).
Chromis tend to kill each other off over time, but that may be due to crowding. With a large tank like yours you may not see this behaviour.
You might want to open your list up to a few more wrasses and clean-up type fish, like sand stirrers.
Dave.M
jrpdriver
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My experience with chromis is that they will keep picking on the weakest link and eventually you'll have as many as you really have "territory" in your tank (which granted is quite a bit). Never had much luck with the Anthias either, although those haven't been observed to be mean towards each other, just mystery fish losses where I never saw a colorful orange fish on the floor. Some cardinalfish might also fit your bill of "grouping" fish
I too rather have a mix of fish rather than an assortment of one type, so tangs? purple, yellow, kole, tomini, etc etc.. they will get a pecking order just like a bunch of all yellows (not sure they'd school in any circumstance though except if they're all going for the same piece of nori you have in the tank), but opinions are like a-holes everyone has one, it's your tank so whatever you'd want is the overriding factor here
yeah all true...I really can't make up my mind, I really like the look of large schools but I don't know if I will eventually get bored with it and regret the decision...just thinking out loud here
jrpdriver
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Thats a good point about the lack of a threat in the tank, I either need to add a couple larger aggressive tangs or go away from the large group of tang idea, because a bunch of the same fish scattered all over the place in the tank would be a waste
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