My 125 gallon REEF tank....

[lawtchan]

One of my hobbies is my 125 gallon REEF tank..

figured some may like to see some picks..

125 gallon saltwater tank
125 berliner sump
I am using one half of sump as a refugium filled with live rock and chaeto...have baby brine and copepods living in there....hopefully :0003
cyclone protein skimmer
PHosban phosphate reactor
2 36 " 96 watt power compact lights white/atinic
1 150 Watt metal halide light

Below are various pics with full light spectrum and at the bottom is just the atinic lights..


Here is a picture of the aquarium in full spectrum light...

below, red sea sponge..to the left of the sponge are two LPS trumpet corals--=neon green..
also a few cardinal fish are hanging out...

this is one of my prizes...an LPS hard Elegant coral which my clownfish lives in...neon green which really pops with atinics on

below is a green frogspawn coral.. I have two of these and they are growing quick. will frag them off in about a month..

below...

to the left is a 'flowerpot' coral. when it feeds each hole extends about 1.5 inches out...

to the right is a another neon trumpet coral

below is my second frogspawn coral with a cleaner shrimp hanging out underneath..

 

[The Joker]

Wow! Cool pics.

Lot of work goes into that. Nice job. Relaxing to look at too.

 

[lawtchan]

below is a torch coral..had it for awhile..clownfish will hang out at this and the elegant coral..

below is a 'dragons eye' polyp....fast grower which will cover rock...has purple middle with green and red...

below is a long polyped coral spreading across a rock..its a filter feeder...

below are brown and blue mushrooom growing on rocks with a orange line cardinal fish on top...

 

[BADTODABONE]

very cool! How much time each week to maintain ?

 

[lawtchan]

below is 1 of 2 flame scallopsl... with a redline wrasse to the left...the scallops will move around each night....

below is a 'birdsnest' coral...this is a stoney coral that need high light...check out the emerald crab feeding underneath...

below is a yellow fiji leather coral... opens up when metal halides come on...

below is another emerald crab hanging out under the mushrooms...

below is 1 of 3 peppermint shrimp under some live rock

 

[LetsMakeMoney]

That's pretty cool lawtchan :toast: I like the cut out fish drawing the little one put up there

 

[lawtchan]

below is a pink cauliflower colt coral...filter feeder and uses light through photosynthesis for nutrition...

below....various mushrooms...top left mushroom is getting ready to 'bud off'... notice the middler..it will seperate and make a new mushroom...

below is a coral banded shrimp...he eats left over food and other 'junk' in the aquarium...

below...GOTTA represent LSU.... Purple and gold Tang..... another prize possession...very expensive as far as fish....

below is a yellow tang...

 

[lawtchan]

here is the tank under atinic lighting...

below is the elegant coral under atinic...neon really pops....

flowerpot and trumpet coral under atinic...

 

[lawtchan]

very cool! How much time each week to maintain ?

BTB...

really the hardest part is set-up...you really have to be patient and get your tank 'cycled' first....

belive me, I have learned through trial and lots of ERRORS!!

wednesday and saturdays I will add stronitum, calcium, iodine, coral vite and other supplements..

I run my temp at 77.6, and ph at 8.4..nitrate and nitrites are 0 ppm, with calcium about 450 -550..



I use micron bags to help filter water, and will clean them once a week when they clog up...

that's about it...

except for topping off water due to evaporations...

I use 3 stage ROI unit to filter the tap water...

 

[BADTODABONE]

yellow tang...

add to MJ Dictionary

:0008

 

[BADTODABONE]

BTB...

really the hardest part is set-up...you really have to be patient and get your tank 'cycled' first....

belive me, I have learned through trial and lots of ERRORS!!

wednesday and saturdays I will add stronitum, calcium, iodine, coral vite and other supplements..

I run my temp at 77.6, and ph at 8.4..nitrate and nitrites are 0 ppm, with calcium about 450 -550..



I use micron bags to help filter water, and will clean them once a week when they clog up...

that's about it...

except for topping off water due to evaporations...

I use 3 stage ROI unit to filter the tap water...

Cool...Thanks for the reply.

 

[Hashish]

Very cool!

 

[lawtchan]

I will add about anothe 100 lbs of live rock to fill up gaps in bck of tank...

Most of my corals and frags have come off craigslist..

People get tired of tanks or moving and I get corals and equipment .., cheap

I got both frogspawns for 15.00 .. They would be 60.00 ach in a pet store

 

[hedgehog]

those are some cool pics, thanks for sharing :0074

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

VERY--impressive!!!!!!

 

[Agent 0659]

http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/08/31/chad-ochocincos-headboard-is-a-giant-aquarium-pics/

 

[saint]

How long did it take you to get it to that point? Very impressive.

What does "frag them off" mean?

 

[saint]

http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/08/31/chad-ochocincos-headboard-is-a-giant-aquarium-pics/

I can't believe that they didn't find some way to cover up the hardwires...he probably spend several hundred grand on that setup and they couldn't bury the wires in the wall or build something to make them disappear??

 

[lawtchan]

How long did it take you to get it to that point? Very impressive.

What does "frag them off" mean?

this take has been going for about 6 months...

as corals get bigger, yoiu can cut off a fragment or 'frag' and super glue to another piece of rock or 'plug'...

you can give to friends or sell or move to another part of your tank and the frag will grow into another specimen...

i'm getting ready to get a frag of a 'miami hurricane chalice coral..it is green/orange...very hard to get, i've seen one, which was the size of an orange, except flat, go fro 3000.00...:scared

the frag i will be the size of a penny..for 80.00...

 

[lawtchan]

http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/08/31/chad-ochocincos-headboard-is-a-giant-aquarium-pics/

if you got the money...you can do some amazing designs with aquariums..

it's actually much easier to take care of the large aquariums, rather than the small one's b/c a change in water chemistry is less detrimental....