Hi, my name is Cyndi, Cyd's for short. I've been hanging around reef keepers and a coral farmer (Dragonfly Corals in Noblesville, IN) for 9 years, soaking it all in. Our house has a reverse osmosis filter plumbed into an unused closet with 2 old rain barrels, one for for fresh water and one for saltwater.
I am on my first tank, a 20L with 65lbs of live rock, various corals and 4" to 6" of sand that's 18 months old. I keep a Scooter Blenny (Scooter, 1 year old), and a Pearly Jawfish (Mike Hawk, 4 months). They co-existed with 10 sexy shrimp (Larry, his brother Daryl and his 8 other brothers named Daryl) for 3 months until Mike the Jawfish got big enough to eat all the sexy shrimp. I recently introduced a Coral Banded Shrimp (Pocahontas) but after 2 weeks she disappeared without a trace. My rock is all in the middle and the tank is positioned in the middle of a room and it can be viewed easily from all 4 sides. I feed live brine-shrimp 2 times a week, live phyto daily and veggie flakes once a week. I add Doc's Eco Matter monthly. My filter uses no media, it just moves water. I removed my protein skimmer before I got the Jawfish and do a 25% water-change monthly.
My roommate has a 150 gal reef tank with a 75 gal sump, a 125 with a 55 gallon sump and we share a 55 gallon quarantine tank. In his 150 he keeps what he was sold as a Blond Naso Tang but is really a Black Spot Surgeonfish (Fatty, her 4th bday is in April 2015) a Maroon Clown (Angry Fish, 3 years) a Yellow Chromie (Scaredy Fish, 3 years), some $1 black and white stripe fish (Mr. President, 3 years), a Coral Banded Shrimp (Mr. Snips, 4 years) and Lucy the Hitchhiking True Crab which came in the size of a U.S. quarter on the first batch of live rock we got 5 years ago. She is now fist sized, jet black and not even a little shy; but she usually stays in her burrow and hasn't eaten any of her neighbors (yet).
The 125 has a couple hundred pounds of live rock, an aptasia farm, probably 3 square feet of green star polyps, various giant mushrooms and one, sad Ocellaris Clown with no name. That tank and the rock actually came with the house we bought 3 years ago. We plan on breaking it and the 150 down and combining them into a 300-500 gallon display tank with the current 175 as its sump. The quarantine tank is a 55 with cheap lights and not many hiding places. It contains 3 chromies (known collectively as The Dummies) and a Yellowtail Damsel (*****hole) that we use as canaries. Any new fish lives in that tank for 10 days before it goes into any of the other tanks.
Below is a picture of my 20 gallon 30 minutes after a brine shrimp and phyto feeding.
I am on my first tank, a 20L with 65lbs of live rock, various corals and 4" to 6" of sand that's 18 months old. I keep a Scooter Blenny (Scooter, 1 year old), and a Pearly Jawfish (Mike Hawk, 4 months). They co-existed with 10 sexy shrimp (Larry, his brother Daryl and his 8 other brothers named Daryl) for 3 months until Mike the Jawfish got big enough to eat all the sexy shrimp. I recently introduced a Coral Banded Shrimp (Pocahontas) but after 2 weeks she disappeared without a trace. My rock is all in the middle and the tank is positioned in the middle of a room and it can be viewed easily from all 4 sides. I feed live brine-shrimp 2 times a week, live phyto daily and veggie flakes once a week. I add Doc's Eco Matter monthly. My filter uses no media, it just moves water. I removed my protein skimmer before I got the Jawfish and do a 25% water-change monthly.
My roommate has a 150 gal reef tank with a 75 gal sump, a 125 with a 55 gallon sump and we share a 55 gallon quarantine tank. In his 150 he keeps what he was sold as a Blond Naso Tang but is really a Black Spot Surgeonfish (Fatty, her 4th bday is in April 2015) a Maroon Clown (Angry Fish, 3 years) a Yellow Chromie (Scaredy Fish, 3 years), some $1 black and white stripe fish (Mr. President, 3 years), a Coral Banded Shrimp (Mr. Snips, 4 years) and Lucy the Hitchhiking True Crab which came in the size of a U.S. quarter on the first batch of live rock we got 5 years ago. She is now fist sized, jet black and not even a little shy; but she usually stays in her burrow and hasn't eaten any of her neighbors (yet).
The 125 has a couple hundred pounds of live rock, an aptasia farm, probably 3 square feet of green star polyps, various giant mushrooms and one, sad Ocellaris Clown with no name. That tank and the rock actually came with the house we bought 3 years ago. We plan on breaking it and the 150 down and combining them into a 300-500 gallon display tank with the current 175 as its sump. The quarantine tank is a 55 with cheap lights and not many hiding places. It contains 3 chromies (known collectively as The Dummies) and a Yellowtail Damsel (*****hole) that we use as canaries. Any new fish lives in that tank for 10 days before it goes into any of the other tanks.
Below is a picture of my 20 gallon 30 minutes after a brine shrimp and phyto feeding.
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