125 Gallon pictures (lots of them)

[cristhiam]

Well my tank is recovering from an sps meltdown (not all but lost my 4 year old purple tip acro, and a few caps) due to high nitrates, finally it's starting to setle again and got the problem under control (I think), now I'm in a battle with caulerpa and a few flat worms, there is alwasy something but here are some pictures, enjoy!
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/fulltankDec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/side1Dec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/sideDec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/acandec07.jpg

My dendro, I have not been able to train it to open during the day time!
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/dendroDaydec07.jpg

During the night
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/dendrodec07.jpg

[cristhiam]

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/foxDec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/frogspawndec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/gigas.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/GigasLTA.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/hammerdec07.jpg

[cristhiam]

My mandarin, I don't think it's eating the flat worms but it's pretty fat. My poor purple tip acro on the left, most of it gone, grew from 1 inch frag and it took about 3+ years to get that big
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/MandarinDec07.jpg

This coral it's about 10" all around and can send swipers around 5+/- inches at night
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/merulinaDec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/mushroomsdec07.jpg

My ora duncan, still a baby, the mother colony where it came from has polyps at around 4+/- inches
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/oraduncanDec07.jpg

[cristhiam]

Roes Duncan (to the right) I started with one polyp, I can't count them now
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/roesduncandec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/palys.jpg

The Pseudo Cromis is a mean fish, doesn't like anything added
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/PseudoChromisDec07.jpg

This guy is agressive too beat up my kole when I first introduced it, also attacks my hand when I mess with the tank.
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/starryblennieDec07.jpg

[cristhiam]

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/toadDec07.jpg

My favorite clows, I have them for 2+ years now, 2 percula (I think) and 1 black from ORA. They keep going from the torch to the frogspawn to the derasa clam!
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/torchandclownsdec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/torchdec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/xeniaDec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/yellowpolypsDec07.jpg

[cristhiam]

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/derasadec07.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pinatas/125dec07/crocea.jpg

[bsagecko]

what kind of lighting system do you have for this tank it is awesome i would love to do this to my 150g

I have never seen a black clown like that where did you get him

Your clams are truly beautiful

[cristhiam]

Ha ha! I know it was coming :) Well I've been using 2 Icecaps 660s with 4 40W 6500K from HD and 2 110W Super actinics. The 40W bulbs gets changed every 6 months and the super actinics at about 1 year, actually I'm getting close to 2 years in February, I guess I need to save up and change them.

I believe it's all about positioning of the corals and clams and of course water quality, like my crocea it's at about 4" away from the top same with some of the sps left, the acro that died on me was just about 1" 3+ years ago. I have about 2" left that survived.

The black clown came from ORA my LFS gets them in. It's beautiful.

[cristhiam]

The 40W bulbs with the IceCap 660 runs at about 80W according to IceCap.

[cristhiam]

Here is a video of the clows hosting the torch :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6G8dhpEtbM

[OffshoreNdeep]

how does the tail spot and starry get along?

[cristhiam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11503961#post11503961 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bc explore reef
how does the tail spot and starry get along?
No aggression at all, but they were introduced within couple of weeks apart about a year 1/2 ago. The starry blennie has an attitude now, it beat up a kole tang that I intruduced about 3 weeks ago (it recovered) and also attacks my hand.

[BrianD]

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