[Lissa]

I guess, first the stats.

Equipment:

- 75g AGA tank custom drilled through the bottom with a glass corner overflow and 20L sump
- ASM G3 skimmer, gravity fed with the recirculation mod
- Litermeter 3 dosing pump for dosing and auto top-off
- 2 phosban reactors running rowaphos and GAC
- 1 Maxijet 900 and 1 Maxijet 1200 with sureflow mod for circulation (I keep trying to win a vortech in raffles, but I am unlucky)
- ViaAqua return pump
- Pacific Coast 280 1/10 HP chiller (need to upgrade that a little, I think)
- AquaController Jr.
- Aqua 25w UV sterilizer
- 2x 250w DE 14K MH
- 2x 50w Actinic supplementation (run separately from the metal halides)

Livestock:
Fish:

- Blue-Green Chromis (Chromis viridis) (1)
- Pylei Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus pylei) (2 - m/f)
- Purple Firefish (Nemateleotris decora) (1)
- Target Mandarin (Synchiropus picturatus) (1) (I know 75g is a little small, but he's been with me for over a year now and is quite corpulent)
- Yellow Clown Goby (Gobiodon okinawae) (1)
- Richmond's wrasse (Halichoerus richmondi) (1)
- Sanjay's Hybrid Clownfish (Amphiprion percula x Amphiprion ocellaris (black morph)) (2)
- Orange Spotted Rabbitfish (Siganus punctatus) (1) (He was so tiny when I got him - he's going to have to go to his new home in my friend's 400g tank soon)
- Red-Tail Tamarin Wrasse (Anampses chrysocephalus) (1)

Mobile Inverts
- Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis) (1)
- Harlequin Shrimp (Hymenocera elegans) (1)
- Christmas Tree Worm rock (Spirobranchus giganteus) (5 worms on 1 rock)
- Derasa clam (Tridacna derasa) (1)
- Maxima clam (Tridacna maxima) (1)
... + an odd assortment of hermit crabs and snails

Corals
+ SPS
- Blue tort, ORA oregon blue, yellow tort, pink birdsnest, mauve acro, purple ORA deepwater acro of some kind, green stag, orange and green deepwater acro, orange digi, purple digi, green hispida, some kind of fancy tangerine encrusting monti, orange plating monti, yellow w/ blue polyps plating monti, green pavona, red pavona, porites, green/tan pocci

+ LPS
- magma chalice, meteor shower cyphastraea, LE baby's breath favia, green wall hammer, peach torch, some kind of unknown favid with wicked stinging tentacles that plates, light green wall bubble, aussie prism favia, green acans, red acans, orange and green echinata, dendros, yellow scroll, blue blastos, pale yellow encrusting goniopora, purple/green lobo, duncans, and green and brown candy canes

+ Soft corals
- green nepthea, ORA green polyp toadstool, devil's hand, cabbage leather, purple finger leather, red mushrooms (that I hate), purple furry mushrooms, green sinularia, pink pulsing sinularia, purple gorgonian, pink gorgonian, rusty gorgonian, black gorgonian, furry branching gorgonian, white with red polyps sea whip, knobby sea rod, purple star polyps, green star polyps, purple clove polyps, pulsing xenia, purple efflo, yellow yumas and orange florida ricordias

This is a FTS shortly after I moved everything from a 40Br to my 75g in mid October:


Here is May 10, 2009 (please ignore the flatworms):


And here is some of my livestock (I'll try not to repeat the photos I put in the photo forum....)

[ChrisR]

Very nice Lissa and superb pic's too.

[Crabbit]

Great pictures, those shrooms have certainly grown.

[Lissa]

Crabbit, on May 18 2009, 04:43 PM, said:

Great pictures, those shrooms have certainly grown.

I hate those stupid mushrooms. When I eventually switch tanks/move (which isn't planned or anything), I plan to chip every red mushroom off of my rocks. Either that, or I am going to swap rocks with a friend who has a scrolled filefish that eats mushrooms (and all other corals too). Either way, they will be gone!

[gobyboy]

very nice tank and awesome pictures lissa

[Crabbit]

Lissa, on May 18 2009, 09:46 PM, said:

I hate those stupid mushrooms. When I eventually switch tanks/move (which isn't planned or anything), I plan to chip every red mushroom off of my rocks. Either that, or I am going to swap rocks with a friend who has a scrolled filefish that eats mushrooms (and all other corals too). Either way, they will be gone!

What you planning next? bigger I bet?

[gray]

very nice
stunning pics

[dave14]

Great tank, great pic's

[Kevang]

Lovely looking tank and some great photo's

Wish I could get some that good

Cheers

Kev

[jason@jasonsaquatics]

Stunning Tank stunning pics ,credit to you .

If you have any more pics please share especially if there of that quality

yours

jas

[lindsay]

Hi Lissa ,once again great pictures and nice tank.Thanks for including the systems equipment ,which is great as it gives us an idea how you guys run your systems.I was looking at the Maxijet Sureflow mod kits the other day ,how do you rate them?.The other thing i notice about your system is the UV Sterilizer ,most reef tanks over here dont have a UV on them ,is it the same in the states or do alot of reefers use UVs?.

[Domboski]

I love this tank!

[Social D]

Yeh tis a real stunner - wish i could take pics that good

[lindsay]

The last pic is a cracker ,the color's in the shot are amazing.

[Lissa]

lindsay, on May 19 2009, 02:17 PM, said:

Hi Lissa ,once again great pictures and nice tank.Thanks for including the systems equipment ,which is great as it gives us an idea how you guys run your systems.I was looking at the Maxijet Sureflow mod kits the other day ,how do you rate them?.The other thing i notice about your system is the UV Sterilizer ,most reef tanks over here dont have a UV on them ,is it the same in the states or do alot of reefers use UVs?.

I am on the fence about the sureflow mods. They produce great flow in the tank - easily as good as a koralia 3 and they are smaller and less obtrusive. I had one on my old tank and the propeller eventually broke after a year. Apparently they have made some adjustments to the system, so we'll see how this one goes. It's really great bang for your buck though. We did a group buy on them and I think I got them for twenty dollars each.

I would say most people do not use UV sterilizers. My issue is that I have a small apartment so there is no space for a QT tank. In December, I added a Kole Tang that had a nasty parasite - definitely ich-like, but not ich. I think it was probably marine velvet. Regardless, it took out half of my fish population. The other half were 100% unaffected. I started running a UV sterilizer after that as an added precaution. I can tell you that it definitely reduces the amount of algae that grows in the tank. I just had to take it offline because of a leak and I'm having to scrape my glass more often than I was before and I have a very small cyanobacteria bloom in the back corner under my powerhead that doesn't get a lot of flow. Since the only thing that has changed is the UV, I don't think it's too great a leap to say that it's probably related. I have a booming pod population and my corals look great, so I don't think that the UV has had any negative effects.

[Lissa]

Crabbit, on May 18 2009, 05:17 PM, said:

What you planning next? bigger I bet?

Always want to go bigger!!


And to everyone else: thanks for all the kind words.