125g saltwater startup

[Mushroomman]

Looks like a good start, lotus and eco keep us posted.

Lyretail anthias are so nice...

 

[FroggyFox]

Lookin good guys You know I'm jealous!

 

[TRe]

i have been told that in a large enough tank with the rocks setup in 2 seprate piles you can keep fish that you normally wouldnt keep together since ther are actualy 2 reefs... thats how they have it setup at my lfs only its a 400 gallon tank

 

[Joe Fish]

That is how my tank is setup and now that you say that I can see how some of my fish stay on one side. Could just be coincidence though.

 

[kevin4052002]

I am considering lyretail anthias, MushroomMan recommended them, too.

I love mine. He's not too picky about feeding times either. Definitely the dominate fish over the clown, wrasse, and angel. If I do ever forget to feed him, he'll splash some water up to remind me. At my store, we've got some gorgeous Indian Ocean lyretail males (bright red vs. the trad. pink). We put one with 3 bright orange females.


Love the setup too.

 

[Lotus]

It looks like the cycle/curing is well underway. Ammonia is at 6 ppm and nitrites are at more than 5 ppm. Will do a small water change tomorrow and clean up some of the dead stuff.

Edit: We just dug up an actinic and a 12,000K CF bulb from an old fixture, so it looks a little more like a saltwater tank now. We're only running the lights a few hours a day right now. We only have 110 watts over the tank, but I think it will be fine until we go reef. Any thoughts on the current lighting for FOWLR?

 

[CAPSLOCK]

Well, I have 20-30W (I forget) over my 45g tall and it looks fine... the fish can definitely tell the difference also because as soon as it's off they go to bed. So I assume that 1WPG would be even better.

 

[1979camaro]

that amount of light will be sufficient for FOWLR...may even get a lot of nice coraline growth as a result

 

[aresgod]

that is like 5 posts today camaro, some might get the impression that you belong to this forum or something....

 

[1979camaro]

lol...yah, crazy town...I am around more than you guys think, just haven't been posting much. Seems like a lot of the former newbies have things under control!

 

[aresgod]

I resent the implications of that post Camaro

 

[TRe]

when i went to my lfs i took a pic with my phone of that 400 gallon tank that i was talkin about being setup in two seprate reefs

 

[Fuzz16]

wow, you took that with your phone!

i like the idea of it being two different rock formations insetad of one right in the middle or what not.

 

[1979camaro]

i wasn't implying you were a former newbie you big jerk...i was thinking more of yahoofishkeeper actually

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

i wasn't implying you were a former newbie you big jerk...i was thinking more of yahoofishkeeper actually

eh? how so?

 

[Lotus]

Good news! The ammonia looks like it has almost dropped to zero. Nitrites are still sky-high, but things are progressing faster than I thought they would.

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

thats awesome! have you decided if you are keeping the rock the same?

 

[Lotus]

Ecotank changed it slightly.

The problem is, I'm too short to reach the bottom without a stepladder. It's much easier for him to do it.

We might take a look at it over the weekend when we're doing fishy stuff.

 

[Mahamotorworks]

That is always better when Good things go faster then what you expect. You changed the rock work? Do you know what that means? Time for more Photos.

MAHA

 

[Lotus]

It really hasn't changed enough to warrant a picture