The Offical MAIC Fish & Aquarium Thread

[THE-95-STi]

So I did the Fresh water thing for about year with multiple Cichlids & Phirranas. Started with a 10,20,& 55 I still have the phirranas in my 20g with a one disc fish.

They were Fun but I really liked all the options & cool stuff you could do with saltwater tanks so I was like ahh let me sell off the fresh water stuff & start out small. I got a 8g BioCube and I liked it so much I started buying fish that I didn't have room for. I looked on the craigslist and found a sweet deal on a 65g basic set-up and I've been kind learning from there
I currently have clown fish, 2 blennys, 4 damsels, 1 angel, 1 wrasse, 4 anemones, 3 live corals, some snails & blue legged hermit crabs.(I know I have to many fish but I kinda adopted a few)

So after getting my tank I bought about 30lbs of Fiji live rock, man that stuff is $$ make sure shop around I could got about 50lbs for what I spent had I shopped online.




The tank seemed kinda bare and my goal was to do the reef tank set-up, so I got another 50lbs of the live rock and filled out the tank.

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[THE-95-STi]

Nice, so now the tank was finally looking good an full, but it was lacking in color and looked kind of bland. I purchased my anemones and live corals from House of tropicals to put some color in my tank.












So I'm using a
1 marineland emperor 400 filter
1 coralife 65g protein skimmer
2 powerheads
1 200 watt heater
60lbs of live sand
80lbs of live rock

[watson 29]

I'm reserving this spot.

I'll list everything I got though.

50 gal. breeder tank(my salt tank)
-approx. 50 lbs live rock
-Approx 50 lbs live sand
-seaclone 100 Skimmer
-Aquaclear HOB filter turned fuge
-Aquaclear 70 powerhead
-2x 175 Watt metal hallides w/20k bulbs
livestock
-bullet head goby
-blue spot puffer
-lenny the lawnmower blenny
-tomato clown
-a single mexican turbo snail
corals
-Orange Monti
-Dark Orange w/ Blue Polyp Monti
-2 rocks of moon polyp
-Elkhorn in poor shape

20 gal. long(my fresh tank)
-HOB filter
-Standard light bar
-20lbs of Gravel
-Unknown amount of rock from the shores of lake erie
livestock
-2 Brichardi (both male unfortunately)
-1 Fusco
-1 Synodontis

65 gal. (my mom's big salt tank)
-50lbs LR
-50lbs Crushed coral
-seaclone 100 skimmer
-biowheel HOB filter
-96 watt's of powercompact lighting
livestock
-2 mating gold stripe maroon clowns
-Orange spot goby
-yellow tang
-scooter blenny
coral
-Massive cateye bubble coral
-Umbrella leather(budding, sorry, I get the new one)
-Misc. zoa's and mushrooms

10gal (my mom's small salt tank)
-Standard HOB filter
-Standard lightbar
-7lbs lr
-unknown amount of live sand
livestock
-yellow watchman goby
-firefish

Clownfish rearing
- 5 gallon tank
has three morphed fry that are doing great as well as a single frilly mushroom to give them something to possibly host

- 10 gallon tank
where the fry in the 5 gallon will be going in another 3-5 weeks

That's all, I'll have pics up tomorrow

[Rice & Gravy]

We have a fighting fish in a bowl that has been alive for almost 2 years which I think has to be a record. He recently went an entire week without food too. Nothing like you guys but thought i'd share...

[Dystinct]

Originally Posted by watson 29

I'm reserving this spot.

I'll list everything I got though.

50 gal. breeder tank(my salt tank)
-approx. 50 lbs live rock
-Approx 50 lbs live sand
-seaclone 100 Skimmer
-Aquaclear HOB filter turned fuge
-Aquaclear 70 powerhead
-2x 175 Watt metal hallides w/20k bulbs
livestock
-bullet head goby
-blue spot puffer
-lenny the lawnmower blenny
-tomato clown
-a single mexican turbo snail
corals
-Orange Monti
-Dark Orange w/ Blue Polyp Monti
-2 rocks of moon polyp
-Elkhorn in poor shape

20 gal. long(my fresh tank)
-HOB filter
-Standard light bar
-20lbs of Gravel
-Unknown amount of rock from the shores of lake erie
livestock
-2 Brichardi (both male unfortunately)
-1 Fusco
-1 Synodontis

65 gal. (my mom's big salt tank)
-50lbs LR
-50lbs Crushed coral
-seaclone 100 skimmer
-biowheel HOB filter
-96 watt's of powercompact lighting
livestock
-2 mating gold stripe maroon clowns
-Orange spot goby
-yellow tang
-scooter blenny
coral
-Massive cateye bubble coral
-Umbrella leather(budding, sorry, I get the new one)
-Misc. zoa's and mushrooms

10gal (my mom's small salt tank)
-Standard HOB filter
-Standard lightbar
-7lbs lr
-unknown amount of live sand
livestock
-yellow watchman goby
-firefish

Clownfish rearing
- 5 gallon tank
has three morphed fry that are doing great as well as a single frilly mushroom to give them something to possibly host

- 10 gallon tank
where the fry in the 5 gallon will be going in another 3-5 weeks

That's all, I'll have pics up tomorrow

I didn't know there was a SeaWorld in Virginia.

[WRX11]

Originally Posted by Dystinct

I didn't know there was a SeaWorld in Virginia.

[lotusdrift]

I have a 16 gallon bowfront IwanttobeareefbutImnot tank. Beginning stages, I have 3 mushrooms in there
When my camera works again, I might even take pics.


Mrs Lotusdrift.

Im going to get yelled at for not using my own account but I forgot. Deal with it. Till next time.

-Kazkirk

[watson 29]

Originally Posted by Dystinct

I didn't know there was a SeaWorld in Virginia.

I'm in PA

That's really nothing compared to a buddy I have. He's got a 50 tank angel fish beeding setup with over 1,000 different angel fish. (his pairs, juvies, and all that). it's really cool

Mrs Lotusdrift.

Welcome to the very fun and expensive world of reef tanks. luck for you there is lots of people in the HR area and several good places to get fish and corals. My advice is join up at www.reefcentral.com and read up on everything. Personally, I love small tanks and can't wait to see yours. I was gonna get a 29gal biocube, but I got my 50 gal for a lot cheaper. I also advise not getting a job at a pet store that sells saltwater livestock. Your entire check will go right back to them.

[jdchang86]

had red belly's but im looking for some black peru's.
Anyone know where i can get some? pm me

[THE-95-STi]

www.Roozens.com

edit: fixed yes I did, thx

[YtDiamond05]

I think you meant www.roozens.com

[Matt_H]

Originally Posted by YtDiamond05

I think you meant www.roozens.com

Post up your setup!

[YtDiamond05]

Here is my dads setup. Its a 175 gallon bow front. He has all sorts of pumps and skimmers in the tank, even small tanks underneath. I will have to get some better pics of it all, but I have a couple old ones.

[THE-95-STi]

NiCe! if those are old ones I'd love to see what it looks like now, how long has he had it up and running for. The tanks underneather are part of his filtration system(but I' guessing you already knew that).

[Matt_H]

From my trouble shooting.