JamesL

Bump. Will offer the complete setup to ARC members for $200.

Fantastic photos! I echo everything beefytang said. You take much better aquatic pictures with your point-n-shoot than I do with my digital SLR.

I actually set up my new tank with jawfish in mind. I made sure I put the live rock in first, so it is already sitting on the bottom of the tank, then filled with sand. So they can dig away and not cause a rock slide. But the tube is a great idea.. I have read about other tanks doing that.

The Petland in Southpark Meadows did not look to carry any fish. In fact, the store was super tiny. It make me sad, as my first job was at a Petland in Toledo.

They might have been including the handful of Petsmarts (or is it Petcos .. I can never remember) that carry saltwater fish....

Last time I was at Gallery of Pets (over a year ago), they seemed to be getting out of the Saltwater critters. There is a store in New Branfeuls called Darby's Tropicals. I haven't been there yet, but I should check it out some day as it is as close to Buda as the north Austin LFS.

That is funny! It really makes me want a jawfish again. Aquadome didn't have any yesterday, else I would have gotten one.

Thanks for the info. I was thinking/hoping the smallest frag was a birdsnest. I would love to get some montipora from you some time. I don't have much to trade at the moment, as I am trying to stock up my 75g with the corals from my 24g I do have toadstool leathers ... the mother colony keeps dropping off pieces, and I keep attaching them to rocks and letting them grow out.

I picked up a few new additions from Aquadome today. I got two sea cucumbers and a six-line wrasse. In addition, I thought I would try my hand out with some cheap (and small) SPS frags. I will need our SPS guru's to help me re-identify them. I didn't spend a lot of time with the pictures, so they are a little blurry. Here is one of the SPS frags: And here are two pictures of the second plug, which actually had three separate frags on it: That tiny frag looks like it has blue polyps. And here are two pictures of the LTA I got from britfish. Clowns are ignoring it, but my anemone porcelean crab loves it!

I would have never thought of something so simple ... but for a FOWLR, that would probably work great!

I just read on a blog somewhere about a person setting up an LED array on his reef tank. I thought it was Nano-reef, but a quick search is not coming up with the article. I will keep looking... I think the LED arrays are cost saving on energy used, but are expensive to buy... Edit: Found it! Here is a link into this guy's tank blog where he got the LED array for x-mas. Edit2: After re-looking at it.. not really that helpful Just kinda talks about the array... nothing technical.

Holy smokes, that is one serious filter! Glad you found the cause of the hair algae

Wow... the tank looks great! I need to really get cracking on stocking my 75g to keep up with y'all

Just think of it is a more room for more corals & fish Looking forward to seeing the new tank!

Taking this off the market, have thought of a non-fish related use for this.

Nice

I am kinda of looking at one of those hand-on-the-back (HOB) refugium for my new larger tank. I am looking at the EcoSystem Pro Series 60, but for the life of me can not find what the input to the device looks like. I really want a surface-skimming input. Anyone know if this model has a surface skimmer on it? Thanks. -James

You sure Gabriel didn't sneak over to your tank with a razor blade to help things along?

Ok, as promised, here are some (pretty quick, and not-so-good) pictures. In the beginning there was not much (but a crooked tripod): Then there was more rock, plus the critters from the 24g tank: The left island, where most new corals will go: The right island, or "exile island", where the tank invading GSP is being contained: And a few pictures of the naked clowns I got for the tank: (Actually, I think it is the same fish in both pictures ). The only thing not pictured is the LT anemone I got from britfish, that is sitting at the top of exile island.

Ok, I have pictures... but I have not loaded them up on the interwebs, so this is just a post to clear out the text portion. I broke down my 24g Aquapod and moved everything to the new 75g. Here are the specs: - 75g traditional tank, with glass hoods. - 300W Metal Halide fixture (two 150W 20,000K bulbs) - about 60 lbs "new" baserock and live rock, plus maybe 10-15 lbs from the old tank - Two Koralia 3, and one Koralia 1 (because I had it laying around) - Magnum HOT filter... this is going to be replaced soon by some type of real wet/dry system - Lots-o-sand ... planning on a jawfish down the road On the stocking side for fish: - 1 Yellow Clown Goby - 1 Yellow Watchman Goby - 2 Naked Clownfish - 4 Talbot's Damselfish Inverts: - 2 Peppermint Shrimp - 1 Tongo Conch - 1 Red-Foot Conch - 1 Red Thorny Starfish - Assortment of snails and hermits Corals: - 1 Long Tentacle Anemone (just got from britsifh) - GSP (relegated to "exile" island... you will see it once I get pictures) - Toadstool leathers corals (moth colony + offspring) - Green candy cane - Green frogspawn - Brown frogspawn - Galaxia - Some zoa's - Orange ricordias - Blue/green ricordias - Tongue coral So that is the basics... will get some pictures up here soon.

I just saw all of the corals today and they look great!

Wow! Great looking tank! You are seriously making me reconsider my decision to do a more "open" look in my 75g tank I really love the "full" look of yours.

Skunk shrimps normally are less shy than say peppermint shrimps. I hate to say it, but if you haven't seen him in a few days, he might be a goner (and the clean up crew might have "cleaned" him up). When I had a skunk cleaner shrimp, I normally say him within a day of molting (and I almost always saw the molt).

Your tank was awesome when you had the meeting at your house. For the most part, people where broke apart into groups talking to each other... so I don't really think the size of a tank matters a ton (ok, I know I would not have wanted to have it at my house when I only had the 24g tank ). Tours would be tough, especially since people on this board are scattered from as far north as Temple, and south past Buda/Kyle. My suggestion for a tank tour would be to break it apart into a specific region (say n. austin) to contain the driving for people. I have done pond tours in the past, and it gets tiring tracking through both north and south austin areas. Just tossing in my thoughts....

Sometimes the Yellow Watchman Gobies are just elusive. I can go days without seeing mine, then one day he just pops out of the rockwork. The suggestion of food is a great one... that always entices fishes out of hiding