75 Gallon Peaceful (Mostly) Reef

[Callieach]

Thought I would share our 75 gallon mostly peaceful reef tank.

Equipment:

75 gallon high tank
10 gallon banshee BioFuge sump
Eshopps overflow box
Jebao PP Series Wavemaker (PP-8)
Aqua Excel In-sump Skimmer (Can't remember the model...)
2 Mars Aqua LED Lights

Chaeto and Pods in abundance in the sump. Chaeto gets culled during weekly 10% water changes.

Fish Stocking:

1 Coral Beauty Angel
1 Banana Fish
1 Clarkii Clownfish
1 Gold Stripe Maroon Clownfish
1 Platinum Longfin Clownfish
4 Fancy Ocellaris Longfin Clownfish
1 Porcupine Puffer
1 BiColor Goatfish
1 Saltwater Molly
2 Kaudern's Cardinals
1 Scooter Blenny/Dragonet
1 Tomini "FireFin" Tang

Inverts:

Various snails and crabs (nessarus snails mainly)
1 Purple Hiatian Anemone
3 Rainbow Bubble Tip Anemones
1 Green Bubble Tip Anemone
1 Mint Green Long Tentacle Anemone
3 Cleaner Shrimp
2 Peppermint Shrimp
2 Rock Flower Anemones
1 Clam (purple/red variety)

Corals:

1 Red Scolly
2 Meat Corals
2 Long Tentacle Leathers (1 is a small frag that'll go in to the 60 gallon when ready)
2 Trachys
1 Green Goni Colony
1 Long Tentacle Green Goni Colony
1 Green Duncan Colony
1 Blue Duncan Colony
1 Purple Duncan Colony
1 Cabbage Leather
1 Green Hairy Mushroom Colony
3 Green Mushrooms (individuals)
Green Star Polyps (2 varieties)
BiColor Hammer Colony (4 heads so far)
2 Zoa frag colonies (1 is bright red, 1 is a combo of brown and green)
1 Blastomussa frag (1 main head, with 3 new growing heads)

 

[MERKEY]

Hello and welcome!

Great tank and thank you for sharing!!!!

 

[BlennyTime]

Looks nice!! How long have you had it set up?

 

[Callieach]

Looks nice!! How long have you had it set up?

8 months.

 

[Callieach]

Hello and welcome!

Great tank and thank you for sharing!!!!

Thank you!

 

[sp1187]

welcome to the show.

 

[Chrisfish]

Welcome to R2R, nice looking tank

 

[sfin52]

Nice looking tank. How do all the clowns get along

 

[Callieach]

welcome to the show.

Thank you!

Welcome to R2R, nice looking tank

Thank you!

 

[Callieach]

Nice looking tank. How do all the clowns get along

Only issue we have is occasionally the platinum gets in to a tiny tiff with the gold stripe. But, the gold stripe is a nem wh*re and likes to sneak in to the nem that the platinum has claimed. No issues otherwise, though. Everyone gets along well. They all eat together and congregate for fishy discussions (Rusty the gold stripe is usually right in the middle of the convo, too).

 

[Devaji]

loven those big LPS. I am a fan of them for sure.

 

[Devaji]

anyone nip the fins of the long fin clown? I have always been curious about them.
love the porcupine puffers such happy litlte guys remind me of a dog.

at some point it will need a bigger tank but till then enjoy him in the reef, oh how does he do in there anyway? does he /she not go after the inverts??

 

[Callieach]

anyone nip the fins of the long fin clown? I have always been curious about them.
love the porcupine puffers such happy litlte guys remind me of a dog.

at some point it will need a bigger tank but till then enjoy him in the reef, oh how does he do in there anyway? does he /she not go after the inverts??

I know he'll need a bigger tank eventually. Planning on upgrading this one to a 125 eventually if I can find a good deal on a setup (on disability, so budget is limited). When we first introduced him, he "tasted" every snail/crab shell he could find; but they're not big enough for him to munch on, so he leaves them alone. And he's actually buddied up to one of the cleaner shrimp. He'll go up to it and just sit next to it on the rock work and look around like, "You like this view? I like this view. This is a nice view." Lol. But, he's also very well fed... Done intentionally to prevent him from munching away on things in the tank.

The only nipping that happens on the rare occasion is between the platinum and the gold stripe... But that's only because the gold stripe likes to try and sneak in to the green bubble tip that the platinum has claimed (nevermind that he's claimed one of the rainbows and the green long tentacle). But they only argue for a minute or two before separating to their own nems and forgetting about it for a month or so.