Carlitosway 55gallon conversion

[Carlitosway84]

Ok guys so I finally took the plunge and began converting my 55 fish only after some back and forth of which fish was going to keep and etc. in midst of redoing my sons tank for the nano in 90 I purchased a whole box of real reef rock and pulled all of my fossilized corals. As of right now only have a few fish and coral.
Here's the before:

And after adding rock today:

Sorry for the iPhone pics, will try and get some better shots with my Nikon D3200.

So far this is the list of livestock:
Black Tang
Declevis Butterfly
Snowflake Ocellaris
Banghi cardinal
Carpenters wrasse

RBTA
Green ricordea Yuma
Frag of gsp

 

[Carlitosway84]

Made some new additions....

Multicolor angel

Juv Achilles tang

Juv mystery wrasse - Marshall's island

Marshall's islands flame angel

Pair of helfrichi fire fish, still a little shy

 

[Carlitosway84]

Some of the original guys before the conversion

 

[reid429]

Lot of big fish for a 55

 

[fishroomlady]

that butterfly is beautiful!

 

[Carlitosway84]

Lot of big fish for a 55

The black tang and the butterfly are a little big but have plans for a 120-180 in the next six months. Had them both for over 10yrs and had them since juvs in a previous 225 and have a hard time parting with them.
Everyone else is about 2-3 inch max

 

[Carlitosway84]

Here are a couple full tank shots to put some perspective on the size of the fish. I tend to run a larger bioload due to having surplus filtration and do regular 30-50% water changes. All the pref pics were taken as close as possible to try and capture the beauty of each fish.

 

[Carlitosway84]

that butterfly is beautiful!

Thank you. One of my favs. Was worried about picking on coral... So far so good!

 

[Carlitosway84]

Hey there.... Been a while since my last post. Things have been absolutely crazy on the home front. But have some changes coming soon. Just recvd this today....

New sump coming this week too!! More updates to come!!

 

[Carlitosway84]

Before

After

Now time for some new lights. Should have some new LEDs in the net week or so and hopefully get this tank into grow mode.

 

[Carlitosway84]

Been a while since been around. Figured I update my build with some recent pics. Hope you guys like where the tank is going!!

 

[Carlitosway84]

So went to a local frag swap yesterday with very little intentions to buy much but ended up with some nice new frags that will need to photograph soon and update. But had even less of intentions to buy new equipment. Needless to say got myself a new bubble magus curve 5 and wow what a skimmer. Was running a cadlights pls 100 and had been having some trouble with it and giving up. Timing I guess is everything, got a great deal on the skimmer and less than 24 hours later have great amount of skimmate. Can't imagine what it's going to pull out in a week!

 

[Carlitosway84]

So decided to do a full breakdown of my system and its inhabitants, been needing to do this for a while.

 

[Carlitosway84]

Tank details

Equipment:
55 gallon All Glass aquarium w/ built in overflow
NextReef NRS-24 Sump
NextReef stick on refugium w deep blue solar flare micro led 6700K light
Bubble Magus Curve 5
Jebao DC6000 return pump
TLF Phosban 150 Reactor
Coralife Turbotwist 9w UV
Jebao DP-4 Dosing pump
Jebao RW-4 x2
Chinese Black Box LED lighting x2

Approx 60 lbs of Real Reef Rock
40 lbs LiveSand

Fish:
Black tang
Archilles tang
Chevron tang
Flame angel
Snowflake Occellaris Clown
Helfrich firefish
Green mandarin goby
Bluespot jawfish
Tiny juv emperor angel
Diamond wrasse

Corals:
Toxic pie chalice
Red blasto wellsi
Supernova blasto wellsi
Orange torch
Purple/green Bicolor branching hammer
Florida Ricordea
Ricordea Yuma
St Thomas bounce Shroom
Blue German montipora digitada
Montipora spongoides
Montipora setosa
Superman encrusting montipora
Mint green Pavona
Circus circus Acan
Fire and Ice acan
Joker acan
Orange acan
Duncan coral
Gsp
Metallic green trachophylia brain
Red lobophyllia brain
Green sinularia
Mint green trumpet
Wide variety of Zoas not sure the names of lol

Inverts:
2 - sand sifting stars
Tiger tail cucumber
Astrea snails
Nasariuss snails
Scarlet hermit crabs
Rose bubble anemone

 

[Revskid]

Beautiful fish!

 

[Carlitosway84]

Thank you!

 

[Carlitosway84]

Updated FTS

 

[Carlitosway84]

Haven't update in a while.... New thread going to be coming soon!! Upgrading to a 90 gallon hopefully this weekend! Super stoked!!