Fishfreak2009's 180 Gallon

Fishfreak2009 · Nov 27, 2022

Slowly making some progress on the 180! Picked up a gallon of muriatic acid over the weekend and diluted it into 3 gallons of water. Cleaned the front and both sides of the tank beautifully letting each side soak for about 1 hr per side. Didn't bother with the back or bottom since it will hopefully be covered in coralline eventually anyways. Next step will be buffing the front and sides to remove any scratches.

Fishfreak2009 · Dec 31, 2022

Took a video of all the fish in the 65 gallon holding tank today while I get the 180 gallon buffed and get the stand built. Hoping to have this tank running by the end of January.

Fishfreak2009 · Jan 7, 2023

Update:

Ended up removing the yellow longnose. He wasn't eating well, even though none of the other fish bothered him. I didn't want him to end up too skinny. Moved him to quarantine to fatten up, then I'll figure out where he's gonna go. No more butterflies for me.

My wife bought me this gorgeous powder blue tang today for the 180! Got him in quarantine. He's already chowing on both Caulerpa and frozen.

ShepherdReefer · Jan 7, 2023

You have some great looking fish.

Fishfreak2009 · Jan 7, 2023

ShepherdReefer said:
You have some great looking fish.

Thank you! For the past couple years I've gone from making specific stocklists, to finding fish that are particularly nice examples of a species (fat, healthy, eating well, etc) and building tanks based on that. I'm lucky enough to have a bunch of tanks, so if I find something I really like I can usually find a tank for it.

Fishfreak2009 · Feb 6, 2023

A few pics from tonight cleaning the holding tank while they wait for me to put up the 180 gallon.

Fishfreak2009 · Mar 11, 2023

Well, we've decided the 180 gallon tank is actually going to be used to upgrade our 75 gallon reef, and the fish that were waiting in here will be going into something at least 96"x24", preferably something 96"x30-36" and at least 24" tall. We'll be watching the local pages for a large used tank at the right price, preferably acrylic. The powder blue also ended up going into our 75 instead of this system, so it will be in the 180 gallon reef. I think we're gonna add a powder brown to the fowlr instead since we already have the blue coloration from the hippo tang.

We also picked up these 2 gorgeous fish, who started quarantine today, to go in the FOWLR. Already eating frozen like champs, starting copper and prazi tomorrow.

Fishfreak2009 · Apr 15, 2023

To update this:

Lost 1 of the bannerfish the first week in quarantine to velvet. Luckily I managed to save the other, which is doing very well. I've also added a pakistani butterfly to the list of fish going in this tank, and it is in quarantine with the bannerfish (and a few other fish for different systems).

We also now have 2 different moray eels in here! A 6" snowflake moray named Tiny, and a 2' zebra moray named Beetlejuice.

I've also attempted adding a few corals with the fish and so far they leave mushrooms, captain jerk palys, various gorgonians, leather corals, kenya trees, and a rainbow bubbletip anemone alone (which the clarkii clowns are very grateful for). They did eat red people eater zoas, GSP, and xenia, and maxi mini carpet anemones though...

Fishfreak2009 · May 5, 2023

We picked up an 8' 240 gallon acrylic, so the fish in these pics are actually going in there. Our 75 gallon mixed reef is going to be upgraded into the 180 gallon.

Here's a couple pics of some of our current quarantine fish. The yellow tail tamarin wrasse and moorish idol will be going in the 180, the rest into the 240.