Gage Lyons-McCracken
New Member
Hello R2R Community! My name is Gage, and I'm new to the community. I have been in the fish hobby since I was a child. During college a breed Cichlids for a LFS and grew more in love with the hobby. Over the years I have fallen out of the hobby but it was rekindled when I was given a 55 gallon freshwater tank. I have had that tank up and running for a few years now and was looking for a new challenge so I decided to enter the world if reefing. I decided to purchase a tank that was proven and came across a passionate reefer who was unfortunately moving and unable to take his tank. I happily welcomed the tank and it's inhabitants into my home and wanted to introduce the tank to this outstanding community.
The tank is 75 gallons with a modified 20 gallon sump. Two Hydro power heads create the circulation within the tank. Water flows into the refugium portion of the sump. In the second chamber is where you'll find the heart of the sump, a SC Aquarium SCA-303 skimmer. Water then flows across Seachem Matrix biological rocks and clean water is returned through the pump.
Some notable inhabitants of this reef tank includes a breeding pair of Misbar Ocellaris Clownfish banded with a bubble tip anemone. A blue and yellow Tang. Always camped out under the coral together is an orange Spotted watchman Goby always next to the Tiger Brittle Starfish. There is a pistol shrimp who never comes out but he seems to be a strong independent shrimp wanting nothing to do with the watchman. Recently I took in a Red Scooter Blenny who always wants to be the star of the show and his shy buddy, a Tomini tang. All across the bottom of the tank you'll find members of the cleanup crew including red and blue Legged hermits and trochus snails.
The well established coral within the tank includes many green button polyps, large green and red mushrooms, with two large toadstool leather as the center piece. Incrusted on a separating rock is what appears to be a large colony of watermelon favia. Some new additions including a frogspawn, galaxia and mint pavona. Live rock is spread throughout creating caves for the fish to retreat to. A combination of crushed coral and live sand make up the base substrate. Several other colonies of coral are spread throughout, but I will hold off on listing those to another post.
I hope you have enjoyed my tour of the tank, let me know what you think. I will keep you all informed on updates to this tank, and to all of you that made it this far, happy reefing!
The tank is 75 gallons with a modified 20 gallon sump. Two Hydro power heads create the circulation within the tank. Water flows into the refugium portion of the sump. In the second chamber is where you'll find the heart of the sump, a SC Aquarium SCA-303 skimmer. Water then flows across Seachem Matrix biological rocks and clean water is returned through the pump.
Some notable inhabitants of this reef tank includes a breeding pair of Misbar Ocellaris Clownfish banded with a bubble tip anemone. A blue and yellow Tang. Always camped out under the coral together is an orange Spotted watchman Goby always next to the Tiger Brittle Starfish. There is a pistol shrimp who never comes out but he seems to be a strong independent shrimp wanting nothing to do with the watchman. Recently I took in a Red Scooter Blenny who always wants to be the star of the show and his shy buddy, a Tomini tang. All across the bottom of the tank you'll find members of the cleanup crew including red and blue Legged hermits and trochus snails.
The well established coral within the tank includes many green button polyps, large green and red mushrooms, with two large toadstool leather as the center piece. Incrusted on a separating rock is what appears to be a large colony of watermelon favia. Some new additions including a frogspawn, galaxia and mint pavona. Live rock is spread throughout creating caves for the fish to retreat to. A combination of crushed coral and live sand make up the base substrate. Several other colonies of coral are spread throughout, but I will hold off on listing those to another post.
I hope you have enjoyed my tour of the tank, let me know what you think. I will keep you all informed on updates to this tank, and to all of you that made it this far, happy reefing!
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