Jourdy's 90 Gallon Mixed Reef

lps1212 · Feb 25, 2014

jourdy said:
As for pictures, here are some more:

Some fishes:

My clown pair lays eggs every 2 weeks!

Mystery Wrasse

Blotchy Anthias

By the way, I forgot to answer a question asked regarding my bioload.

I would consider my bioload to be pretty high! I also feed a lot as well whenever I am home.

I have the ff:
2 yellow assessors
2 clowns
1 mandarin goby
2 orchid dottyback
1 blotchy anthias
1 purple tang 1.5"
1 blue tang 2.5"
1 flame angel about 1.5"
1 triggerfish
1 blood red shrimps
I used to have lots of cleaner shrimps but I gave them away because they irritate my corals

I like to keep tiny fish! The blue throat triggerfish is an exception - it was a rescue from a friend who dismantled his tank. I used to be okay with him as he is very cute but I have now been thinking of moving him to a friend's 600 gallon tank. I just saw it poop and it is HUUUUGE.

my good friend kingator had told me about a tank he saw on goggle before saying its a crazy looking zoa dominated tank. I didn't really pay mind to him but now I can see I was clearly wrong in not doing my own research this tank is a true :beauty: and I'm speechless one expression is all I can show :dribble: tagging along for further updates thanks for sharing here on R2R 1smile1

chrisryherd · Feb 25, 2014

are you only using LED lighting or are you using any T5 or any thing with them?

jourdy · Feb 25, 2014

Thanks for the compliments!

My lights are purely Radions. No additional lighting.
I do not feed my zoas anything at all

To prove I don't have ONLY zoas in my tank:

Rhizo

Supersun

Brain

I feed the Supersun and Rhizo pellets every time I remember to! Haha. I think that's around 1-2x per week.
Will take more pictures soon!

jourdy · Feb 25, 2014

By the way, wanted to share zoas that appeared on my tank before.

Do you see the grafted zoa?

Closer look:

It's half Bambam, half King Midas. I have no idea how it happened, it occurred naturally.
They grew to about 5 polyps before dying when they fell on the sand. :cry: It stung a lot!

kingator · Feb 25, 2014

jourdy said:
By the way, wanted to share zoas that appeared on my tank before.

Do you see the grafted zoa?

Closer look:

It's half Bambam, half King Midas. I have no idea how it happened, it occurred naturally.
They grew to about 5 polyps before dying when they fell on the sand. :cry: It stung a lot!

simply amazing ,,,,,so basicaly u just do water changes and feed fish ...are u running a refugium ?

J Rog · Feb 25, 2014

Amazing! Would love to know the settings on your radions! :rockon:

MrMo · Feb 26, 2014

Simply stunning! such a beautiful array of colors and zoas.

revhtree · Feb 26, 2014

More!!!!!

MrMo · Feb 26, 2014

revhtree said:
More!!!!!

Amen to that! lol

ETORRES477 · Feb 26, 2014

Wow!!!

I am not new to marine husbandry, I ran a fowlr out of a 46 gallon bowfront for the last 3 years with the intention of eventually going to a reef format. I have just finished putting my build together for my 150 gallon marineland dual flow tank when I just got my twin maxspect 160w 16k units. Your tank is what I strive for my tank to look like. What beautiful growth and health your tank exudes. GOOD LUCK!!!

Mr. D · Feb 26, 2014

I love a zoa/paly dominated tank. Do you supplement anything right now?

jourdy · Feb 27, 2014

Okay, more pictures!
Thanks for all the nice comments!
For those asking, nope I am not supplementing anything right now

A little more something about my *dubious* husbandry.

This is my frag tank.
I alternate the corals in my main tank with the frag tank, depending on my mood. It sounds silly, but I seem to enjoy the hobby more when I get to actively participate in which corals to choose at the moment. I sometimes mix and match every month or so - depending on my mood.

Spiny brain in the frag tank

Acan Echinata

FTS of what my tank currently looks like. Lots of clutter in the bottom part of the tank, I just recently swapped out some corals from the Main tank and frag tank. Haven't found space for them yet.

Hammer and Frogspawn

As you can see.. growth of the Sunflower zoas is really dominating my tank:

Started from a half inch brown frag.

What SPS is this?

Bubble coral deflating (time to bring out the tentacles!) before dusk

Spiny brain - haven't found space for it yet so it's just on the sand in front of the tank

Desert Orchid · Feb 27, 2014

Your corals are spectacular and for a frag tank is most amazing! People strive to have a display tank that looks that good! In the bottom photo what is the red coral to the upper right of the brain?? Looks like a red bubble coral... is that possible?