Natural Light 68g Lagoon - @su0ng.1

[SeaCo Nico]

Sweet tank

 

[shrimped]

Sweet tank

Thanks!

 

[shrimped]

Complete. Now time for water & salt.

 

[Ssminnow81]

Looks good

 

[shrimped]

Cycling starts now.
The brown rocks are temporary. They were from a mature reef setting now bringing its bacterial goodness here.

Oh and here’s the Oase Biomaster Thermo 350

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[vlangel]

Hey shrimped, I like what you are doing with your tank and your plans for a natural looking tank is very similar to my thoughts on tank. Very nice aquascape! Also your livestock choices are sounding similar as well since I like gorgonians, feather dusters and macro algae. One big difference is my tank is 24" talk since it was originally bought to house my seahorses, but I have learned to make it work. Here's what it looks like from the side.

 

[shrimped]

Hey shrimped, I like what you are doing with your tank and your plans for a natural looking tank is very similar to my thoughts on tank. Very nice aquascape! Also your livestock choices are sounding similar as well since I like gorgonians, feather dusters and macro algae. One big difference is my tank is 24" talk since it was originally bought to house my seahorses, but I have learned to make it work. Here's what it looks like from the side.

Very unique scape you got there. Love it!

 

[vlangel]

Thanks! You can't tell it from that end shot but I tiered the sand bed. On the right side the sand is close to 6"+ deep for a DSB. It's held back with large dense rock, then on the left the sand is only 1". The differing heights of the sand bed gives the tank some dimension plus the higher sand bed made it easier to minimize the intrusiveness of the overflow box. Not everyone is comfortable with a DSB but I have had a good experience using them.

 

[shrimped]

ITS LIVE!!!
Moved everything over from the 7g to here.

Also the Spider Sponge from the 7g was dying due to exposure to air but it fully recovered.

Added: Peach gorg, Yellow Feather Duster, Common Feather Duster, Stenopus Zanzibarus Shrimp, Sunburst Anthias, Female Rhomboid Wrasse, 2 more Yasha Gobies. Now makes a nice group of 4 female yashas. Hope i can get a male to make it 5.

Ignore the ghetto lid, a nicer lid will arrive after i figure out what other things i need to hang off from the tank.

Need to install the lights tomorrow.

A large macro algae shipment arriving next week!

3 of 4 Yashas​

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[shrimped]

In the works…

Real nice hanging bar from iQuatics UK. Every light hanging bar in the US is either ugly or over priced.
Glad I found these from iQuatics.

 

[Ricox]

Love the tank! Looks like a good start!

 

[shrimped]

Love the tank! Looks like a good start!

Thanks!

Got everything hanging bar done.
Need another wire for the third AI Prime.

 

[shrimped]

Update

Got a firefish, 2x coral crouchers, pom pom crab, and a couple coral. Free plume gorg cuz it’s kinda dyin at the lfs.

Rhomboid Wrasse jumped out. Didn’t put any weight on the corners of the make shift lid. My bad. RIP.

Couldn’t find the fourth Yasha goby after the first night of adding the new ones. No signs of it in the tank or on the floor. Guess it’s a trio for now.

Couldn’t pass up the coral crouchers. Each $10. Both eating food passing by. Funky lookin.

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[shrimped]

Real glad the Spider Sponge recovered

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[shrimped]

Found the fourth Yasha just chillin on the opposite side of the tank

 

[shrimped]

One of 3 Eviota atriventris​

 

[shrimped]

YOOOOO I CANT BELIEVE IT!
This was the second fish I’ve added to the tank. Didn’t see it for 2+ weeks so i thought it died! Came out last night to eat a snack like nothing ever happened.


Ptereleostris Kallista
Video:
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[shrimped]

Stonogobiops yasha

Also turns out I got 4 Eviota atriventris​

 

[shrimped]

Damnnn… got a really big update to type up here. Got lots of stuff comin in this week.

Got a few nice coral from 2GC international located in socal:
Zoa mini colony
Red Indophylia
An interesting colored discosoma
Red & Orange Chalice
Wolverine Favia lookin thing
(True Favias don’t exist in the hobby)
Red & Aquamarine Blasto

Largest shipment of macros I ordered delivered this tuesday. This all from Tropical Fish Plus in florida:
Red porcelain crab
Eucheuma sinosum
Heterosiphonia gibbesii
Caulerpa Paspaloides
Syringodium filiforme
Amphiroa sp.
Galaxaura sp.
2x Rhipocephalus phoenix
Mermaid Fan Udotea
Halimeda Monile
Halimeda Discoidea
Penicilus dumetosus
Penicilus capitatus
2x Tunicates
Purple Candelabra gorg
Tan Candelabra gorg
Red ball sponge
and a few Florida ceriths

These from LFS:
Swissguard Basslet
Rockflower Anemone

Lots goin on in this pic​

Swissguard Basslet

Two of Four Eviota atriventris

Random FTS

I don’t remember if i told y’all but there be a Yellow Clown Goby (Gobiodon okinawae) chillin in the tank now.​

 

[Konrad_]

Awesome build! Could you share your AI settings? your tank looks very natural, I am in the process of replacing t5 unit with prime 16