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mike wilson

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Hey reefers just joined r2r to have another source of learning and to see all the great tanks. I have been in the hobby with my wife for just over a year now. As most new people we tried to start small with a standard 29g and found out really fast that did not have enough room for the first we wanted to have plus the Corals. So 3 months later we got a sort cheap 55g with stand. This gave us more room for fish and Corals but we soon found out this tank has the most horrible foot print for rock placement plus we had no sump and did not have great luck with keep nitrates down. This partially had to do with lack of knowledge not just having only a hob and a skimmer. So 3 months went by and we got lucky and where given a 90g drilled tank with a stand built right to be able to house a 50g breeder for a sump. This tank has had its ups and downs just like most we had cyano problems and GHA(still fighting this crap but we are winning). There is about 140 lbs rock between the display and sump. We have 2 Chinese black box LEDs over the tank ran at 60% blue 30% whites. We have 3 wavemakers right now tell we get our 2nd jebao rw8. Koralia 1500, koralia 565, and jebao rw8. Eshopps psk 150 in sump skimmer. Filter sock and chaeto, fern caulerpia and bubble caulerpia for filtraion. The tank is now 8 months old about to hit 9 months.
Live stock
2 blue reef chromis
1 blue green chromis
1 coral beauty angel
1 tomini tang
1 male lyre tail anthias
2 female anthias
1 banghai cardinal
1 ruby red dragonet
2 Black and white ocellaris clownfish
1 yellow tail damsel
1 sea serpent star
1 cleaner shrimp
1 emerald crab
Snails and hermits
3 Rbta
1 Gbta
2 orange/green bta

Corals I don't know all there hobby names so I will just post pics of them.
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Awesome stuff my friend.
Just some washed out pics but with some advice from reefers here it will improve soon enough.
Welcome to a great forum.
 
Awesome stuff my friend.
Just some washed out pics but with some advice from reefers here it will improve soon enough.
Welcome to a great forum.
Yeah all these pics are from my droid max cell. I need to get some gel filters and a good camera
 
Yeah all these pics are from my droid max cell. I need to get some gel filters and a good camera[/QUOTE
Great tank! Amazon has camera gels for super cheap. I got a set of 20 for about $7. The oranges and brownish yellows help the most.
 
That is an awesome tank, welcome to the community!
 
Welcome home, you'll love it here!

Love the corals I wish I could keep zoas long term!
 
Welcome to R2R;)
 
Why can't you keep them long term?

I think it's honestly two factors:

1) laziness
- I tend to cater my setups to fish, especially rare, ornamental, or expensive fish. As such I spend less time testing for parameters than most people with corals. I have it down to a science without tests for fish now over many years, but corals not as much.

2) inhabitants
- I keep angels and some butterflies in my tanks with zoas. This is often not best practices. I suspect the reason they slowly disappear is also a result of them being eaten or picked at.

Both factors likely contribute.
 
Yeah that might do that lol. I have had one frag of zoas just dissolve on me but I think it was the change of light they went from t5 to my leds
 
Very nice tank. The toadstool and hairy shroom colony??? on the left side look spectacular.
 

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