NotTheFace 57G Oceanic

NotTheFace · Oct 31, 2011

Hi all, I Upgraded my 28g Nanocube HQI to a 57g Oceanic February 2011.

Lights - Two 42W Ecoxotic Retro 36 LED System, One 24â€ Reef Brite Blue LED.
Skimmer - Bubble Magus NAC 7 Cone Skimmer
Return Pump - EHEIM Compact Plus 5000 Pump
Tank Dimensions -36 x 18 x 21

The above pictures was how it looked for the first few weeks.
I used to rocks and sand from my old tank that at that point wasn't doing too well had a lot of cyano.

This is what happened after introducing that stuff into my new tank.

I was testing the tank and my style (laziness) of reefkeeping had a few cheap sps frags die on me, I bought a gorgonian looked great for about a week but ended up getting too much micro algae on it, so I moved into the cave on the right, it's starting to come back now. 8 Months later this is what my tank looks like now.

My new nem: colorado sunburst (jgonz lineage):

VelasCorals · Nov 1, 2011

That nem is awesome! I've been looking for something like that.

revhtree · Nov 1, 2011

Looks awesome!

shells4 · Nov 1, 2011

Nice tank. I like your aquascape and I really like your anemone!!

NotTheFace · Nov 1, 2011

Thanks! It's been fun keeping and growing things out. I keep thinking I want to remove some of the rock but maybe I'll just wait till I get a larger tank

I keep thinking about going up to a 180g Peninsula.

NotTheFace · Nov 1, 2011

Ah I forgot to add my stock list. I'll put the fish in the order I got them.

I have a pair of Darwin Occelaris They are two years old I got them as babies from a club member that was breeding them. (from my old tank)
One Tailspot Blenny (also from the old tank)

One Solarensis Wrasse \
Two Ochre Striped Cardinals/ Got these three from a guy tearing down his tank.

One Carpenter's Wrasse\ Picked these two up a month or two after the solar/cardinals.
One Filamented Wrasse/ I got the two flasher wrasses at the same time. The original idea was to get a pair of filamented but it turned out the "female" was a carpenter's I don't mind too much though.

One Adornatus Fairy Wrasse: My last fish. I was a sucker and visited a friend who works servicing tanks and does some retail on the side. I was going to buy a dendro from him and he some extra fish that he ordered sitting in QT. So I was really into the look (looks kind of like a Koi / Wrasse hybrid) and bought it off him.

Corals:
Pulsing Xenia - Love these guys
Stereonepthia - Turning kind of green.
Assorted rainbow acans - they shifted to be more red/orange/yellow
Clove Polyps - Yellow/green
Green polyp toadstool - Like Tyree
Bad *** blasto - Got it as a pinky finger nail size frag, now it's the size of a 50 cent piece and has five babies. It's purple/blackish base with an electric blue ring. In the last FTS it's bottom center to the right of the orange Lobo.
Gold Torch Coral - Got a great deal on a two head piece
Frogspawn - I like LPS what can I say.
Couple Mushrooms - of the hairy variety.
Armor of God
Devil Armor
Nightmares
Paly Grandis - One green, one cinnamon
Pink and green zoa
Nice colony of eagle eye zoas - bland in day light, glows in blue light, has a couple morphs also with yellow mouths.
A big rock with a variety of zoas and palys and some teal star polyps
A single headed dendro
A nice chunk of sun corals
an Orange Yuma
Hammer Coral
Asst. Ricordeas

ORA Sea Urchin - Lytechinus variegates
Colorado Sunburst BTA

aznpg · Nov 1, 2011

looks nice man. that nems color is crazy

revsgirl · Nov 3, 2011

Looks great!!

NotTheFace · Nov 4, 2011

Small ric garden focused on a feather duster. This rock and feather duster has been with me for two years.

Mike&Terry · Nov 4, 2011

Nice tank and that nem is awesome! It is refreshing to see you care enough about your fish to cover your tank with a screen! :bigsmile:

NotTheFace · Nov 4, 2011

My Adornatus Wrasse (cool photobucket tool

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NotTheFace · Nov 4, 2011

Red Head Solon Fairy wrasse

Unicorrs · Nov 4, 2011

you did this in photobucket? wow
great tank btw, I love your rock setup, good job! :xd:

NotTheFace · Nov 4, 2011

Photobucket has a tool that puts a black and white layer of the picture on top of the color picture. Then a brush that erases the black and white portion wherever you want. It literally took about 30 seconds for each picture