Rimless 55g sps cube build

[Newb_reefer1]

 

[Newb_reefer1]

Just picked up 2 awesome little berghia nudis to take out those annoying aiptasia I've let grow for the paste month or so...

 

[Newb_reefer1]

Just Picked up a stunning hovens wrasse and he's in acclimation right now. Here's a pic before I put him in the tank and he darts for the sand

 

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Gorgeous....

 

[Newb_reefer1]

thanks hes awesome but wicked fast cant get a good pic of him

 

[Newb_reefer1]

So the berghias didn't do very much... I decided to add a bristle tail file fish to take care if them for good lots of people said they helps out with their aptasia no problems, and I used this as an excuse to buy more wrasse hah :bounce: ended up getting a linespot flasher wrasse terminal male and a female eightline wrasse and another exquisite fairy wrasse after my first didn't make it. they are all finished acclimating and have gone into the tank here's some pics:

Eightline flasher:

Line spot and eightline flasher:

hopefully the destruction of aptasia will commence with my bristle tail filefish:

 

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[zesty]

Love the wrasses and your scape is really awesome! I like it a quite a bit.

 

[Newb_reefer1]

Love the wrasses and your scape is really awesome! I like it a quite a bit.

Thanks ! I love them too hah they are really awesome fish, they are always moving so it's hard to get a picture that really captures their beauty. I am happy with the way my scape turned out I did my best to recreate overhangs / arches that would be naturally occurring so far my wrasse seem to love it too they got the low overhang to take shelter from the high light and flow under and the open arches that make way to the top overhang and always being used by the wrasse. Especially my linespot flasher it's crazy I never knew they were so maneuverable he darts from one side of the tank over the shelf rock and through the little tunnels I created for them with such agility it's awesome

 

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Linespot flasher wrasse showing off - YouTube

There's a link to a video I took of my linespot flasher just before lunch time, it's so funny he does this Everytime I get close to the tank with my desegnated feeding cup he just goes nuts, awesome fish to look at with an equally as great personality

 

[Newb_reefer1]

Switched up the scape a little I wanted to get the big pieces of rock out of my sump and wanted to add more places for the wrasse to hide in the display tank. Took some pics so you guys can check it out

Front of the tank:

Left side:

Right side:

Random fish shots:

 

[Newb_reefer1]

High five to the bristletail filefish ! This little guy has been destroying my aiptasia like nothing I'm so happy ! I took some new pics you can compare to the last pics I took so you can see for yourselves how much he cleared out already there's barely any left now it's awesome

( this rock used to be outright infested and the filefish has since cleared out every single one on it)

 

[Newb_reefer1]

New wrasse came on this morning got them drip acclimating and then into the box they go

 

[s2nhle]

wow, beautiful reef tank especially the wrass and anthias. tagging along as I am currently setting up a 93g cube tank.

 

[Newb_reefer1]

More fish pics, Because who dosent love them right !

Pink margin and his best buddie the naoko fairy

Royal flasher and the pink margin together

Group pictures:

 

[zesty]

Oh how I do love me some wrasses! Those are nice.

 

[Newb_reefer1]

Thanks it's a shame the rubrimarginatus didn't survive, and I think the naoko is a gonner he's hasent been looking so good the past day but I hope he can pull through ! As for the rubrimarginatus I had to get a replacement, stumbled across a pair of them on LA/DD and purchased them on the spot. They are doing really good so far keeping my fingers crossed they just came in this morning sadly no good pics yet. The female is pretty elusive right now residing under the ball of chaeto in the back of the tank however her boyfriend :bigsmile: he is a stud ! A lot larger than the one I had previously and since he's got a girl to get with I'm hoping he can stay all nice and super male like forever haha

 

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So it's has definitely been awhile... A lot has changed & lot stayed the same. I'll go in order of events i remember. I sold some fish to make room for new fish. Added a massive amount of corals to the tank, I'm winning the battle against aiptasia (FINALLY) my water parameters have returned to a normalized state and is currently being tested upon daily to account for drops / fluctuations in my water parameters. Still looking into buying an automatic dosed for ease of use but for now I'll be manually dosing 2 part. Yesterday a friend of mine gave me a brand new 14k Phoenix Hexarc blue DE metal halide bulb for free so I switched out my 3-4 year old coralife 20k bulb and wow I can already see a huge difference. I love the crisp white look with overtones of blue, looks so much better than the washed out blue everywhere from the coraline bulb I used to run. Early morning Full tank pictures with new rock scape, corals, and fish to follow. ( just turned in the lights so everything isn't out all the way yet )
Fish in the tank currently :
- potters leopard wrasse
-aiptasia filefish
- Scotts fairy wrasse
-exquisite fairy wrasse
-pink margin fairy wrasse
- Fiji Christmas wrasse

https://imgur.com/a/0TTk4

 

[s2nhle]

Wow, what is happen to anthias?

 

[Newb_reefer1]

Wow, what is happen to anthias?

They were sold to make room for more wrasse along with the clown fish from earlier post lol