ritter6788's 40 breeder

SDREEFS · Jun 11, 2013

Nice build. SPS Tanks are my fav! Also nice BTA

VB68 · Jun 11, 2013

Like your aquascape

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ritter6788 · Jun 11, 2013

Haha. I thought this thread would disappear! Funny this was brought up because I added a few sps tonight. So much to update.

It's been slowly coming along. I had more cyano than I've ever seen in a tank from the pukani rock. Despite all of that I placed a Bonsai frag in and it's been doing good for the past few weeks. I moved an acan colony that my copperband butterfly was picking at in my 75 over too and it's looked good so I'm adding more sps now. I hit the tank with chemi clean to rid it of cyano and it looks good now but I have some thin hair algae all over.

I picked up a beautiful lyretail anthia pair and the male died in QT. I had a friend of mine give me another male lyretail but I think my female has already started to change to male and they fought like mad in the QT. I had to separate them so I broke QT and added the new male to this tank. The fish got covered in ich so long story short, I have no fish in this tank yet until I can get all the others sorted out and leave this tank fallow for a while. I'll likely put one lyretail in my 75 and the other in the 40.

I've been keeping the BTAs for this tank in a 30 gallon cube for a while and after much thought I can't get sps out of my head. I just don't have the love for nems like I do for hard corals. The Sherman rose died on me for reasons I can't explain so it made my stocking decision easy.

I'm in love with the Maxspect razor on this tank and the way is automatically dims. I have it set from 0-100% and back again and I get every color from 10,000k to 20,000k with one fixture with no timers or controllers.

My skimmer crapped out on me for the second time and I'm not bothering to fix it again. I'm using an old modified Sealife skimmer until I get something else to replace it.

I added tonight,

Copps pink pocillapora
ORA blue Milli
Copps hulk Milli
Tubs pink jade
Tyree sunset Monti
Oregon tort
Unknown pink and green acro (looks like red planet but more pink than red)
Unknown acro (looks like pearlberry)
ORA neon sinularia

I have more sps to add but I'm waiting to see how these do.

ritter6788 · Jul 24, 2013

Finally got some fish in the tank.

A few of the sps bleached. I think it was because there were no fish and no feeding. I'm testing a few frags again now. I also got a McCoskers and a yellow wrasse also but they weren't feeling photogenic today.

skinz78 · Jul 24, 2013

Sweet looking Wrass, the tank is looking good too!

nelson.jdautobody · Jul 24, 2013

seems like everyone builds own stands these days, and they always look nicer and more durable then what you can get at a store, i need to quit being so lazy....next tank for sure

ritter6788 · Jul 24, 2013

The other wrasses decided to appear AFTER I put the camera away.

Aquaph8 · Jul 24, 2013

Nice wrasses Gabe.

SeahorseKeeper · Jul 24, 2013

The tank is looking great! Love the wrasses!!

clownfishbreeder101 · Jul 25, 2013

whats the fish in the last pic also how many pounds of rock are in it now

ritter6788 · Jul 25, 2013

Thanks guys! These wrasses are addicting.

clownfishbreeder101 said:
whats the fish in the last pic also how many pounds of rock are in it now

That is a McCosker's Flasher Wrasse. There is 25 pounds of Pukani rock in the display (dry weight, not sure what it weights wet) and about 5 pounds misc. live rock in the sump.

ritter6788 · Jul 25, 2013

Unintentional additions...I added 2 female Lyretail anthias to this tank. My plan was to have a M/F/F trio in my 75 but after a couple of attempts I'm giving up. These anthias begin to change to male the second there is no male present. I bought a M/F pair from Petco and the male died in QT. I added added another male within a week but the female in my QT had already started to change to male and they fought. The new male carpet surfed. I added the remaining female to my 75 and it has changed into a submale. I bought 2 more absolute females and within 3 days of QT one of them is already starting to look like a male. I tried to introduce them to my submale anyway and they were trying to kill each other through the acclimation box so I decided it was best to leave things be and move the new pair to this tank.

revhtree · Jul 25, 2013

Tank is looking excellent. Love the new fish.

c_healy · Jul 25, 2013

Very nice tank!

I've been wanting to get a wrasse for my 40. Currently just houses two platinum clowns.

Genesis Corals · Jul 25, 2013

Great photos of the wrasses. I find my SPS start to bleach when my alk drops, maybe something to check on.

ritter6788 · Jul 26, 2013

Thank you all for the compliments.

Genesis Corals said:
Great photos of the wrasses. I find my SPS start to bleach when my alk drops, maybe something to check on.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm an alk testing freak. I've had so many problems with alk over the years that I test it far more than a normal person probably would. It's either from lack of nutrients, too much led light or the tank is just too young for sps. I'm experimenting to find out which.

I evicted my aggressive clown from the 75 and put her and the male in this tank. I think I'm done on fish stocking for this tank. The Lyretail anthia put the mean clown in her place.

[video=youtube;RE3jrZr97Vs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE3jrZr97Vs[/video]

ritter6788 · Sep 29, 2013

I had this custom made from The Alternative Reef. It's a rock formation that holds sand for my wrasse to sleep in. They did an outstanding job and I really like it in the tank. I haven't seen anyone with one in their tank but it works great for sand sleeping wrasses in a bare bottom tank.