Sleeper's 55 gallon pics

[sleeper]

Videos. First attempt at these. Got a full tank and one of the tang. Let me know what you think!

Full Tank:


Kole Tang:


Thanks,
Dave

 

[dfurbee]

Hello Dave,
your tank looks lovely. You might want to take the biowheels off the filter, they are a nitrate factory. Like you new corals, and of course your fish.

 

[sleeper]

Some progession pics after one month, a new addition, and some top-downs

RDE's 1st day in tank.

After 1 month

AOG's after first day and losing a battle to an Coral Beauty Angel

After 1 month

New Aussie Duncan's

Top down's

R.I.P. kole tang . Bitter-sweet weekend.

 

[Garth Schafluetzel]

hate to here about the tang and after a few days to get the sun coral settled its been opening around 7 for me lol but when i get home from work it looks amazing. love the duncans though. and let me know if your out my way you can stop by and visit and check everything out i got everything up and running with the 125 still very empty though but im up to just under 250 gal total water volume allot different for me but im realy likeing the build so far

 

[sleeper]

Sounds like you are moving along man, glad the sun coral is doing well for ya. that is about the time that I would feed it as well. Think I am gonna TRY and take a step back for a month or two and let things settle. I think I've only said that once or twice! Congrats on the build.

 

[Garth Schafluetzel]

yeah everything is up and going but im unhappy with it my stand isnt tall enough so befor anything truly major goes on in there im going to pull everything out and raise my stand about a foot so i can actually get to my plumbing and sump witch right now is impossible out of everything i thought of on this one and the planning going into seems like i would have remebered building the stand to fit my old 35 and 29 sump and fuge not a 55 lol but hey what would be the fun if you didnt have to work at it lol

 

[sleeper]

you are not the first to build a stand and not be able to fit the sump/fuge underneath. I bet you won't be the last either.

 

[paintballer768]

Great looking tank sleeper. I like the topdown frogspawn pic. Does your coral beauty pick at corals too? I traded mine into the LFS

 

[sleeper]

Only once, then he went back to the LFS. Took him all of about 1 hour to start eating my newly added zoa's

 

[sleeper]

Update!

Thought I would post some updated pics.
Only thing added is new 4bulb 216wt T5HO and rabbitfish.
Some polyps I got in a trade. But you can see some growth and general tank setup.

Thanks for lookin!

 

[sleeper]

Been a few months since the last FTS. Here it is today. Tank is about 10 months old. Also have a RG and added a few corals one of which is the brain. Thanks.

 

[westcoastreefer]

Looks like a good start.

 

[sleeper]

New Update, Tank is about 14 months now. It has to be low budget since Im in grad school and can't work. New additions are the eagle eyes, the lime grean skirt zoa's (don't have a name on those), superman mushrooms, and the PE's in the last pic.

 

[ahayes13]

looking good. !

 

[Russellaqua]

I like the two separate stacks of rock. It makes it look like you have patch reefs in a lagoon. Very nice.

 

[sleeper]

Thanks for the kind words. I much prefer the two islands of rock too, it allows for more flow and random swimming by my fish.

 

[sciknen]

Very nice.. I wish i start out this nice with my 55g

 

[inactive]

Very nice 55 ! You're just like me.. cant keep my hands out of the tank and off my rocks. Come check my thread out sometime

 

[mgdmirage]

What lighting you have over that? Tank looks good.

 

[sleeper]

I have a 4 bulb T5HO I think 216wt. Its cheapest I could find but it gets the job done for around a hundred bucks. If I had it to do over again I would have gone for a 6 bulb. Thanks everyone for the comments.