Wolfenstein's DSA 105 Tank build

[RUGDOG]

Looks great! You are doing the best thing that most do not. SLOWLY! You have more Invested in water containers than most folks put in equipment.

 

[wolfenstein87]

Lol unfortunately we rented those because we didn't have the means to hold 130 gallons of water. We are planning to buy bigger storage bins for fresh and salt water. Right now we have a designated container for RO/DI water that we use for this tank, my nano and saltwater. We do have several 5 gallon jugs that are designated for fresh saltwater and waste water.

We wanted to make sure this tank had most of the kinks worked out, and that we didn't repeat some of the same mistakes from our previous tank.

 

[RUGDOG]

I found nice water storage tanks at tractor supply.

 

[wolfenstein87]

Long time without a post and we have added a bunch of stock to the tank. I'm trying to get a buddy over to take some sweet pictures of everything. Here is what we got:

2 Duncan colonies
Jacko lantern leptosaris
Green/purple frogspawn
Gold octo frogspawn
Gold hammer
Aussie elegance
Aussie blasto
Blasto merletti
Red Aussie blasto
Rainbow lobo
3 different acan colonies
Rainbow pectina
GSP
Green toadstool
Several zoa and paly colonies
Bright pink gonoporas
Green and red wellso
Several ricordias
Several ridactus
Green pocillipora
Mint birds nest
Magenta birds nest

3 lyre tail Anthias
Tailspot blenny
Black clownfish pair
Sleeper barred goby

Coral bandit shrimp
Blood shrimp
Candy pistol

The last fish that I plan on getting is a leopard wrasse and eventually more coral after everything grows out a bit.

 

[FrankAbagnale]

Sweet! Get those pics up!

 

[wolfenstein87]

I'll bust out my gopro and another camera today to see if I can get you guys some decent shots.

 

[YHSublime]

Still waiting! Nice build!

 

[wolfenstein87]

Here's a teaser. I took these with my phone, so be gentle on the quality.

 

[YHSublime]

Nice! Are those blastos?! They are very large if so!

Any more FTS? I am going to grab one of these tanks I think!

 

[wolfenstein87]

The second picture is our blasto rock. Those are merletti's that we've had for about three years, and the big one is an Aussie blasto. Not pictured is a new blasto that we got recently that has all red polyps. In the very back is an acan that we have moved down into the sand bed.

 

[wolfenstein87]

Here is a picture of our wellso. It decided to get super puffed up that day.

 

[wolfenstein87]

Also, here is a FTS that I took a little while back.

 

[wolfenstein87]

Alright, I got out my camera last night and took some better pictures, but it died midway through. So here is the first round.

 

[wolfenstein87]

 

[wolfenstein87]

 

[wolfenstein87]

I'll try to get more pictures later when my lights turn on.

 

[wolfenstein87]

And our fish stock is finished. The wife wanted to go up to Oceans Avenue today after I got home and they had a pair of juvi leopard wrasse. We also picked up a bubble tip.

Oh yea, we were checking out a new store over the weekend and found a mandarin that is know to eat frozen food, so we got it as well.

The same store had a very unique Niger trigger. I thought it was dead, but the store owner said "Nope, he's just sleeping". And to prove it, he put his hand in the tank and pulled on its tail. The trigger looked at him and said "dude, I'm sleeping!", and just nudged closer to its corner. If I had a bigger tank then I would have walked off with him.

 

[wolfenstein87]

A lot has changed since my last post; lots of corals, fish and...we moved! The scape changed dramatically when the guys reassembled it, fortunately we like the way it turned out. We also built a new canopy that looks like it went with the tank. Will upload some pictures of the critters soon.