David's 75 Gallon Reef

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dpodolak

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What do you guys think 75 gallon reef running on 160 Watt LED Fixture. 20 gallon sump. 70 lbs of rock. Lot of Coral. Fish: White Bristle-tooth Tang, Yellow Tang, Blue Hippo Tang(Holding for friend while he upgrades), Coral Beauty, 2" copper-banded butterfly, 2 ocellaris clowns, orchid dottyback, and neon cleaner goby. I made the cover for sump intake look like rock with pond foam and epoxied sand, it worked out great everything is fine and it has coraline all over it. This tank is 4 months old. Any Comments or suggestions.View attachment 13256
 
Fist off the tank looks great! Secondly, and by no means am I fish expert but I am pretty sure Ive read more than once that Tangs need a lot more tank than that to thrive.


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Mentioned the Tangs not sure of you're keeping all of them for your friend or just the Blue Hippo.


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Thanks. I'm only keeping the blue hippo I was told by a couple of reef hobbiests that a yellow tang with a smaller tang will be fine in a 75 gallon, so I went with it and there is no sign of stress in my tank at all even with the temporary third tang.
 
Looking good for the young age of the tank. I'd be on the look out for water parameters. You've got a pretty large bioload that could ecome unmanagable. As they grow and eat more it'll get pretty difficult to manage. How big is the skimmer you're running?
 
Thanks for the input guys water parameters are great. I'm running a refugium with chaeto and live rock then over chemical carbon and phosban through filter pads to the skimmer which is a super reef octopus XP1000SSS. I might be getting rid of my copperband butterfly though, he is reef safe its just the tank mates aren't accepting him if anyone is interested. Here are some more pics of the tankView attachment 13262View attachment 13263View attachment 13264
 
jayjerk said:
Camouflaging a fs thread...lol
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How am I attempting to camouflage anything? I didn't post a single picture of the copperband and I didn't sell it to anyone on here. I guess a new member can't start a thread about his tank. Thanks for being welcoming to this forum.
 
dpodolak said:
How am I attempting to camouflage anything? I didn't post a single picture of the copperband and I didn't sell it to anyone on here. I guess a new member can't start a thread about his tank. Thanks for being welcoming to this forum.
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Did u not see the lol...sennnnsaaaaative
 
dpodolak said:
How am I attempting to camouflage anything? I didn't post a single picture of the copperband and I didn't sell it to anyone on here. I guess a new member can't start a thread about his tank. Thanks for being welcoming to this forum.
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[MENTION=1971]jayjerk[/MENTION] is the resident unfiltered :jerk: you can ignore him, everyone else does :rofl:
 
Got some new inverts,
Blue Linckia, Red linckia, blue maxima, gold maxima clam.
Here are some more pics of the aquarium.
I still plan to get a few more things before i finish up: RBTA, Fire Shrimp, Anemone crab, sand sifting star, electric flame scallop, Pom Pom crabs.
I'll probably have to lighten up the load so I'll put up a fs thread soon, if you see anything you like PM me.View attachment 13658View attachment 13659
Also does anyone know where I can get a nice turquoise maxima like this?
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