FishWrangler's 75gal Salty Adventure

Fish Wrangler

Fish Wrangler

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When I say adventure I mean it, I have wanted to throw a sledgehammer through this tank sometimes and loved it other times

Fish- 1 yellow tang, 1 pink spotted watchman goby, 1 male mccosker flasher wrasse, 2 percula clownfish, and 2 ocellaris clownfish.

Inverts- 2 astraea turbo snails, some zebra hermit crabs, some blue-legged hermit crabs, 1 scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp, 1 tiger pistol shrimp(paired with the goby). I'm going to an lfs tomorrow for either another scarlet skunk or a few peppermint shrimp

Coral-1 kenya tree, 1 umbrella xenia, 1 duncan, and 1 neon green sinularia

1 jebao rw-8, a eshopps WD-75 trickle filter with Rio 1700 pump, a eshopps snowcone125 skimmer, and a marineland magnum 350 canister make up my filtration/water movement

Lighting-fluval quad t5HO with moonlight fixture. 1 actinic bulb, 2 6500k bulbs, and 1 18,000k bulb. Running 7am-9pm

Running since June of this year
 
Little update here. I accidentally sucked up my duncan while cleaning the rocks, and damaged the main head and a few of the other heads. Today most of the heads are fully open, and all but 2 are fully extended.
Yesterday I bumped the flow from the powerhead up a notch, and the kenya has responded by fully extending. The green nepthea is the only coral that doesn't look happy, and I'm not sure what to do. If I increase the flow I'm afraid of making the other corals unhappy, and I think the only spot I could put the nepthea to make it happy is to close to the kenya.
 
I don't think any of the coral will dislike more flow. My mixed reef has a rw8 and rw15 on 100% and everything loves it softies, lps, sps. Here's my nepthea. Wife loves it. I can't stand the thing
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Ok, I found a new spot for the nepthea and moved it there earlier today. If it doesn't perk up tomorrow I will increase the flow one notch.
 
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Increased the flow 2 notches today. Nepthea didn't seem to be phased at all, and the other corals didn't seem to mind either. If it doesn't open tomorrow I will increase the flow one more notch.

cammunoz-I know the lfs I go to in Norridge had 2 more nepthea 2 weeks ago, not sure if they still have them though.
 
Flow had to be back down one notch, kenya wasn't liking the increased flow. When I was at my lfs their sw guy said the nepthea might want lower light, tomorrow after work the nepthea might move again.

While at the lfs I picked up 2 peppermint shrimp and a green star polyp frag. The frag covers 4 1/2"x1/2" egg crate squares. It will hopefully add a nice touch to the right side of the tank.
 

Redid part of the rock, wanted to make some low light and low flow areas for some corals.

I soooo wanted to buy the orange bambam zoa yesterday, but the star polyp won out
If anyone has some bambam zoa's I would love to talk about possibly buying some from you.
 
Have some good news and some bad news to report.
Good news- 1)The nepthea finally opened up all the way and is happy where it is. 2)The clownfish are still getting along with a little nipping, but nothing that has resulted in any damage. It seems to be just argument like fights, one clowns nips the anal fin of another, the one that got bit spins around, and it ends like that. I have seen both ocellaris and both percula being the nippers and the ones being nipped. 3) All the corals appear nice and happy now, happy corals=happy wrangler

Bad news-1) I can only find one peppermint shrimp out of the 2 I bought. 2) Red slime is coming back with vengeance, it is covering the sand behind and along the side of the rock work and is on some of the rock. 3) The bubble algae is spreading and I don't have an emerald crab to eat it.
 
If thats a 75 gal and u only running one powerhead thats probably u red slime issue dead spots where chit settles
 
Any time I try increasing the flow I end up with POd coral(s) so I keep it set the way it is. Not sure how else to increase flow even if I did add a second power head.
 
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Any time I try increasing the flow I end up with POd coral(s) so I keep it set the way it is. Not sure how else to increase flow even if I did add a second power head.
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I ran two of those on my 75 both on high maybe cause i had sps u may want to look into dual controller lets u run two but u can set it where ine is off and other is on just got one and i love it
 
I'm happy my dad had a reef tank 25 years ago. Makes water changes so much easier, I got called into work on Monday before I could do my water change so I just had to ask my dad to do it for me. Anyone else and I wouldn't have taken the chance but because I know he has experience with reefs I felt ok...then I come home. He gravel vacced the entire sand bed, and buried many stones and shells I added for the pistol shrimp. I'm going to have to unbury everything now so the shrimp can use it again, he had like a 6" tunnel going until I accidentally had a rock crush it. Thankfully he wasn't in the tunnel at the time but he never rebuilt it.

My mission for this weekend is un burry all of the rubble for the shrimp and start curing 50 pounds of base rock I got last weekend. I plan on making the left side of the tank look similar to the right side where I built the cave up more, and I might extend the rockwork up higher if I have the rock for it.

My dad got a rock covered in 3 or 4 different corals last weekend for me. 2 xenia species, 1 mushroom species, and possibly another coral but I'm not 100% sure. One xenia is umbrella and the other looks like hand/finger xenia.

I was able to find my other peppermint shrimp, but unfortunately they don't seem to have an appetite for apista. Not sure if I'm going to get another peppermint of two and see if they eat the, or just get apista-x and kill it that way.
 
I've made some changes to the tank since the last update. I added 50 pounds of dry base rock to build up the left side of the tank, moved the nepthea to the lower left corner, added another xenia frag(no ID), added a bam bam zoa frag, a second zoa frag (no ID), fragged some umbrella xenia that was attached to the mushroom rock, and started dosing calcium and alkalinity the other day as per the lfs recommendation. The calcium and alkalinity is a 2 part solution made by TwoLittleFishes(can't remember the name of the product)

For Christmas I got an RW-4, another 50 pound box of dry base rock, and an eshopps overflow box. All of those are needed for when I move the tank in the coming weeks; just need 1 more box of rock, 3 filter socks, some PVC pipe and fittings, 2 32 gallon garbage bins, and a few days off of work lol. I also got the BRS 150gal water saver upgrade and at 50PSI I get a 2.5:1 waste:good compared to 4:1nbefore the upgrade, and BRS says you need 65PSI to get it to work. 2.5:1 is way better than 4:1 any day!

If you check out my YouTube channel, fishwrangler97, you will see an updated video. I'll try to post a picture here before the new year. Got all 4 wisdom teeth out this morning so I can't promise anything...
 
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