Nikecivic's 135g Mixed Reef Tank

Tank was started in March 2008 with UCSB water and have been using D-DH2Ocean Salt for 2 years now.

Livestock: Blue Hippo Tang, Yellow Tang, Purple Tang, Tomini Tang, (3) Lg Green Chromis, Transparent Goby, Neon Dottyback, (2) Fiji Devil Damsels, Three Spot Domino Damsel, pair of Gold Coral Banded Shrimp.

Equipment: 135 gallon glass tank (72"x18"x24"), center overflow, euro-fil acrylic sump, Bubble King Mini 160 skimmer, 130+lbs of live rock, 8 x 39watt IceCap SLR retro kit w/(2) IceCap 660 ballast, (2) Vortech MP40W 2nd gen w/battery backup, Bubble Magus Doser & RK Lite w/NET.

Nice to see you on here. I meet you at fins sometime back. Tank looks good.

nice looking tank, and welcome to the forums!

awesome Mike. what about all the corals that you have. can you list those too.

Thanks for the comments! Can I edit the original post to add the list of corals? I'm planning to make a few frags for the frag swap in dec.

Ya tou should be able to at the bottom of the post. If not let me know and i will see if j can fix it

That looks good. Do you have a problem with blowing sand around with your mp40s so low in the tank? At what percentage do you run them at?

No problems with MP40w's blowing sand. They are running maybe 15-20%. I'm starting to move them up.

Current corals:

Orange Monticap
Green Monticap
Sunset Monticap
Mystic Sunset Monticap
Sunset Digitata
Green Digitata
Blue Digitata
Green Slimer
Pagoda Cup
Scroll Cup
Green mushrooms
Unknown Toadstool
Unknown Zoas
Unknown Polyps
Greentip Frogspawn
Green Tort

New additions in my frag rack:
Seasons Greetings Monticap
Pink Lemonade Acro
Purple blue tipped stag
Purple Torat w/blue tips

Here is a current FTS, you can see the coraline all over!




More frags have been added in the last couple weeks, hopefully they grow-in fast!



Right side of the tank with the Frogspawn fully expanded





Left side of the tank with the Toadstool fully extended

Looking good, where did you put that pink cadillac? is that it on the right side?

Its on the frag rack, I had make room for it...thats why I'm trading the sunset digi.

Very nice setup , Nike

Thanks hopefully breaking up the dosing intervals promotes more growth!

I guess my tank will be presented at next month's meeting. Any suggestions?

Here are a few topics:
Parameters
Equipment
Livestock
Corals
Maintenance
Issues

That looks like a good list. Short and sweet, but enough for us to see what you have, of course you will need some updated pics

nikecivic wrote:I guess my tank will be presented at next month's meeting. Any suggestions?

Here are a few topics:
Parameters
Equipment
Livestock
Corals
Maintenance
Issues

lots and lot of pictures...

Some updated pics:
name is either a vivid firefly or hollywood stunner chalice


unknown chalice


updated FTS


sunset monti


clowns woken up in their frogspawn

wow! Bro your tank looks amazing!

Thanks! The coraline algae is everywheres.

New pics...

New frogspawn for the clowns



Green Bay Packers Zoa colony



Green Slimer Acropora colony

Current shots of the tank. I gave my monti encrusted rock to Crusty and started with new frags...

FTS


Middle shot


Right shot


Left shot


Closeup of the new rock with rooms to grow

looking good Mike.

Thanks! Let's see how long it takes to cover the new rock with coralline!

haha, not long at all.

is that coraline on the front glass too?!? Looks good! Should only take a day to cover the rock in your tank.

At first I thought it was a cap, but further investigation would lead me to believe that it might be coralline algae.

Glad to see the rocks worked for you. Did you break it up any? Tank looks good. Now if I can just stay at home long enough to get some real work done on mine.

As for the one you gave me, I broke the yellow tubinaria off of it and got all of the green monti off of the coral. So now it resieds next to my other one, unless you want it back.

The green monti covered rock is still in the same place and looking good. I did a 175G water change and cleane dthe tank real good so it's looking better now. Just need some more corals in it and then to let them all grow in.

Yes I did break it up because it wouldn't fit in the bucket. Actually, I don't notice much changes if I see the tank everyday. If I do notice things more if I've been gone for a few weeks.

You can keep the turbinaria, it's a slow grower? I'm glad to get rid of the green monti.

Mike,

I was browsing reeftronics and notice that your not connected any more. is that on purpose?

Thanks for checking, I need to reset the game adapter but have been busy the last couple of days. I knew there was an issue before reeftronics sent me a text but I was ignoring at the time. Hopefully I can get to it today.

A few zoa pics

Those lime green ones look crazy!

those are nuke greens! they are very cool and fast growers but they will also take out other zoas

Yes they are called nuclear (nuke) green palys!

I bought a new fish as an impulse buy.





This guys is awesome!

is that a file fish?

its a flounder! Same species as a halibut.

those things like cooler water, and will eat small fish and your CUC keep a good eye on him,.

I will! I don't have small fish that can fit in its mouth.

I haven't seen flounders in a long time!!!!
Where'd you get him??
These one are tropical. They don't get nearly as big as halibut. I had mine for 6yrs before I had to get rid of my tank. He was about the size of a quarter...maybe a .50cent piece when I got him and about 6" when he left. Never touched anything he'd jump at some fish if they got too close. But my cleaner shrimp and peppermint shrimp could just walk on him.

Very cool fish.

I bought it at Tats. This guy is atleast 5".

Nice Mike, that thing is awesome!

I was bored so I made some pics with frames

Very nice! Looks amazing.

Those ricordeas look sweet, when you frag them, I have some(ric) to trade(or if you swing by I can give you a frag now)

dwolson2 wrote:Those ricordeas look sweet, when you frag them, I have some(ric) to trade(or if you swing by I can give you a frag now)

Those are my only ricordeas and don't plan to frag them anytime soon. I got them from Unique Corals, they will have a nice discount if you go there for the Holiday party.

clownfish14 wrote:Very nice! Looks amazing.

Thanks, I plan to make more room by removing some rock and corals!

I'm upgrading to a 180 gallon tank! Basically adding 6" of depth. It will be 6' x 2' x 2' glass tank with a center overflow. All equipment will be carried over to the new tank and I will be moving things over later this year.

sweet!!!!!! did you get the tank yet?