Our 90 Gallon Reef is finally up!

[Diana]

Well, we are finally moving over our tanks to our new house. We decided to merge my two reef tanks(20 gallon and 33 gallon) into one, we decided on the 90 gallon.

On the first day, we moved all the corals over from both tanks into a temporary holding tank to stay overnight while I arranged all the liverock we picked up in the 90 gallon. Need less to say, arranging the rock took a good part of the morning and adding the corals and fish took the rest of the afternoon.

Hope you like the pics. :)

Diana and Raf

the temporary 20 gallon coral holding tank:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/tanktemp.jpg

the 90 gallon that evening when finally set up, very cloudy, corals slightly stressed!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/tank1.jpg

The next morning:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/tank2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/tank3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/tank4.jpg

Some of the corals, now a lot happier and only 24 hours later!:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/redmushy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/redbluemush.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/pineapple.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/mushies.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/hammer.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/greenzoos.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/greenstar.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/greenmush.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/greencandy.jpg

[Diana]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/frogspawn.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/clam.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/candycane.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/bluemushy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/bluemush.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Raf_MM/bluecandy.jpg

Sorry for all the pics, hope you liked :)

We are glad the move went fairly smoothly, but it was a LOT of work! Happy new year!

:)

[saltynuts]

looks awesome. i miss my 90.
tell us a little about your set up!

[MikeP]

Really nice looking tank. It turned out very well.

Good luck :)

[Ruth]

Looks really good. I love your aquascaping. It turned out very nice and well worth the extra time you spent on it.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Yes, the aquascaping is excellent. The corals look very happy too, which is always a good sign after a big move.

Anthony

[niloc16]

looks very very good. love the aquascaping

[Chin_Lee]

man thats a big difference overnight pics. Beautifully done.

[Moogled]

Diana, even your temporary coral-holding tank was nice.

If it wasn't intentional, I still liked the extremely natural look of it, haha.

[Sushiman]

excellent aquascape! It's gonna look fantastic. Happy New Year all.

[Beverly]

New tank, new house, new year! Looks like a great beginning for all three :biggrin:

[Tom R]

THE 90g gives you a lot more room to work with and you have truly taken advantage of the space. Looks fantastic.

Tom R

[andestang]

Very nice aquascaping :D Great pics also. So how did you hold your rock work together ?

[Diana]

Thanks for all the comments, guys! I am very excited about this tank, as it gives a lot of room to play with, as Tom mentioned. It was a long exhausting day (I was biting my nails watching Anthony combine his tanks into his 220 gallon, and now I know what it feels like!).

Moogled, thats funny, Raf said he liked the look of the holding tank as well! He said it looked like a real coral reef from the top. hehe... no it was not intentional... I just plunked them all in there where I thought they wouldn't sting each other to death.

andestang, um, well, I did what many dont have the patience for. I fitted each peice together like a puzzle, which is why it took me so freakin long to set up. I'd say probebly 2 hours working on the rockwork alone. Its all amazingly solid, although I doubt it would stand up to an earthquake. Its not even resting on the back glass! Crazy.

Raf insisted on posting pics at this early stage (and he was playing with his new christmas present ;) ), but like all tanks it will only get better with age (even though all the contents are from tanks over 2 years old).

Be prepared for many pics to come!

As for the specs, they are not final. Right now this is what I am running, but the skimmer is from my old 20 gallon so it needs a deperate upgrade. I'm thinking of a Remora. Maybe when I get enough moola I will upgrade the lighting as well. ;)

-Prizm Skimmer (eck)
-Seio 620
-Tunze Nanostream
-Aquaclear 300 (for mechanical)
-Heater
-Coralife 4 ft - 4 X 65 watt PC
-Coralife double T5 - 56 watts


Thats right- no sump! Muwahaha.

;)
-Diana

[Pan]

What livestock currently resides in your beautiful tank?

[Diana]

Well, right now we have a pair of Ocellaris Clowns which breed every 3 weeks :D, a Yellow Tang, a Brazilian Gramma, a yellow anthias(we hope to get a school going sometime in the future), a mandarin goby which we only purchased because it was feasting on frozen foods at the store and 2 green clown gobies.

:)

[Pan]

so with the school of anthias, how many fish are to going to max your 90 with?

[Diana]

There will be around 15 fish, but many of them, such as the gobies, are very small. This is of course assuming that I can get away with keeping 6 or 7 lyretail anthias together without much of a fuss. We'll see how it goes. I'd love a hippo tang as well but I dont want to overdo the livestock.

I've already started to re-arrange things hehehe.

:)
-Diana

[Mikee]

Love the tank diana. Amazing aquascaping skills..I too am currently setting up a 90g tank with overflow and the whole works. Already have a good portion of the LR i need.. all in my 50g breeder thats been sitting around along with some of the clean up crew and bangai cardinals. Just some more things to buy (another light, new skimmer, plumbing, return pump and im set!) hopefully got it all in the next 2 weeks here :biggrin: if only i had someone with your aquascaping skills to
aquascape my tank for me! :lol: good job keep us updated! :wink:

[sumpfinfishe]

Look's amazing guy's!

Glad to hear the move went well, what with all the trouble you had at the end of the year.

Looking forward to seeing more pics-congrats on a move well done!

[Chaotic Cricket]

There will be around 15 fish, but many of them, such as the gobies, are very small. This is of course assuming that I can get away with keeping 6 or 7 lyretail anthias together without much of a fuss. We'll see how it goes. I'd love a hippo tang as well but I dont want to overdo the livestock.

I've already started to re-arrange things hehehe.

:)
-Diana

Oh iI forgot to ask, what are your plans for corals for this tank?

[Diana]

Corals are for now all softies and LPS. I do have some SPS, just easy monitpora. Well, "easy" by SPS standards, most of it bleached in the move unfortunately. They were just small frags though. I dont plan on purchasing a lot more corals, since amazingly I got tons out of my 20 and 30 gallon tanks... I'll just sit back and let it spread.

Of course, if an irresistible frag comes along I'm sure I wont be able to help myself. ;)


:)
-Diana