90 Gallon Reef: updates

[Diana]

Here are some pictures of the new aquascape in my reef tank. My goal was to provide more open swimming space while keeping a natural feel. I re-did it a couple weeks ago, and everything is finally begining to settle in. Some corals are still a little shocked, but nothing too serious.

Please excuse the cloudy water and the diatoms, I am running that ugly phosban reactor right now to try and fix this problem. :)

Full Tank:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_4.jpg


Side of tank:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_5.jpg

Left side:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_7.jpg

Right side:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_8.jpg

Red/orange starfish on a walkabout:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_10.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_13.jpg

Clownfish in thier 2 "hosts":

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_11.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_9.jpg

Newest addition to my reef tank, a male squarespot anthias. I am hoping my lone female lyretail will keep this guy.... well.... a guy! So far they have not even looked at each other, the male is mostly interested in his reflection. I've had him since Thursday and he's out and about and eating.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/dinostar00/07_90_12.jpg


Cheers
:)
-Diana

[Slipstream]

Some excellent pics there.. and cloudy water?.. only noticed it on one of them, and it wasnt too cloudy at all. :mrgreen:

[Delphinus]

Looks really nice Diana!

[Chaloupa]

Very very nice tank! Your corals look fantastic!

[Sebae again]

Wow! Makes those SPS tanks look dull and boring. What do you use for lighting?

[Diana]

Thanks everyone, I have 260 watts PC light, and an additional 150 watts regular output T5 light. It suffices, but I would eventually like to redo my setup and try some halide lighting. :D


-Diana

[Snappy]

Yep, very nice.

[Jason McK]

Nice Diana, Love the Anthias. Nice Chalice what kind is it?

J

[Mikee]

I like the new aquascape..i bet your tangs are loving the extra space! I redid mine last week to give more space aswell..i'm not a big fan of the tank full of rocks to the top look. As long as there is about 1.5lbs of LR per g it will be enough to keep the tank stable. I personally think your tank would look even better than it does already with MH ;) I just love the shimmer and shadows it brings.

[Diana]

Thanks again! Yeah I really do like the look of halide lighting, with the shimmer and all. But I think if I went with it then I would be tempted just to redo my entire setup so I could keep some nicer sps. All in good time I guess!

Jason, I have no clue what type of chalice it is. I got it about 2 years ago out at OA, and I dont think I asked when I bought it. It was about half the size too..... has grown a bit. My neon goby likes to sit on it and the cave goby sits under it, hehe. Sometimes it puffs up huge like the brain coral. :)

-Diana

[Mikee]

Oh I forgot to ask how long you have had your red seastar? I had a blue 1 but it sadly died on me..not sure why..just wondering what you do to keep them happy. I heard they have a short life span maybe mine was already quite old.. still unsure of the cause.

[danny zubot]

Very nice! I especially like the blue eyed candies or what ever they are called. Wish i could get some out here.

[Raf]

the blue linkia stars are difficult to feed, or at least their diet is uncertain and in an aquarium, most likely lacking. I have heard that you can manually feed them, but this is a chore.

The red stars supposivly last longer, but their diet is also largely uncertain.

[Delphinus]

Hey Raf, any idea "what" you could feed a linckia? I heard that too, and tried, but I never could get mine to accept anything. Mine lasted for about a year and a half in the end.

[OCDP]

By far one of my favourite aquascapes. I love the look. Your tank is amazing, full of colour and is extremely clean, neat and tidy. :biggrin:

[Raf]

Hey Raf, any idea "what" you could feed a linckia? I heard that too, and tried, but I never could get mine to accept anything. Mine lasted for about a year and a half in the end.

Actually, you could try various foods from larger frozen foods to fine foods made for filter feeders. The tough part is flipping the star upside down to place the food in its mouth...

[Diana]

I just tried to get the red sea star to eat some krill today, no luck. I'm sure he would eat it but he wasnt interested in holding on to it so it kept floating away. I even 'pinned' the krill under the sea star and he just moved away from it. Hehe. I hope he'll live a while, there's lots of stuff he could eat in my tank. I have lots of sponge too.... which I actually hope they wont eat.

Thanks for the comments everyone!
:D


-Diana

[ImprezaSTi]

looks bigger than 90gal for some reason.. maybe because of the cave on the right. very nice.