10' 600 gal system - Finally some activity in my forever build!!!

[strickrick]

My drab and boring tank is now bursting with life. I like to think that the school of Blue streak cardinals was the key, the dispar anthias hang out with them and all the other fish seem to swin in their proximity. I'm finally starting to feel like this long wait is worth it. Still missing a few key pieces but they'll show up shortly. Sorry about the colors in the photos - not sure how to get it less blue.

Stock list so far:
9x Blue Streak cardinals
7x Dispar Anthias
2x yellow tangs
Purple tang
Powder blue
Regal Blue tang
Orange Shoulder tang
Spotted Bristletooth tang
Metallic foxface
Copperband butterfly
rosshatch trigger
Majestic angel
Flagfin angel
Flame angel
Clown fairy wrasse
Mystery wrasse
Golden head sleeper goby
Lawnmower blenny
Mandarin goby
Bangaii cardinal
2x Black bar chromis
Ocellaris clown

Linked are previous posting of the setup. I haven't been keeping great tracking of the updates unfortunately.

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/blog.php?b=68
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/blog.php?b=69
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/blog.php?b=70
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/blog.php?b=77

[reefwars]

hey buddy man thats a hell uv alot of fish lol how big is your tank?? looks like a lot of life happening must be fun to sit and watch the tank cheers

[reefwars]

nevermind just read the threads lol looks great buddy

[strickrick]

Yeah, I totally went about starting this thread all wrong. For anyone else reading the tank is 120x30x30 w/125 gal sump making the overall system around 600 gal.

[Funky_Fish14]

That looks like a beauty!

"Blue-streak cardinals"/threadfin cardinals are really cool! I bet your school looks awesome!

Also, I love dispar anthias.. cool to hear you have a group and that they hang out with the cardinals!

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,

Chris

[strickrick]

I'm still awaiting a few new guys that should be arriving soon:
Australian harlequin tusk
White-freckled tang
Bariene tang
Monrovian tang

Was hoping to have these guys in first and build from there but the logistics and timing just hasn't worked. I couldn't wait any longer and had to get some movement in there so now they will be the last to go in. I believe they are all gonna be L-XL so i don't think there will be a lot of quarrelling from the other tangs.

And hopefully a Blonde naso tang & Female Bellus angel. She is definitely one of my favs. There's no sign of the Mystery wrasse in the pics but I'll guarantee he is my favorite in the tank right now. He's the first I've ever seen in person (he's not a person) and not from a google photo so that may have something to do with it.

Anyway, I'll try and get a pic or a nice video of the tank. I'm downloading some editing software now because the camera shoots in HD and the files are massive and in .MTS format.

[reefwars]

you should change your thread title to include your tank gallons youll get alot more view and posts i gotta say man that is one huge tank im in awe id love to have that, where the hell did you get that built to in nl??? i didnt think there were any tank builders there??

[reefwars]

here ya go mate

[strickrick]

Noooo, not NL. I've been trying to get an acrylic 10' now for years, tried every vendor from here to BC. All prices was in excess of $10-15k plus between $2500-$3500 for shipping. Even the lfs cost was $10k plus $3k freight and that was glass. You'd need 20+ people to help ya move it, don't know if I even know that many people!!! Lol.

I had it built and shipped from The Aquarium Company for less than half any offer in Canada and the freight from Winthrop, Mn was only $1k. Locked in at a good price because they told me the price of the tank from the time I ordered to the time it shipped had gone up $1600. Locked in low with a strong Cdn dollar. Finally, some good luck!

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[strickrick]

Originally Posted by strickrick

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Guess that's not how you add images. What am i missing here? Lol