My 2 year old 65g hex reef..

Chaloupa · #1 10-10-2006, 10:42 PM

This is my tank...it's 2 years old now. I have a Remora Pro skimmer, Coralife Aqualight Pro (150w), 85lbs live rock, 2 inch sand bed, mostly softies and a couple of LPS....front view, left side and right side

Delphinus · #2 10-10-2006, 10:58 PM

Cool tank. I really like it, looks great.

I assume you're running sumpless since it looks like the powerhead is servicing a skimmer with the tube going out of the water like that.

What else do you do for flow in there?

I spy two clowns, a chromis, and a mandarin ... who else lives in there?

danny zubot · #3 10-10-2006, 10:58 PM

Very nice, how tall is that tank?

Jaws · #4 10-10-2006, 11:51 PM

Very nice. I love the aquascaping. You've got a lot of nice caves in there that would be perfect for a sun coral. Nice work!

Chaloupa · #5 10-11-2006, 12:23 AM

I actually do have a sump...the centre column is the overflow with some of the rock leaned against and giving stability to the rock work at the front.....I have 3 powerheads, unfortunately, as it is tough with the tank being 30.5" high. 2 are for water movement one on the surface as I like a lot of surface agitation and then I have a 2nd for moving water to the bottom of the tank...the 3d (which is the ugly tube that you see) is for the Phosban reactor. I would love to hide it in the sump but have no room. We are trying to rework that now. We had a custom sump built but it takes up a lot of stand room and I have the Remora hidden in there now. I hate being able to see powerheads and tubes and stuff...but you get used to it.

Livestock; pair of false perc's, Kole Tang (don't tell the Tang Police as the tank is not long enough being only 24"

) Male Madarin, Yellow Watchman Goby, 3 Chromis, 1 Bi-Color Blenny, 2 Firefish, Yellow Clown Goby, 2 Cleaner Shrimp, 1 Coral Banded Shrimp, 1 Blue Tuxedo Urchin, 1 UGLY cucumber, emerald crab, clean up crew and corals.

I did have a sun coral but found with all the large feedings they require that my water quality was a concern. We are going to add a Scribbled Rabbitfish to the tank for some algae control...we have a nasty red "crunchy" (for lack of a better word) algae that we are hoping it may have a taste for...we really enjoy our Golden Spotted Rabbit who resides in our 120g that is a great algae fiend but is WAY too large for this tank so went with a smaller variety purchased in a smaller size! If it's size becomes a concern we'll move it to another tank.

Thanks for the compliments...if I were to start over, I wouldn't jump at doing this tank as it is so limiting with it being so high and short...but it looks good, fits where it is and we learned a lot from it the hard way!

christyf5 · #6 10-11-2006, 01:26 AM

These tanks are so cool for aquascaping. I think if I were to setup another tank it would be one of these. Looks like you've got some great stuff in there too

Delphinus · #7 10-11-2006, 02:26 AM

What is the yellow coral above the chromis and kole (I think it's the kole, it's more of a blur??) in the 2nd pic? In the first pic there's an ocellaris in it. Is that some kind of gorgonian? Can you post a closeup of it (I have a thing for gorgs ..)

Chaloupa · #8 10-11-2006, 02:42 AM

Yep its a gorg! I love them too! I have 2 and would love to add some of the harder to keep red and yellow...but "key words" harder to keep make my decision easy! I will check all my pics and see if I have any decent ones of the two.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #9 10-11-2006, 04:30 AM

Nice hex. I had a 35g hex as my reef tank for a couple of years & loved it. In fact, I've had people tell me that was the fav. of all my tanks & why did I not set it up again when we moved. Oh well, good to see someone else carrying on the hex-reef tradition. It's harder to aquascape, but well worth it in the end IMO.

Anthony

Ken · #10 10-11-2006, 04:55 AM

Looks very good after 2 years, since when you first started heh! Patience and years and tears for something to develope into a very rewarding hobby. Glad you stuck with it. Congrats Regards Ken