DKoKoMan's 150g Reef Tank

[Ryanerickson]

Tanks looking great frags look happy love your fish.

[Bblinks]

Coming along nicely.

[DKoKoMan]

Originally Posted by Ryanerickson

Tanks looking great frags look happy love your fish.

Originally Posted by Bblinks

Coming along nicely.

Thanks guys! Trying to get things moving forward and growing

[DKoKoMan]

New Onyx Clownfish (replaced my mated male I lost). So far so good as she has fully accepted him and both are hosting the anemone.



Lyretail Anthias. Great addition to the tank!

[DKoKoMan]

I hav been looking at various different CUC to replenish some that have been lost. I had added 5 electric blue crabs (all died). Not sure if they were eaten? I have a handful of red tip hermits, snails, bristle star, fighting conch's, 2 Halloween hermits and various sand snails. I have been looking at the tuxedo urchins and would like to pick one up. Does anyone have one in their reef tank?

I was also wondering what people are using for the best CUC options in a reef tank. Looking forward to suggestions!

[Myka]

I like Tuxedo urchins, but if you don't glue down frags they will carry them around and usually drop them behind rocks (of course).

My fav CUC are:

Tiger Cukes
Black brittle seastars (other types may catch sm fish)
Scarlet Hermits
Ring cowries
Trochus snails
Tuxedo urchin
Cerith snails
Strawberry/fighting/orange lip conchs

I have all of these in my tank.

I like the new Anthias! Looks healthy. How many did you buy?

Btw, the anemone hosts the Clownfish, not the other way around.

[tang daddy]

Looks good man, this set up came together quickly!

[DKoKoMan]

Originally Posted by Myka

I like Tuxedo urchins, but if you don't glue down frags they will carry them around and usually drop them behind rocks (of course).

My fav CUC are:

Tiger Cukes
Black brittle seastars (other types may catch sm fish)
Scarlet Hermits
Ring cowries
Trochus snails
Tuxedo urchin
Cerith snails
Strawberry/fighting/orange lip conchs

I have all of these in my tank.

I like the new Anthias! Looks healthy. How many did you buy?

Btw, the anemone hosts the Clownfish, not the other way around.

Thanks for sharing Myka. I love the look of the tuxedo urchin but it is definitely a concern to me to have frags knocked over. Unfortunately I only have small frags at the moment and I finally have them secured with epoxy. I still find the odd one knocked off (large fish) or maybe my powder blue does it to annoy me .

I have the rear glass filmed black (my previous 75g was transparent) so it makes it much harder to find the frags lol. If I start with a smaller truce do do you think it will be a wrecking ball? Or am I just going to run the risk of corals here and there being knocked over. As for the rest of your list o am using much the same minus the tigers.

I ended up just getting a single Anthias as I wasn't sure how it would fair in my system. So far so good with her, she seems happy and eating like crazy. Not too sure about my leopard wrasse as she has been AWOL for 3 days now... your right! My anemone is hosting my clowns however I am just happy that my big female accepted the tiny onyx.

[DKoKoMan]

Originally Posted by tang daddy

Looks good man, this set up came together quickly!

Thanks! No where near your tank lol. But I look at some of the mature systems and hope mine gets there at some point.

[amberc12]

Lookin awesome! I love lyretails!! Hooray your clown has a buddy! I think I am going to have to get rid of my clarki in the other tank, she is evil!!! Yes Mindy I'm talking about Debbie (tho I call her satan) Can't wait to see more pics!!