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by **browncj7** » August 16th, 2005, 8:45 am

Figure since the colt pictured below will be 2 years old in November, it is about time I stared to post some picts of the tank.

I will post specs later.

by **browncj7** » August 16th, 2005, 10:15 am

Specs:

90g AGA
20g AGA sump
100+ lb Caribiean LR
1 - 2" Sand bed

300 + W VHO (2 Actinic White, 1 super Actinic URI bulbs )
Red Sea Berlin Turbo Skimmer
Velocity T2 for circ.
Inline UV (not used)

Inhabitants

2 - Ocellaris clowns (locally TR)
1 - Flame Hawk
Bunch of hermits
1 - Emerald Crab
Misc Snails (Turbo and Astrea are the bigguns)
Serpent Star
Brittle Star

Brains - 3
Leathers - 3
Tricolor Acropora
Lotsa GSP
4 color forms of button polyp
"Snake" ployps (?)
Frogspawn
Colt
Candycane
Tiny bit of Clove Polyps (been trying to get rid of em)

by **JOVIMECARCH** » August 19th, 2005, 7:48 am

great tank!

by **Sugar Magnolia** » August 22nd, 2005, 10:12 am

That colt is huge! The tank looks really nice.

by **browncj7** » October 24th, 2005, 8:45 pm

Oct 24.

One of the fire fish bit the dust :cry:

But I just traded a bunch of GSP for that cool maze brain in the middle of the tank

Also take a look up in the main discussion forum for a close up of a new frag.

by **LA-Lawman** » October 29th, 2005, 12:33 am

the aga 90g is one of my favorites..... it was my last one !!!

lookin good.... keep it up

by **browncj7** » December 8th, 2005, 9:36 pm

Before I go out and shovel the drive, just thought I would update.

Both firefish are gondo - I think the clowns and the hawk are just so voratious that the FFish starved.

Did a bit of rearranging this week and bought a few early X mass gifts:

A 250w ebo-Jaeger heater to help out what I already have in the sump, and a pinpoint digital thermometer so i know they are working corectly.

Also in that purchase was some new reef epoxy - hence the reason to rearrange.

Oh yea- I cut that huge colt into 3 big colts (one is in my nano) and all are well.

I will trade one to my LFS eventually.

Anywho here is the latest photos.

by **MartinE** » December 9th, 2005, 11:34 pm

looks good, I like the way gsp's spread in some peoples tanks, wish mine would.

by **browncj7** » December 10th, 2005, 6:10 pm

Don't wish too hard...
They are EVERYWHERE in my tank.

In the future I plan on having a GSP island where they can spread all they want.

by **FragMaster** » February 1st, 2006, 9:16 pm

I bet I know where htat maze brain came from! LOL!!!
Just About Fish?

by **browncj7** » February 2nd, 2006, 9:50 am

NOPE!

Wet Pet's (I'm a westsider)

by **FragMaster** » February 3rd, 2006, 1:11 am

Ah Nick!
He is a good guy!
A Little crabby but a good guy.
Hav you seen all of that dead blue ridge coral he as yet?
100's of pounds of it!! Litteraly! LOL!!
He wont come off of a pound of it either. LOL!

by **browncj7** » February 6th, 2006, 12:28 pm

Nick cracks me up...

by **rgulley** » February 8th, 2006, 12:37 am

Hey, I'm new to this forum and just came across your 90 while roaming around. Very nice! One of the cleanest looking set-ups I've seen. Most people build the back of the tank up high with LR to step up places to put more coral. I think I like the look of yours better.

by **browncj7** » February 8th, 2006, 10:36 am

Thanks!

None of the rock touches the glass. There is a gap behind the rock structures that I feel improves flow in the tank, and makes it easire to clean the back wall. This was a recomendation of the before mentioned Nick.

My new Kole really likes the extra swimming room it creates too!

by **rgulley** » February 8th, 2006, 6:24 pm

It really creates a dramatic look, and I'm sure the Kole really likes it. Plenty of room to swim around, but still a lot of places to hide.

I was wondering why you say you don't use your sterilizer? I've always had fish/invert tanks with a lot of LR and I am getting things together now to start a reef tank. I plan to start slow and easy, but any suggestions would be appreciated.(especially a good set of coral to start with).
Thanks,
Randy

by **browncj7** » February 9th, 2006, 1:38 pm

1) It is in line through my return and I feel there is too much flow through it to make much difference.

2) It can be helpful in the begining to kill some aquaborn algae, but it was not much of an issue in my tank.

3) I AM USING IT NOw! Just turned it back on as the kole has just a bit of stress induced ich. I turned it back on to kill the free swimmers.

4) It is just another lightbulb to replace.

Long story short - they are not useful in an established reef unless you are adding new fish/coral often.

by **browncj7** » March 10th, 2006, 2:15 pm

Just an update because I am here.

Ich is gone. Tang and bi-color are good. Tank ate every bit of algae out of the tank. AMAZING!!!

Bi-color is a pain in the a55. The acro is doing OK, but I have a feeling that he has taken a liking to the maze brain- it is not doing OK.

He will not go back into the tank after the move.

All else is super!

by **browncj7** » April 7th, 2006, 12:00 pm

The kole tank is no more :cry:

He cleaned all the algea outta the tank, and then would not eat anything else.

Dry algea sheets - no
Calpura - no
flakes - no
algea waffers for FW - no
Mysis - no.

Very sad. All else is well.

Just bought a new home! Expecting to move the tank in a couple months. Will Start a thread when it happens...

by **browncj7** » July 2nd, 2006, 10:18 pm

Still have not moved, and since I plan too soon, my maintanance regimin has been off.

I have not scraped coraline algae for a long time...

All is well and growing, have a few new picts. ENJOY!

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