Wanted to say hello to everyone and introduce myself. I was referred here by Rose City Aquarium in Portland where I frequent. (queen)
I've been in the saltwater hobby now for 2 years (set-up my first system Oct 05). First system was a 55g acrylic "show" tank (funky round corners). I don't believe I had the patience or knowledge then to let it actually cycle the full 6 weeks you are supposed to and started buying fish from a store that's no longer in business and they sold me about $700 worth of equipment that I didn't need for a saltwater tank with corals and fish. Purchased a bunch of corals around Jan 06 from someone who was selling their tank and moving.
After that venture, I met Woody at Seahorse Aquarium Supply who set me up with a 135g acrylic tank with stand and matching hood. I moved my 55g critters into this tank over a period of 3 weeks (live rock and sand being the first thing added to the tank live rock with corals and such being last). Lighting then was a 4' Compaq fluorescent with moonlights. My hood had 4" of clearance on the underside above the tank. I picked up a sump with a sock filter through Woody, and Steve (one of his old employees) came out and installed it for us.
Through Steve we replaced our old lights and hood with a new system, and are now running 4-6' VHO lights and a very nice new hood with 10-12" clearance above the tank and room for MH should my fiancée decide to let me add them (innocent)
Our tank is now 2 years old this month! (Happy birthday us lol) and is going rather well I'd say considering. (whistle)
We have a good stocking in our tank right now, with a few members in the tank who will be leaving us later due to for-seen problems that could arise. Anyway, here’s a list of what we have in the tank:
Fish:
4 Green Chromis (ranging from small ¾” to large 3”)
2 Oscelarus Clownfish (both aprox same size 2” but one is larger than the other)
2 Heniochus (1 medium sized one small?)
2 Bartlett’s Anthias (2f) Both same size, about 2”)
2 Mandarin Gobies (1m/1f) male 3” female 2”) currently spawning in the tank
1 Blue-lined Cleaner Wrasse (aprox 2”)
1 Leopard Wrasse (2-3”)
1 Red Choris (Choris Wrasse) (Same as leopard wrasse maybe just a hair larger) (sick)
1 Regal Tang (Dori) (4” nose to tail?)
1 Royal Gramma (2-3”)
1 Yellow Tang (large one easily)
1 Orange-spotted Shrimp Goby (3” or so)
1 Dragon Goby (4-5”)
Corals that I know the names of:
2 Bubble-tip Anemones (one large pink/green, one small white w/orange foot)
1 Long Tentacle Anemone
4-6 stalks of Pulsing Xenia
Hammer Coral (aka Frog Spawn)
Lots of Zooanthid colonies (what I’ve been told they were called) (wasnt me)
Large Button Polyps
3 different kinds Green Star Polyps (at least they all look different)
Gorganthid (looks like a green star but slightly different)
2 different color mushrooms (red and green)
Flower Pot (I think) (huh)
Inverts:
1 Horseshoe Crab
5 Emerald Crabs (1m/4f)
1 Conch
Several Turbo Snails, Narcissus (sp?) Snails, Margarita Snails
1 Mystery Crab (just found him 2 days ago) He’s white with spots and a black “thumb” I’m not sure what the correct terminology is I’m sorry. Any ideas what he might be? (scary)
2 Cleaner Shrimp
1 Peppermint Shrimp
I believe that is it as far as things in our tank. I’m sure we have other things in there that I have no idea about at this time. (daz)
Hope that’s a good enough introduction… Feel free to ask any questions you’d like. You may not get an answer back but your free to ask
