My 135 gallon reef tank

[gm333]

I have been on this site for a little bit and decided I need to post some info and pics of my tanks.
This is my 135 gallon oceanic reef tank.
I acquired this tank a couple of years ago. I started it as a reef, then had a bad bout with hair algae so it was changed to a fowlr, then after the hair algae issue was solved I turned it back into a reef not quite a year ago.
The tank is an oceanic, I am currently running a 30gal refugium with a mag 24 return. My skimmer is an Aqua-C EV-180 with a mag 5 pump.
The lighting consists of 4-72"vho with 2 super actinic bulbs and 2 actinic white bulbs. I also have 2-175wt mh and one 250wt mh. All bulbs are 20,000 k.
The flow consists of 2 korallia-4's and 2 aquaclear powerheads.
The livestock consists of
1-potters angel
1-striped squirrelfish
2-black saddleback clowns
1-ORA oscellaris clown
3-pajama cardinals(2- in the sump waiting to catch the third to trade them in)
1-lawnmower blenny
1-tailspot blenny
1-six lined wrasse
1-rescued engineer goby
2-blue/green chromis
1- yellow tang

I have numerous coral, too many to list.
I have lots of acans, zoas/palys, acros, and softies.
Most of my corals are frags, just much cheaper to load a tank up with frags than full colonies.
I do 25% waterchanges every 2-3 weeks, try to do every 2 weeks, but hey Im human and tend to make it 3 weeks.
I dose 2 part B-Ionic every other night.
Dont mind the pics I have yet to figure out the secret to taking good shots of the full tank.

[pinkrblu]

That is just so amazing. As always, I'm impressed. Thanks for sharing. How many of those life forms would be appropriate for a nano?

[gm333]

You will be able to add most of the corals i have to a nano tank. They will just need to be fragged more often.
As far as the fish you could keep several I have in my list.
The oscellaris clow, tailspot blenny, both chromis and the 6line wrasse.
There are tons of nano fish out there to choose from.

[Josey]

Very Nice! I love saltwater fish my personal favorite is the blue mandarin goby the colors are just amazing.

[Bobby@W.U.W]

what is that fish in the middle of the third pic its not focused.

[gm333]

Its my oscellaris clown. He has a bad habit of hosting some of my green palys.

[Bobby@W.U.W]

how often do you feed your tubastrea? and with what? did you have to teach it to come out in the day?

[gm333]

Actually that is a dendrophylia. Much bigger than a tubastrea. I neded up paying 50.00 a head on that guy. I spot feed him 3 times a week with mysis, then he gets the smaller food that I feed the rest of the corals the other days. He opens very little through the day and fully opens at night, he is a very slow grower. I have seen little growth in the 4 mnths I have had him.
Here is a pic I took of him fully opened at night.

[Bobby@W.U.W]

sweet we have some red waratah anemone's at work that look similar.
those dendrophylia are super cool.

[Bobby@W.U.W]

has your squirrelfish ever givven you any trouble?

[gm333]

Nope. no troubles at all, just dont see him much during the lights on time except when feeding. I know his eyes are more sensitive to light than other fish. He has been a good fish. I did have a big-eye squirrelfish that refused to come out when the lights were on, not even to feed.

[cutegecko3]

Very nice acan. collection.

[gm333]

Thanks, I have access to some very nice acans, its just tough because they are generally very expensive.

[gm333]

Here is a couple of pics of the newest residents.

[gm333]

Its been a little over a year since I updated pics.
Here are some of the newer pics of the tank.