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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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

has your squirrelfish ever givven you any trouble?

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.

Very nice acan. collection.

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

Here is a couple of pics of the newest residents.

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