tazzy's 80g reef

[tazzy695]

hi all been here for a while figure it is about darn time to post a tank thread

took all the pics today

well first off this tank is an 80g all glass tank that has been running since Nov of 2007. it has been upgraded from a 75g and only because I decided I didn't want the hassle and risk of the hob over flow so I swapped tanks for one that I drilled.

untill recently I was running bare bottom and lost all of my lps corals and most of the other corals I had I am now running a sand bottom again and seeing good results. however I did experience a couple of losses in the switch back to sand including a yellow tang and my clown tang

fish in this system include
1 yellow tang
1 blue regal (hippo) tang
1 tomini tang
1 coral beauty
1 ebili angel
3 clowns 2 of which are currently guarding a nest
2 or 3 brittle stars
1 bangai cardnial
1 unknown cardnial
1 algae blenny
1 6line wrass
1 hawk fish (not sure what type)

fish I would like to add are
a mandrine or pair
a second yellow tang again
maby a sand dwelling goby of some sort

corals I have are
shrooms
yumas or ricks (not sure which)
galaxia
pink gorgainian
many different zoas and pallys
tyree green toadstool

last of the live stock is my Rose BTA
and macro algae in the sump

Flow is provided by a tunze 6060 for the main flow would love to upgrade to a wave box
return from the sump is a 700 gph tunze pump that runs after head drop approx 300 to 500 gph

Lighting is 4x54w t5ho 2x ati pro blue 1x figi purple 1x ati pro color (the white one)
sump lighting is provided by a led flood light standard household color temp

my skimmer is an asm g3 skimmer standard no mods to it with the sedra 5000 needle wheel pump

well enough of the specs here are the pics

clown watching their eggs by the rbta




my toad stool decided to move it after this pic maby to much flow for it as that is about as far as it ever opens up


mint green pallys


green shroom and bangaii cardnial


a green yuma or rick


the blue rick or yuma


pic of a couple of shrooms also showing the arms of one of the starfish sticking out


galaxia


bangai cardnial


blue hippo and coral beauty


the hawk fish

[tazzy695]

clown in front of the gorgainain


tomini tang and bangaii


coral beauty
this pic dosn't do it justice it is realy dark purple with orange sides


this is my ebili angel


and my yellow tang that didn't want to come out of hiding for me to get a realy good shot


full tank shot


detail shot to show how the lights are mounted
the reflectors and standoffs are 2x ice cap reflectors and stand offs and 2x glo reflectors and stand off end cap sets all powered by a workhorse 7 ballast



this one shows the sump area under the tank


this shows the over flow and my air line coming out of it that I used to eliminate the flushing effect


and last but not least my silencer for the air line a simple 20 oz bottle that way it dosn't sound like a boat motor running

[rickgarant]

what zoas do ya got

[Argent]

Good looking setup tazzy

[tazzy695]

most of my zoas havn't been open for quite a while

[igot2gats]

Nice, clean tank Taz. Your Hawkfish looks like a Pixy Hawk: Cirrhitichthys sp.

[tazzy695]

thank you

as for the hawk i dont know for sure but it was $12 at petco



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[chort55]

Tank looks pretty good marc, I like your scape alot too

[tazzy695]

ok some recent pickups

this one is only about 1/2 inch of a colony that I picked up at reef paradise yesterday


these 2 I picked up from aperry about a week or two ago

[chort55]

That gorg is only a half inch????????? Your right though I do like it

The new pick ups all look pretty good marc!