RT's 120G build (1 Viewer)

[Theg001]

Awesome anglerfish. Where did get him from?

 

[RyanTurner]

Awesome anglerfish. Where did get him from?

Jason at Minnetonka Petco.

 

[Jboulerice]

Awesome Tank & stant; truly love the flush mounted controller...

However a former predator fish I don't know if you where aware; you basically just bought your one and only fish by purchasing that angler...

I used to be big into predator fish; starting with a snowflake eel, getting 4 fuzzy dwarf lionfish; two leaf fish and then finally; the frogfish....

Do you remember kirby? well your frogfish not only gets to be about over a foot; he can eat a fish double the size of its mouth; He will; and don't let anyone tell you otherwise, lure all of your upcoming purchases right to his mouth without doing a thing...

I've seen maroon clown fish from hitting the surface of the water swim right into the frogfish I had at the time's mouth immediately. In addition if you cannot ween him to eating frozen silversides using a feeding stick and garlic; he will suffer intestinal problems and die quickly eating goldfish and other feeders.

I wish i could find a picture of my friends exact same frogfish to prove they get that big but alas I'll settle wish show my old pup:

 

[RyanTurner]

Awesome Tank & stant; truly love the flush mounted controller...

your frogfish not only gets to be about over a foot; he can eat a fish double the size of its mouth; He will; and don't let anyone tell you otherwise, lure all of your upcoming purchases right to his mouth without doing a thing...

I've seen maroon clown fish from hitting the surface of the water swim right into the frogfish I had at the time's mouth immediately. In addition if you cannot ween him to eating frozen silversides using a feeding stick and garlic; he will suffer intestinal problems and die quickly eating goldfish and other feeders.

Awesome fish! Yeah, I know they are predators. I'm setting him up in another tank. I also have a line on saltwater feeder shrimp and damsels/chromis, so no goldies or guppies here. Thanks for the comment. Sorry I missed your post earlier!

 

[RyanTurner]

Here's the beginning of the new set-up.

I will be plumbing it into my existing setup. Does anyone have any recommendations on a return pump to the 20 gallon?

 

[RyanTurner]

Bump. Any pump ideas?

 

[RyanTurner]

Also, I'm looking to get my feet wet in the LED side of lighting. I'm thinking a 26 long, 5 inch wide heatsink over the top of the 20 gallon. I want to know the ideal combo of LEDs. I've seen 1:1 ratio of royal blue, to cool white but is there other setups? I think I'm going to make it dimmable as well. How many LEDs would I need to keep mushrooms, zooanthids, and LPS in the 20?

I'm also looking at this setup

http://www.fishneedit.com/led-fixture.html

The par values of that fixture seem pretty impressive. There's a youtube video on their channel showing them testing it.

 

[Timmy77]

Bump. Any pump ideas?

Mag drive 3 possibly 5 but then I'm a mag drive guy.

 

[RaysReef]

lol, is that stand from Ikea? I bought the same one for my 20G build. :gay1:

 

[RyanTurner]

lol, is that stand from Ikea? I bought the same one for my 20G build. :gay1:

Yup the exact same.

I'll look into the mag drives too.

 

[RyanTurner]

Well, my first attempt at drilling the tank worked out really well.

About halfway through the first hole.

The first hole drilled.

I need another bulkhead.

 

[RyanTurner]

I found an overflow for the 20 gallon frogfish tank. I'll need to cut it of course. Lol

 

[ReefingSAW]

updates?

 

[RyanTurner]

Ok so it's been a while since I've updated this, but it's still going really well.

Firstly, I completely redid this system. Because let's face it. It was ugly and a pain in the butt.

It now looks like this (frag tank).

I also plan on breeding Bluestripe Pipefish, so I took advantage of the opportunity and set up another tank. This is a soft coral/small fish system.

 

[RyanTurner]

I also received some new equipment since the last update.
two of these babies

And two of these babies

 

[RyanTurner]

And first Ill post the coral. Sadly, I didn't get the growth I wanted, and I attribute that to my lack of dosing on schedule last year.

My girlfriend's Goniopora

David Grigor Zoos

African Blue Zooanthids

Leptastrea

Lame picture of Acropora Tortuosa to show polyp extension

Possibly Acropora Valida

Unidentified Acropora Sp.

Blue/Purple Maxi Mini Stichodactyla tapetum

ORA Borealis Acropora

Gold/Green Millepora Acropora Millepora

Scripps Staghorn Acropora

Larry Jackson Purple Tip

ORA Plum Crazy

Montipora Undata

Rommel's Rainbow Millepora Acropora Millepora

Acropora Efflourescens

Montipora Spongodes

ORA Vivid Valida Acropora Valida

Flashlight Acropora (Acropora Simplex maybe?)

ORA Hawkin's Blue Acropora Echinata

Acropora Sp?

Shawn Bennet TriColor (Acropora Secale?) not doing much though.

 

[Reefer Sutherland]

Looks good!

 

[RyanTurner]

Acropora Tenuis

Acropora Tenuis

Gold Tear-drop Tridacna Maxima

ORA Tridacna Deresa

Dragon Soul Favia (I'm pretty sure its a Goniostrea though.)

Miami Hurricane Chalice

Green Slimer, Green Birdsnest

Cool shot of the zoo garden

Blueberry Watermelon Chalice (wow, it's not that blurry in person. lol)

Orange Chalice

Pink Lemonade Acropora

ORA Red Planet Acropora Millepora

Caulastrea

Montipora Monasteriata

Copp's Vesuvious Montipora Montipora Monasteriata

 

[ReefingSAW]

That was alot of new goodies

 

[RyanTurner]

Now for the fishes!

Unidentified Fairy Wrasse Cirrhilabrus Sp?...He is huge though! At least 5 inches.

Snowflake Clown Amphipron Occellaris in Euphylia Ancora

Flame Wrasse Male Cirrhilabrus Jordani

Tomini Tang Ctenochaetus tominiensis

Yellow Watchman Goby Cryptocentrus cinctus

Purple Tang Zebrasoma Xanthurum

Group Shots!