"120 FOWLR that almost wasn't"

[KathyC]

Looks good A, happy to help out
What fish are in there now?

 

[Awibrandy]

Hey Kat! Dog face puffer, Purple & Yellow Tang, Flame & Coral Beauty Angelfish, Gold Stripe Maroon Clown, Male Blue Throat Trigger, Orange Toadfish. And the tank looks empty. The only two others that if I ever find one that I can afford is the Brazilian Banana Eel, and a majestic angel.

 

[OctaviousMonk]

Man I really need to make the trip and come see your tanks in person. I realy like the list of fish you have going, keep up the good work. :smile:

 

[nycmat]

looks nice. BTW thats a real nice tank you have there . glad to see they are real happy there

 

[Awibrandy]

Thanks Octavious! You know you have an open invitation.

Thank you nycmat. I believe they are very happy.

 

[Awibrandy]

It's been some time guess I should give a little update!
I won't bore you w/details. I did have a disaster with this tank a little over a year ago. I bought a PBT who ended up with Ich. In my quest for the medication "Copper Safe" I stupidly took some very bad advice which wiped out my lr. It all went down hill from there. I finally caved in and dosed the tank with "RedSlime Remover" 2 Sundays ago. So far there is no evidence of any of the green, red, or brown slime coming back. Last week I added some sea grass I got from Bob1000. Yesterday I placed two small rocks covered in polyps that are running rampant in my reef. So far none of the fish are bothering the sea grass or the polyps.

List of fish
2 Purple tangs - small one I've had a little over 2.5 yrs. the larger one I've had 2yrs. came from my BF's tank no idea how long she had it before me.
Volitan Lion purchased from NY Aquatics I believe last year
Zebra Eel "" " " "" " "" " "
DogFace puffer had him about 2 yrs.
GS Maroon Clown from NY Aquatics 2 yrs.
Dusky wrasse appx. 1.5 - 2 years
Snowflake Eel a few months now.

Spiney Box fish Thank CB747

And the most recent addition Beautifull Niger Trigger

 

[KathyC]

The tank looks great Awilda I like the addition of the sea grass from Tobin. Where did the Buddah go, not giving the tank good karma? lol

 

[Awibrandy]

Thanks Kat, the Buddah had an accident the last time I took him out to clean them up. He fell and broke his arm. He might be back.

 

[Awibrandy]

Some updates! Five weeks since the "RedSlime Remover" dose. No evidence of any slime trying to come back. Sea grass is all gone. Dusky is up for grabs.:irked:

 

[Awibrandy]

Here's the rest of the crew.

 

[JJSBLM]

amazing.... keep up the good work

 

[Awibrandy]

I wanted to edit, but the last post was to old.


Update

The boxfish died and took with it - little PT, dogface and the niger.;(

The sea grass was consumed by the fish.LOL

Stand fell apart and was replaced with an iron stand.

 

[damian05]

nice awi very nice

 

[Awibrandy]

Not so fast damian05.lol Wait til I post a pic.LOL Those previous pics are old..

 

[damian05]

lol

 

[Awibrandy]

The 120 FOWLR has gone through some changes.

It now has an iron stand.
A 30 gallon AGA sump with 4 baffles.
Eheim 1262 return
Berlin Turbo Skimmer w/mag 7
300 watt Titanium heater
150 lbs lr with another 30 or 40 lbs rubble in the sump.
Approximately 100 lbs of ESV fine grain sand with a little SouthDown mixed in it.
Lighting is now 2 - 160 VHO 1 super actinic 1 white actinic (able to do 3 X 175 watt SE, but have chosen not to do so.) this is the old Hamilton that was on my reef for the past 2 years.

LIVE STOCK

Corals consit of several colonies of crazy weed like growing palys thanks for the 3 polyps rstimeout gifted me with 2 years ago.lol
PomPom Xenia which is also growing like weeds.
Some red mushrooms
Kenya tree
Leather (forgot what it is called)
All of which came from my reef. These are the rejects which are doing just fine.

INVERTS

1 sand sifting star
1 orange knobby star
2 brown serpent stars
They had to be moved from my reef so they wouldn't get eaten by my new harley...

FISH

Black Peacock Volitan Lion
Purple Tang
Desjardini Sailfin Tang
Tomini Tang
Scopas Tang
Flame Angel
GS Maroon Clown
Long Nose Hawk
Male Blue Throat Trigger
Zebra Eel
Snowflake Eel

I'll try and get a better pic in the near future..

 

[Awibrandy]

I am so happy with my reef since Damion05's re aquascape that I re-did my fowlr.

Tell me what you all thinK!


And will one of you moderators please be so kind as to correct my spelling error on post

 

[Awibrandy]

So no one wants to critique my work?:tongue1: It's ok to say you hate it and I should let Luis redo it.:tongueani I'm sensitive, but not that sensitive.lol

Here's a few more pics..

 

[Pinkheine]

Aquascaping looks great Awilda! Looks much more open now. I'm sure all the fishies are loving it!!

All this rescaping going on has me left scratching my head... but I'll leave well enough alone, I fear the headache of trying to rescape would send me into shock. HAHAHA!

Tank looks great!

 

[Awibrandy]

Thank you Syb!!!

Your tank does not need rescaping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is beautiful just as is.
Mine on the other hand had to be done on account of the eels doing their scaping.lol Waiting to see if they'll leave this one alone.:sgrin:
If they don't, then the next step will be rods & epoxy.:shhh: