75 gal pix

/Portals/0/activeforums_Attach/001_2012-10-17_20.50.07-1.jpg this is the 75 tank i just bought saturday in minneapolis and moved to my home in waterloo iowa

 

Hoping i identified correctly
red ,green,blue mushrooms
frogspawn 1 good size head
green zoos pink zoos
leather tree 4-5 of them 1-3"
Pink acro with whit tips (dragon something i think)
Pulsing zenia green center
few snails and red leg hermits
Brown anenomie with green tips.
Maroon clown
blue dottie back?
Pro clear 20 gal sump with skimmer and twin cap 1800 pumps
85+100 lbs live rock
Twin ice cap 175 mh llights
twin vho lights .
Titanium pro heat heater

 

my wife fell in love with salt water after our trip to mexico and snorkeling, then wen we went to AC&C she sparked interest and asked if we could get a salt water reef style setup. i found this tank 2 weeks ago in west minneapolis for 400$ for everything, put down a 50$ paypal deposit and picked it up last saturday, i tore it down packed it up moved it home and set it up all in 18 hrs. onlything that is dirffrent is 18-20 gal of walmart RO water that i needed to top the tank off with as i couldnt get back to get some from AC&C in time.

tank was previously set up for 27 months prior to me, and jason i have been doing salt water about a week LOL

also what is the best way to get rid of the film at the top of the water? if i raise the overflow box any more it cuts off the U pipe as i did it and overflowed the tank a little LOL

 

sweet thats what i was kinda thinking, i have a small power head i can slip in the corner and point at the box tonite and see what it does,



looking foward to getting to AC&C tonight and pick up a couple extra hermits and get my water checked.

 

fed him a cube of myisis shrimp 4 hrs ago and hes all back out and relaxing in the corner of out 75 gal green tip nem. its 6"+ across easy/Portals/0/activeforums_Attach/2012-11-01_22.47.38-1.jpg/Portals/0/activeforums_Attach/2012-11-01_22.47.38-1.jpg

 

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Re arange on the rocks and added corals from fall fest

 

All new stuff after fall fest.

 

Theres nothing wrong with my maxijets i am running. And the biowheel 350 is just to break the surface tension and has no pads or carbon in it at all just a screen to keep the nems safe..

There is no deadspots behind the rockwork as there 2to 4 in off the glass and all my lights are providing adequite pars and i actually could lift the canopy a little to back them off a litle.. and the pumps get moved every couple days and are alternating ok to the best of my knowledge using the redsea wave maker.

It will always be a work in progress and we hav only lost 1 fish due to it not eating. So we are doing fine i believe and i keep the rocks dusted off pertty good on a daily basis.

I will monitor my nitrates every few days and do my water changes and keep my sump toped off to eliminate sg swingsand i am using RO water at 0tds

 

As we move forward we will change things around. Our emerald crabs are keeping up so far with what is present and we had some hair alge here and there and it went away in some spots and we have small patches of cyno as well here and there. And we looked at the mp40s and opted for the maxi's because of the wifes nem's. Theres a curve to salt and we are working our way thru it. Skimmer is broke in good and we have dark skimmate of 2" in a 6" cup every other day.

We will work thru it as we go. The easiest way to explain to the wife what she needs for her tank is to let her expirence it as she is a visual learner and then will understand our choices and expenses.

We talked lighting as i would like to go led and she is happy with the apperance of her VHO and halide setup. So as having a wife that is on fire so to speak for her saltwater tank is a blessing and i will watch to make shure she doesent do something horribly wrong, but i cant just tell here spend big $ on this just because other people think we should. She will need to learn the in and outs to better her husbandry and maintence.


Which shes doing good cleaning pre filters and monitoring our MTO and feeding and light schedule along with checking temps.. i am proud of her attention to detail and enthuasim

 

My hands are really tied till she makes her decision. I have a smsll venture of my own that im working on but we will go from here and just keep updatin our progress and when we get new things we will share how it develops.

The maxis were a less expensive alternative we had 8 of them in various sizes. I point out to her every time we goo to AC&C what they use and how and maybee she might get something cooler than choclates this year.