Well I figured that it is about time to start a tank thread over here. Some of you guys might remember the thread when I was first setting up my 72 gallon bowfront. Well that was over 1 1/2 years ago and I figured you might want to see some updated pictures. For those of you that dont know my tank is a 72 gallon bowfront with a 20 gallon rubbermaid bin as a sump. I have 110-125lbs of LR and about 100LBS of LS. THe tank was bought reef-ready. It has an ASM G-3 skimmer and a mag 9.5 return pump, and currently 2 MJ 1200's in the display for flow. Now, I am mostly in this hobby for the fish, but I also got 2 kenya tree frags from a local reefer, so Those are my only corals. My fish are 2 Ocelaris clowns, a yellow tang, a foxface, a 6-line wrasse, and a coral beauty angel.
These first pictures were taken before I cleaned the glass, but it is the only decent pics I got of these fish...
My live rock did not come with aiptasia, I bought them a long time ago when I thought they were cool, they were originally in a 1 gallon pico tank I had set up, then when I tore that down I put my large "prized" aiptasia in this tank, I was so proud of it and I did not know how much they take over. I spot fed it daily and soon, you guessed it, they were everywhere, seemingly overnight. ohh well, mistake.
My fish are not shy at all, and right now looking over at the tank they are all out and about, swimming around, but when the camera comes out they all run (more like swim) and hide, they are just unusually camera-shy. Some of these are a few weeks old because I could not get any better ones right now (I will try harder). But this is as good as I could do right now: