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Welcome back Jon. Glad to see a few years later the itch returns. Stocking list looks good, though you will probably have to donate the cardinals away after a few years. The sexy shrimp are a good call with the maxi nems, ours host together and are pretty cool. Maybe a pistol for the yasha goby?
That is a tough call. I don't think the leds in the JBJ hoods are really all that amazing. I think you can do well with them, but I would not really choose those if given a choice. We had the 12g jbj with stock LEDs and were underwhelmed. T5s are tried and true and would work. If you were...
Funny little story from last night. I have an ato for this tank but have just not set it up, just a combination of laziness, procrastination and busy end of the year stuff. I basically top the tank off by hand with 2.5g jugs. I woke up this morning at about 5 am to use the mens room and was...
Your old tank was gorgeous so I really hope you can repeat that.
Are you staying with the stock hood over the JBJ or are you taking it off? Obviously if you take it off it would give you a lot more choices that just the compacts or leds. For example we are running a kessil over our 30g cube...
I always like to keep clowns in pairs, they are just more interesting that way. However, that does not mean you cannot get another wrasse. You can look at the possum wrasses which are very peaceful and stay relatively small. You could also look at a flasher wrasse (mckoskers or carpenter for...
That fish came from LiveAquaria in 2011, it was part of a pair and only that one survived. Obviously we have had her for a while now. So far has been coral safe which is completely random.
Katherines fairy wrasse:
Golden Rhomboid:
Katoi:
Female Clown, one of my first fish in the hobby, had her since 2009
Feminus:
Group:
Black tang which is a bugger to get a picture of:
Basically here we are one month later and the tank is doing really well. Almost becoming our favorite tank just because of how easy it is:
Full tank Shot
ORA transparent cave goby
Random Shrooms
Other random shroom
Maxi nem
Cloves, Gorgonian and GSP
Torch
More shrooms
Ric
Cave goby
We ran HOB fuges on our tanks for years but that was because they were nanos and we did not have a sump. Once we upgraded later on to sumps, we switched to reactors because they are just much better at what they do. If you were pressed for space or if you wanted to run multiple medias, yeah a...
I have both and run both together because I think they each to things well. So I have an mp60 on one side and a gyre on the other, creates some crazy flow patterns which is nice.
They are expensive, but C2C does build amazing tanks. I would call around to your local fish stores and see what deals are out there. I know AO and Trop offer some pretty outstanding deals on tanks. I think Trop still deals with a tank maker out of Texas that does very good work. Red Sea now...