50G reef tank

[dirtyblacksocks]

This tank's been up about 4 months now, going strong. Finding new hitchhikers on a weekly basis.

It's a 50 gallon Clear For Life with a built in wet/dry in the back. Have a venturi protein skimmer that picks up close to a cup a day of skimmate.

Inhabitants are:
1 gold striped maroon clown.
1 fire goby that has managed to survive residing under a burrow he's made in a rock.
1 fuzzy dwarf lionfish
1 green kelp wrasse
1 yellow tang

Lots of cleanup crew:
20 turbo snails
120 hermit crabs
Various others.
1 arrow crab.

Not sure on all of the corals but the main ones:
Various mushrooms and ric.
Blue sponge
Orange fan sponge
Hammer/torch coral
Leather coral
Polyps
Frogspawn
BTA that split only a week after introducing it recently.

I realize the tank's a bit small for long term and plan on upgrading to a cubed 90-110 gallon in the future with metal halides.

Currently running T5-HO x4 with two nano pumps (one attached to a wave timer) and a 400 GPH pump in the back to keep flow over the rocks in back. Return pump is rated at 500 GPH.

All in all it's doing very well.

 

[fishtankfactory]

Looks good Jason.

I'm thinking about setting up my first saltwater tank in the next two months. I'm sure it's going to be a challenge.

 

[BIGgourami]

where's the lion?

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Let me know if you need any help Charlie. I know the owner from Fish Paradise - which recently shut down, he's a neighbor of mine. I can probably get you good pricing as well as some excellent advice

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

where's the lion?

He likes to hide behind the rocks when the lights are on. Takes krill and silversides from my hands - though he's stung me once or twice as a result. I'll get a shot of him when the actinics are only running and he's more active

 

[Bllib]

I loved the set up when I saw it before!!! Looks great!!

 

[Cohazard]

It's looking awesome Jason! The fire goby is nicer than most I've see, and I really dig the blue sponge

What type of creature is that in the first pic? A nudi-beach? I mean branch.

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Some kind of nudibranch, he just popped up yesterday. Haven't really been able to ID him - those brown stemmed polyps in the last picture just popped up a few days ago too.

 

[Mantis411]

i wanna see that arrow crab

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

You can see him in a few of the pictures - the problem with photographing the arrow crab is that he resides in a cave right next to the clown fish. Whenever I get close to the tank, the clown comes out of his anenome right in front of the crab and challenges me.