My 135 Gallon FOWLR

[cichlidgirl]

Here is my saltwater tank. I started out about 8 weeks ago with my first saltwater tank, a 50 gallon fowler tank. Had no "major" issues so in meantime i have been converting and building a six foot tank i had into another FOWLR.

I have it stocked with the following :

1 Humu Trigger
2 Niger Trigger (will only keep one, found out they hide for days in LR haha)
1 Yellow Tang
1 Lunare Wrasse
1 Blue head Wrasse
1 Un ID'd Green Wrasse
1 coral Hogfish
1 Tomato Clown
1 Maroon Clown
2 Red Sponges
1 Scallop
1 chocolate chip starfish
1 green brittle starfish
$60.00 dollars worth of reef cleaning crew that turned into A Trigger All U can eat Buffet LOL

Approx 100 Pounds of Tukani Live Rock

I had 2 groupers that died along with 3 tangs (Naso, Blonde naso and a Kole tang) and an angel and one butterfly fish. I am more careful where i buy from now and also i make the store feed the fish a pellet and frozen food before i bring it home. The groupers starved themselves and the tangs and angel came in super stressed and with ick. Expensive learning lesson.

 

[RyanP]

nice setup, just dont over do it too fast.

 

[cichlidgirl]

Thanks . Im trying hard to not go too fast. Its so addictive LOL. I got more live rock today and doubled the amount of LR in the tank. Now live rock goes from surface to bottom and out both directions stopping about a foot from the side glass on both sides. I worked hard to make tunnels and caverns for the fish . I really like how it looks now. I have to get batteries for the camera but snapped a couple pics with my cell phone. You can get the idea. The tanks water is clean but is hazy from removing about half of my sand (too hard to keep it clean and didnt want cave in problems from undermining). I went from 4 inches all around to 1.5 inches of sand, washed the new LR and then worked on placement. My humu trigger has taken residence in the large white shell so i also worked the big shells into the "reef". I like how it looks. HEre is the updated photo (crappy cell phone pics right after i finished )

I will take a couple more pics of all the new live rock after the haze clears from the water, i cant stand to photograph the tanks when the water is not clear.

I also turned the original 50g salt tank into a tank for my friends children when they come to visit. I like it too, it reminds me of "finding Nemo" LOL. Here is a couple pics of the childrens tank :

 

[Mac.]

very nice...I want one...

 

[cichlidgirl]

Thankyou. Most expensive thing is buying all the live rock i needed for a 6 foot tank. I also learned not to buy a fish (no matter how cool or pretty) if its hiding/nervous acting. I lost several that way, i had just figured they liked to hide in rockwork etc. Wrong.