90 gallon is coming right along

[Tony]

Tank has been up and running for a bit over a week, but I found some 15 year old live rock to put in it   Still a work in progress for sure, but I'll add more photos as things progress.

After the tear down


I love rinsing sand, I think I'll do it one more time just to be safe...said no one ever


Picked a couple of these MS Deluxe LED fixtures from Marine Solutions.  I would highly recommend.


Long spine sea urchin getting in the way of my pictures <3


Kryptonite Candy Cane - First coral


So far in the tank I have 3 Green Chromis, 1 Purple Pseudochromis, 1 Ocellaris Clown, 2 Flame Scallops, 2 Peppermint Shrimp, Full Clean up Crew, and a Kryptonite Candy Cane.


More pics to come
I'm attaching my background tomorrow, because I simply forgot, lol.  Also adding my UV sterilizer, and my MRC MR-1 skimmer here in the next couple days.

[lazylivin]

Tank is looking good, you made some nice choices on equipment for your first salt tank. Looks like you are on your way to having a nice reef.

[Tony]

My pump just came in today for my MR-1 Skimmer





Hoping to get the plumbing done for it here tomorrow. 

[bbtm64]

Looking really nice!

[Tony]

Thanks!

Oh, and I also threw a second heater in my sump this week because temperatures were fluctuating a bit more than I was comfortable with.  House temps changing with the AC on one day, heat on the next night.  Gotta love the fall weather, lol.  Sitting at a solid 79.3 now for 4 days straight with no change

[Tony]

These two peppermint shrimp I have are a terror to the aiptasia population in my tank.  They move around together from rock to rock wrecking any of them they come across.  I had a couple of them that were probably 3/4" tall, and they just sit there and piece it out with each other.

Here they are picking apart a small population of them they found in a hole in the live rock

[Travis8896]

I love peppermints they do wonders I just I had a way to keep the babies alive because my breed

[chromiumlux]

Any updates on your build Tony?

[Tony]

Here's a pic I just took.  Sorry about the lack of updates.  We've been working crazy overtime lately with the storms and now snow/ice.  I'll try to get some more up for ya soon!  =D  The nerites are worse than rabbits, i swear, lol. 

[Tony]

The meteor shower is a little pale, my light cycle was a bit intense for him so i had to dial it back some compared to what he was used to, and my kryptonite is having a panic attack right now because i just picked him up and moved him, lol.

[lazylivin]

Looking good Tony. May want to tuck that meteor shower somewhere with much less light. They don't like much. Maybe 50-100 PAR MAX

[Tony]

Yeah, he's actually only sitting at about 45 par on a 10 hour cycle right now.  The egg crate on top of the tank cuts out a huge amount of the intense spot light so I can keep some of the shy guys out in the open without roasting them.  I didn't plan it that way, but when you mentioned how much light it would probably block last week, I looked into it and found it sort of convenient.

[lazylivin]

Okay sounds like it is in proper light. I ran the lights on 6 hours so maybe it just needs some time adjusting to your 10 hour cycle.

[Tony]

Yeah, he just paled out because when i first put him in he was sitting at around 90 par for the 10 hour cycle.  He's doing much better now though   Colors starting to come right back.  Thanks again

[jake]

Looks good man.

[chromiumlux]

Really looking good! Thanks for sharing.