Ziggys tank

[ziggy]

Tank 96x24x24 2 holes drilled in side with weir
Sump 48x18x15
Freshwater reservoir 30x15x12 with RO water from Aquamedic standard 150
Evaporation top ups via Deltec kalk stirrer
Skimmer Deltec AP850 fed by 2 1060's
Korallin C3001 calcium reactor
Return from sump hailida HX8500B
Lighting 3x400w 10k BLV's
Sump has 2 mangroves in arogonite substrate lit by 6500k MH on reverse lighting period.

Main tank has 2" aragonite sand bed (will gradually add more)
Approx 90kg of living rock, mixture of fiji, caribbean and red sea.
Circulation via two 802's on wavemaker at opposite end to sump return (powerheads located within weir with tubing attached to reach into main tank to avoid any accidents to fish)
2x Tunze 4002 run by Tunze powertimer 708
4x Ehiem 1060 controlled by an Advanced Aquarium Products Aquasurge 4 way wavemaker.

Hard corals

1x neon green hydnaphora SPS
1x leptoria spp
2x purple tipped acro SPS
2x green acro SPS
2x brown acro SPS
1x A millepora (blue)
1x A Millepora (green)
1x galaxea fascicularis
1x Tubastrea aurea
1x Plerogyra sinuosa
1x Mont.Cap
1x Seriatopora hystrix
1x Pocillopora Damicornis
1x Brown Acro SPS
1x goniopora
1x table Acro SPS
1X Pink plate Coral
Various small frags

1X T.Maxima (Blue)

Soft coral

1x pussey coral
2x Sarcophyton sp
Lots of Pulsing xenia elongata
2x green button polyps Zoanthus sp
various mushroom colonies rhodactis spp
1x Dendronephthya rubeola
1x Gorgonia (encrusting)
various tube worms
yellow polyps
Green star polyps

I'll add the proper names when I can sit here with a book :-)

Fish:

1x mini black angel (that's what the LFS called it)(Centropyge sp)
9x green chromis (Chromis Caerulea)
1x sailfin tang (Zebrasoma Veliferum)
1x pyjama wrasse (
1x Heralds Angel (Centropyge heraldi)
1x Manderin Goby
4x Anthias (1 male, 3 female)
1x Yellow Tang
1x Vampyre Tang
1x Algae Blenny
1x Midas Blenny
1x Sohal Tang
1x Purple Tang

Invertebrates

2x Cleaner shrimps (Lysmata amboinensis)
2x peppermint shrimps (L.Wurmanddi)
2x Harlequin shrimp
2x Dancing shrimp (Rhynchocinetes uritai)
7x smooth crabs living in acro's
2x black brittle stars (Ophiomastix venosa)
"Lots" of red and blue legged hermits
"Lots" of turbo snails
lots of little starfish that came on carribean rock in old set-up which I am trying to catch as they are SPS eaters



Last edited by ziggy at July 08 2002,19:09

[Roblangho]

Got any pics of those candy shrimps unfamiliar with these:)

[ziggy]

Hi Rob,

No photo's sorry, they're sometimes called Dancing shrimps as well, does that sound more familiar? Hoping my friend from work will pop round again soon with his digital camera, if so I'll see if he can get some pics of them, though they're pretty shy.

[Nemo]

Could they be pepermint shrimp? They sway back and forth and tend to hide in the rock work. There is also the camel shrimp which has the same coloration ( red and white striped) only it has a hump on it's back. Rumored to be excellent Aiptasia eaters.

[Doh]

Nemo's correct peppermints and camel backs look very similar and are commonly both called dancing shrimp in the uk. peppermints are excellent in a reef and will(hopefully) deal with any aiptasia problems. camel back's can some times be a problem they tend to prefer corals to aiptasia:eek: