Caring for these beautiful creatures

 My 125 gallon tank.



This is the largest tank I have ever had and love it.
It is my dream tank and when I moved to my new home I new it was the next step
for my saltwater hobby.
It was set up on   1-25-06  using live rock, new Southdown sand seeded from my other tanks
and water from my other 4 tanks to get it started.
It cycled very little that way and was ready for the fish from day one.
I did lose 2 damsels( not much loss but a loss just the same) a few weeks after setting up the tank
but all of the rest of the fish are doing great and as you can see my the new page about the True Perculas spawning
in this tank, all is well.

I have an AquaClear 500 on it for filtration but believe in a lot of live rock, live sand and filter feeders to take
care of the cleaning in the tanks I have.
I scrape the glass daily to get the pretty bright green algae off the glass as my tanks have high nutrients in them
because I feed heavily.

I bought a new  72" Orbit fixture with VHO bulbs and moon light for this tank and its the first time I have had
the moonlights and love them.
I sit after lights out and everything has gone to sleep to see what's scurrying around in the tank.
It is amazing the amount of little pods , worms etc that come out  after dark.

They are all a must for a stable tank I have always believed.
I have Bristle worms in all of my tanks and also believe they are a must for part of the cleanup crew  as they are
scavengers and will clean up most anything that falls to the bottom.
I have never had them eat anything else in my tanks.

I have 25 blue legs hermits and around 100 snails in the tank also for cleanup.
One thing I do have in every tank that I have is cleaner shrimp, they are great for eating Mysis shrimp
that missed the fishes's mouths and drops to the bottom of the tank.
I feel they are important for all of my tanks.
They also keep my fish free from parasites so they are a multi task animal.
I do not keep any hard corals, don't like them. Only soft so no need for dosing in my tanks.
I add nothing to them.
Water changes are done when I get around to it.
Usually ever few months I do a 20% water change.
I use tap water for top offs.
I know, everything I do is against the norm but it has worked for me for 9 years now so I stick with it.

Now for the pictures of my new baby....................
The start (and now the finished product on 10-27-06)


Much to my delight my True Percula clowns, less then one year old an in there new home less then
2 months have laid their first eggs under there favorite Anemone.
How cool is that!




All of the corals were taken from my other tanks.
And now below with my new camera, pictures taken 10-27-06





Below is one of two  Anemones that I have added to this tank recently , 2007 and they are doing very well, and are in the bottom front left of the tank now.























Flower Anemone below




 
My first attempt at fragging and it turned out real nice, I fragged
four pieces off of my mother colony of Leathers and all are doing well
one turned into a heart shape below.


















My beautiful female True Percula, this picture was taken on 3-5-06



Xenia Frag started from my 75 gallon tank. Doing well and growing new babies.



I will add new pictures as the tank grows out. Hope you enjoy seeing it
as much as I have enjoyed sharing it with you.

Updated pictures below. 125 on September of 06
Amazing how things have grown and filled in.



 







There is so much more in the tank but I don't want to bore you with it all, but you get the idea.

 Updated 125 picture.It now contains 14 BTA's. All splits. Two LTA's that are in the bottom Left front corner and one Green flower Anemone but it stays hidden.