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11-14-2006, 06:17 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Watervliet, Michigan Age: 37
Posts: 88
Karma: 3
 |  Well look what I went and did!!
I couldnt resist any longer! I was getting tired of being limited to what I could add to my little nano cube tank so I went out and bought a 55 gallon. Im not sure what I plan on doing with my 12 gal. nano just yet. I either plan on keeping it as a quarantine tank or I might make it into a reef tank and keep a couple of yellow ponies. Any suggestions?? Not sure if thats even the right type of tank to keep the horses as they need some room to move as well. Not sure if Im ready for that challenge but eventually I want some horses. I dont quite have my 55 gallon goin yet due to the fact that I have to add support to where I want to put it. I want to put it on my bay-like counter that divides my kitchen and living room which will look just awesome there. I was alos wondering if I had enough lighting for my 55 gallon? I purchased 2-65 watt 10,000k Daylight and 2-65 watt true actinic 03 blue straight pin compact lights. Is that enough? Will post some pics when it is up and goin!! Im excited..
Q
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Tank Contents:
55 gal
30 lbs. LR
70 lbs. LS
1 BTA
2 ocellaris clowns
1 yellow tang
2 3 striped damsels
2 blue reef chromis
1 lawnmower blenny
Yellow polyps
Star polyps
3 hermit crabs
11 snails
*Also have a 12 gal nano cube tank
that houses 1 picasso trigger | 
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11-14-2006, 06:47 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Age: 25
Posts: 177
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Congrats on the new purchase, it usually doesn't take very long 
The light depends on what you want to keep but it is definately enough for a nice display.
You could turn the Nano-cube into a macro tank
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30 Gallon Oceanic Hexagon- 70 lbs Sand -60 lbs LR
Aqua C Remora w/ MJ1200.
Inverts:1 Tonga Fighting Conch (Strombus gibberulus) 3 Mexican Turbos (Turbo fluctuosa) 5 Astrea Snails (Astraea tecta) 3 Red Foot Algea Snail (Norrisia norrisi) 1 Lavender BTA (Entacmaea quadricolor) 2 Olive snails Olivella sp. 15 Nassarius vibex 1 Pistol shrimp....polyps...zoas...shrooms
Fish: 1 Coral Beauty (Centropyge bispinosus) 1 Two spotted goby (Gobiusculus flavescens) | |
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11-14-2006, 08:30 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Collinsville, Illinois Age: 24
Posts: 92
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With that lighting setup yo uhave about 4.7 watts per gallon which is fine for LPS & Softies. If you were wanting some Acro's or Clams I would up it to about 5.5 - 6 watts to be safe. If you added one 150w Halide you'd have 7.45 wpg or if you added one more 65w PC you'd have about 5.9 wpg. I know it has something to do with the depth of your tank too but 55's aren't that deep so personally I think you'd be fine. Good luck w/ it. Post some pic's if you get time!! 
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50 gal Oceanic - 40 lbs Fiji Pink Live Sand - 63 lbs Fiji, Alor & Sulewesi Live Rock - 250 watt HQI 14K Metal Halide - (1) Seio 620gph PH & (1) Maxi-Jet 900 (1) Maxi-Jet 400 - ProQuatics 1200 Canister filter - SeaClone Skimmer - IceProbe Chiller -- 1 Black Ocellaris Clown & 1 'Regular' Ocellaris -- Pink & Blue Ricordea, Green Bubble, Blue tipped Acro -- Fire Shrimp, 3 Peppermint Shrimp, Blue Legs, Turbo's | |
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11-14-2006, 09:35 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Carpentersville, IL Age: 52
Posts: 874
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Be careful, look what happened to me.
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300 Reef; 325LR, 1/2" sand bed in tank, 3" sand bed in 215 gal sump/refugium and Berliner PowerPro SS twin becket skimmer. 210 Reef; with 225 lbs of LR, 300 lb DSB, Large W/D and Jebo 520 skimmer modified to accept a becket. 90 RR FOWLR; tied into the 300's sump with a closed loop for extra circulation. 55 hospital. | |
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11-14-2006, 10:29 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
Posts: 1,200
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haha... you went bigger. Let the fun begin!
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30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol. | |
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11-14-2006, 11:44 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: New Mexico Age: 23
Posts: 895
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Alsome!! Keep us up to date on the build. I have a 55 right now that is a rift vally cichlid tank, but ever day Im getting closer to just redoing it and putting my 15 gallon nano stuff in there, he he he  . Congrats on the upgrade, and good luck,
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11-15-2006, 07:43 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Watervliet, Michigan Age: 37
Posts: 88
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Wow to blade runner on the 300 gallon tank. That is incredible! Would like to see some more pics once its up and running!!
Q | |
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11-20-2006, 04:35 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Baton Rouge Louisiana
Posts: 70
Karma: 109
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Welcome to the 55 club! It will seem so big compared to what you had, for awhile!  A year ago my 55 seemed to big to ever make look right on my very limited budget. Now it almost feels like a nano tank!  _________ 90 gal reef
30 gallon sump
skimmer
penguin 550 power head
T-5 HO 48"
Double compact Flouresents
120 lbs. live rock
coral beauty angel (LSU mascot Mike the tiger)
scissortail dartfish gobie
swallowtail angel
engineer gobie
clarkii clown
six line wrasse
Mimic Lemon Peel Tang
pink and emerald green frogspawns
green, white, purple star polyps
tourch, 6 varieties of shrooms, 5 varieties of polyps, etc. etc. | |
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11-26-2006, 06:21 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 441
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Congrats on your new tank, ENJOY! | |
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11-26-2006, 08:19 AM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 1,066
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Congrats on your upgrade QTYPIE424 
This is really a "sick" hobby..... gotta love it though.
Good luck with your 55g. Eventually you may end up looking at the 120s just for the fun of it. | |
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