Nick's 90g Community Tank

Hello,
I am new to this forum! I thought I would make my first post by starting my tank thread! I have a 90g tank with a 40g sump. I have approx 150lbs of live rock and 2" fine sand bed. I want to add about another inch of substrate for a Pearly Jawfish addition in the near future.

I keep my tank at 1.026, 8.4 PH, and Nitrates, etc do not register on my test kits.. I have approximately 2200 gph of flow in the tank via 2 Koralia 3's and the Mag 7 return pump from the sump.

Prior to setting up my 90g I had some fish, rocks, etc in a 30g for approx 6 months while I got everything up and running. I had quite a bit of aiptasia when I started but I used Aiptasia X and added 4 berghia nudi's to the tank to keep things under control. I still get some popping up here and there but use aiptasia x to kill them when I see enough of them getting big..

I currently have a Nova Extreme 4x 54w T5 fixture with LED moonlights which I bought used. It was upgraded with the addition of two more fans built into the top of the fixture and 2 Advance Centium ballasts.

Currently my live stock includes 2 Chromis, 2 Percs, a Spotted Mandarin (have had him 7 months), Green Clown Goby, serpent star, mini carpet anemones, mini brittle stars and CUC.

I want to start adding some easier corals such as Ricordea, Zoas, Acans. I have become particularly interested in Turbinaria and Cyphastrea. Some other corals that I would reserve a spot for are some of the encrusting montipora and branching montipora Digitata. Still a little apprehensive in starting with corals until I read a little more.. not so much with the Zoas and Rics but definately the latter ones I mentioned..

This is my story so far.. and here are some pics of my tank at this point! Any advice is welcome!

 

Mini Carpet Anemone.. I have approx 10 of these little guys.. 1" in diameter



Green Clown Goby in his "spot"



One of my pair of Tru Percs..

 

Nice looking set up.
I like the rock work you did.

 

the other perc



Spotted Mandarin challenging his reflection (always does this)



The "dominant" Chromis.. also the tank boss at the moment.. funny as it is



night time shot of the serpent

 

Thanks! Is that your Copperband in your Avatar? I want to get one.. not till after the Yellowhead Jawfish tho!

 

I regret to inform that I have sold my tank. I miss it already and it just left 30 minutes ago. I'll stay on and keep reading and the next thread I start will hopefully be my in wall tank.. we'll see.. thanks for all the advice I've been given

 

?? Too bad. I really liked the look of this tank.