72 gallon Bow Front Reef Aquarium

***This Hobby is very expensive to maintain, as a result I no longer keep. I will however try to answer your questions.***

This is my saltwater reef tank its a 72 gallon bow front, I use a protein skimmer filtration system (is there any other? lol) and a calcium reactor which has been a pain to get working right, a 1200 gallons per hour water circulation pump, a 300 watt heater and a 1/5 hp Chiller to keep the water cool in the summer.

Lighting is 48" CORALIFE Pro HQI Metal Halide/Compact Fluorescent with 4 LED Moonlights.

Currently I have 90 lbs of live rock, 1 Blue Hippo Tang (Dory), 1 Yellow Tang (Randy), 1 Kole Tang (Brownie), 2 False Percula Clown Fish (Marlin & Nemo), 1 Cleaner Wrasse (George) 1 Pacific cleaner shrimp (Delicious), 1 Blood Red Fire Shrimp (C0cktail Sauce), 1 Red Scooter Blenny (Dobby), 3 Goby Firefish (Larry, Curly & Moe) and two Pincushion Urchins.

My soft corals are a Green Bubble Coral, Green Closed Brain Coral, Frogspawn Coral, Purple Mushroom Coral, Orange Mushroom Polyp Corals aka Hairy Mushrooms, Colt Coral, an assortment of Polyp Corals and some Xenia Colony Corals,

Hard Corals are a couple of Capricornis corals and a Cats Paw coral.

So with 600 lbs of saltwater, 90 lbs of live rock and a stand which weighs around 100 lbs in all the entire tank weighs around 800 lbs.

I have to say that running a saltwater fish tank is a lot of work especially when youre doing a 10% to 20% water change every week but its so worth it once the eco system is running smoothly. It has taught me a lot about reef life and what it takes to keep them alive.

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[Therealmany]

Love your tank.... one question, do you have a black backing to your tank????

[mrlurp]

@Therealmany

It does. It has one side which is black, and the other side is a coral reef scene.

[jwalker43081]

hey when you added the tangs was it all at the same time, if not did you have any problems with them?

[mrlurp]

@jwalker43081

The yellow and blue were at the same time, the yellow eye was after and the Blue always picked on him. The yellow eye died of ich. Usually they will be fine together as long as they are not the same color, but blue's are the aggressive ones out of the differing Tangs.

[jlhdza96]

how do you feed the cleaner wrasse?

[mrlurp]

@jlhdza96

The wrasse will pick parasites from the other fish, as well it will eat the food I feed the other fish.

[HugeHeadDavid]

i like how you have all the character from finding nemo all you need is the puffer fish

[MrCobsCorals]

looks nice

[ildefonsoisais]

I really like ur tank!...i have seen so many cool ones fancy..expensive and big..but urs is just fresh clean and simple...along with so many other cool color fish..it makes it look elegant...

[mrlurp]

@theprankster5000

You're probably right. She just staked her claim it seemed, no other fish would try to take it from her.

[skullzz82]

Cool tank man.. Ima get back into reef keeping.. I had a 100 gallon reef tank a couple years back .. I spent about $6,000 on it .. And one day I wasn't home and protein skimmer starting sucking up water out of da tank on too da floor .. And it burned out my surge protector so wen I got back home fish and coral where clinging to life .. Dat was da worst day ever.. But I'm gonna start it back up again this month and dis time going big maybe 250 gallon.. Beautiful tank u have keep on reefing...

[daca623]

nice tank

[haditabonita666]

the clown fish is so cute :3

[frogmaster421]

ditch the xenia or your tank will be covered in it i got a 2 inch frag and within a month it was 1 foot by 1 foot it was growing on all of my rocks pom pom xenia looks better and dosnt take over your tank as quick