wide 100 gallons saltwater marine FOWLR aquarium with emperor angelfish and tangs

Wide 100 gallons acrylic saltwater tank with 13 fish: sub adult emperor angel, singapore angel, coral beauty, blue tang, yellow tang, filefish, 2 clowns, royal gramma, yellow wrasse, red hawkfish, scooter blenny, orange anthia.

What's cool is when the emperor makes grunt noises when he's pissed at the yellow tang or blue tang.

Tank has 8 square footprint of circular swimming space (no built-in overflow box which would have used up 1/2 a square footprint). Tank is 48 inch long x 24 inch wide x 20 inch high.

Equipment: 1" live sand, 100 pounds of live rock. Cascade 1500 canister (with DeNitrate rocks product to reduce nitrate biologically), Reef Octopus BH2000 protein skimmer, Koralia Evolution 720 powerhead and Koralia Evolution 1050 powerhead (I no longer use the single SEIO m820 powerhead), Aqua UV 15 watt sterilizer, inline Hydor 300W heater. 25 times water turn over per hour. Two 36 inch 25watt T8 flourescent bulbs.

A CPR Hang-on refugium with chaeto algae to reduce nitrate, phosphate and algae in the display tank. Refugium lighting is 15w flourescent tube from above, 32w flourescent spiral bulb from below, Truelumen 10inch LED light strip from above. If your chaeto is dying, it's because you don't have enough light.

Live rock is arranged as an island in the middle (with 3 large tunnels for a place to sleep) so fish has swimming room around tank's perimeter, Nitrate is 15, salinity 1.023-1.025 (ocean's 1.026-1.027), 10% weekly water change with tap water (nitrate is 10 to start with) filtered by charcoal, phosphate remover and floss, temp 77 winter - 82 summer.

Maintain the best water quality (get a Reef Octopus BH2000 protein skimmer with external pump to minimize heat. Don't buy the useless AquaC Remora protein skimmer because it's noisy, has ugly pump inside your tank, adds heat to your water, and I've only seen it work with the water as dirty yellow instead of clear water). Reduce phosphate which causes red slime cyano bacteria by using Boyd's Chemi-Mat for just 2 days.

DON'T BUY THESE Fragile fish: butterfly, heniochus, and moorish idol because they can't stand up to aggression from emperor tang, coral beauty, singapore angel, and yellow tang so get them their own tank. Moorish idol is a picky eater.

Use Selcon food additive to prevent HLLE disease.

MOST IMPORTANT: This hobby is expensive. This setup is $2500 with a used tank and used live rock. This setup new would be $4000. Add $400 for dead fish... I lost half the livestock in the first 6 months while the tank is getting stabilized. Annual costs $300 for salt, electric, bulbs, replace broken equipment, frozen food.

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Pets & Animals

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• decorative saltwater aquarium
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[checksum100]

What I like about your tank is that all the equipment are hidden, all you see is fishes and rocks. I am getting ready to setup my satlwater tank for the first time, waiting for the equipment to arrive.

[mrpmj00]

@checksum100 Thanks. I did many things to hide the equipments because my tank is not drilled. The grey powerhead has been replaced by black powerheads to blend with the black background. I use the Hydor inline heater or you could put your heater in the sump/refugium. My hangon protein skimmer has the pump outside of the tank. For the hangon refugium, I did not use a powerhead inside my display tank but instead used the canister's return tube to fill the UV sterilizer and refugium.

[Arteolike]

You can keep an emperor in an 100? I wanna keep one in an 160 do you think he will be happy?

[mrpmj00]

@Arteolike Keep in mind I have a WIDE 100 gallon tank with 8 square footprint with no overflow to take up space so its footprint is almost like a 125 gallon tank with an overflow.

Yes, I have my emperor (5-6 inches) for exactly a year now and he didn't grow but he did fully changed colors. They need 1) good food with sponge 2) spirulina flakes 3) nori (brown, green, purple) 4) nitrate below 40 5) food additives (selcon, vitaboost, vitachem, fish solution) 6) 22 times water circulation

[mrpmj00]

@Arteolike I would also get a UV sterilizer of at least 15 watts.

[Nomimasubiru420]

Beautiful tank, i love how clean it is. I have a 55 gallon FOWLR tank right now, waiting till i move and have room to switch it to my 100g acrylic tank.

[mrpmj00]

@Nomimasubiru420 Snails help too but my fish feasts on them. Oh well, at least the fish are healthier eating live food.

[raneve23]

Nice tank

[xjoncamposx]

The colors are perfect.

[zharnotczar]

@varmman It's in the description...

[varmman]

They are so very beautiful! if u dont mind,could name all those species you have :)

[liutcm]

superb tank