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damba
12-05-2011, 04:26 PM
This is my second love after discus. This tank is 150gallons and is live rock fish and a few softies. I love my tangs and the white tail is close to eight inches.http://img.tapatalk.com/1f6b1cd8-28cc-1c22.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/1f6b1cd8-28e5-97d4.jpg

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Skip
12-05-2011, 04:28 PM
nice!!

i will be setting my first tank up this week!! well, i hope :)

ExReefer
12-05-2011, 04:31 PM
Nice tank! I've thought about going back to a FOWLR tank at some point now that I have 125G. I've always wanted to keep tangs, but prefer at least a six foot tank for them.

Do you still run a protein skimmer? Sump? What's your set-up?

Skip
12-05-2011, 04:32 PM
i just happen to have a 125.. i thought i would use for discus in the office.. BUT a Marine tank might be better choice.. BUT LOTS MORE expensive.. LOL

damba
12-05-2011, 04:37 PM
External filled with live rock ~ sponges love the dark and are great filters! Tmc 400gallon rated skimmer three 6000lph powerheads sixty kilos of live rock and uv. Lighting is just one blue and one white 48"t5. Stick is fish heavy with some ricordea zoas and a bush coral. The tank is 6~2~2 and yes it is very expensive lol! My favourites are bizarrely damsels but i love surgeons and i have four huge convict gobies.

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ExReefer
12-05-2011, 05:21 PM
i just happen to have a 125.. i thought i would use for discus in the office.. BUT a Marine tank might be better choice.. BUT LOTS MORE expensive.. LOL

I don't know about that. A dozen quality adult discus in a 125G could cost $1,800. Live rock, and skimmer, some damsels, and a few tangs might be close. It's the cost of reef lighting that kills you and you don't need much on a FOWLR tank.

Skip
12-06-2011, 11:11 AM
yea.. i was thinking same after i typed it>> LOL

ghurlag
12-06-2011, 11:26 AM
After 2 years reefing, I would have to agree that lighting is hands down the priciest component for a full-fledged reef with LPS and SPS. Softies are much more forgiving. Livestock wise, discus and reef can be fairly even. You can spend as much as you want :)

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damba
12-08-2011, 05:24 PM
Some posing? Can anyone identify the goby? I really love him
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TNT77
12-08-2011, 05:31 PM
Byno Goby the latin name is Amblygobius bynoensis.

damba
12-08-2011, 05:35 PM
Thanks. He is a real character. Is their anything i should know?

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TNT77
12-08-2011, 05:38 PM
From what little I know they are one of the hardier species of gobies and they max out at around 3". LOL you have now exhausted my knowledge of this type of goby.

damba
12-09-2011, 03:10 AM
So he is fully grown. He is a real earthmover


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Joe
12-13-2011, 09:09 PM
Nice looking! I'm gonna start a 25 gallon reef tank in the near future

Joe

bassistjon112
10-31-2012, 03:14 AM
I have never seen that kind of goby before, was it a special order?

bonginator
10-31-2012, 11:15 AM
Gobys are my favorite. I have been toying with doing another reef tank and now you have me thinking about it again. Thanks (I think!?)

My 125 reef was set up in our workplace and the puffer had such a personality that security gave him his own office nameplate and security badge....