My Tomato Clownfish and its host


Lost shroom


My shrooms


A rare coral i got while diving


Dangerous Tube Anemone


My Hawkfish. This guy is really funny and very nosey, always interested in whats going on


My Cowrie Snail in the dark


Snail


My Long Tentacle Anemone and its baby on the left...you can also see another catch i got diving in the top right of this pic...A Nudibranch


Finally my Hawkfish again and another rare coral. This coral was growing on a plastic water bottle some IDIOT threw in the sea. I carefully cut around it and amazingly it came off perfect.

Very nice. That hawkfish looks like quite the character. fishy

How long have you had this tank running?

Very nice colors! How many did you actually collect?

Thank you Aura. I've had it running for 8 or 9 years.

Thanks cturner. I got around 4 of the hairy rare coral, which is not rare here, they are so many of them in one area i found, but have not told anybody about it cause some people will over do it and start using tools to force them out and stuff. I also got so many different fish and a few other corals, anemones, inverts.

That sounds like it would be alot of fun!

Yep. I also hope in my next life to have my own house in the sea ohhh please ohh please ...or just wish to come back as a Merman :blink:

Looks great, geelite!

What size tank is it?

Do you have a refugium?

What is your full live stock list?

I absolutely love SW tanks. My husband and I set up a nano reef last year, planning to go fish only with live rock. I made a mistake and set up a tank that we already had and the structure was dependent on the hood that came with the tank, so this limited me on expanding my lighting like I needed to in order to be able to keep more live stock. Since we have a rather big move coming up, we sold the tank and it's inhabitants and are planning on starting over once we're in Kentucky.

I'll be more confident the next time and learned alot with that tank, enough to know that you can't be content with just fish! You've got to have all the "extras"!

Kim

Thank you Kim. My tank is 190 Gallon, its the tank that i converted to Malawi recently. I had it fully loaded with DIY Refugium, DIY Sump, UV, Ozone, 2 x Canister Filters, Water Conditioner (Chiller, Heater & UVc), Skimmer, System Controller, Nitrate Dinitrifier, Calcium Reactor, Lighting & LEDs.

Fish - Pseudanthias squamipinnis (Anthias) Pseudochromis fridmani (Dottyback), Amphiprion frenatus (Tomato Clownfish), Chrysiptera taupou (Blue Damsel) , Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Hawfish), Halichoeres chrysus (3 Spot Yellow Wrasse), Ecsenius bicolor (Bicolor Blenny), Paracanthurus hepatus (Blue Regal Tang), Acanthurus leucosternon (Powder Blue Tang), Zebrasoma desjardinii (Sailfin Tang), Centropyge bicolor (Bicolor Dwarf Angel), Enneanectes atrorus ***, Petroscirtes xestus ***, Amblygobius albimacula (Dragon Goby) ***, Istigobius ornatus (Gody) *** - Stars are the ones i caught myself diving.

Other - Yellow tip pink long Tentacle Anemone, Tube Anemone, Sand Anemone, Local Anemone ***, Various Mushrooms, Various Polyps (Some Local), Caranation Coral, Hairy Coral***, Brain Coral ***, Various Crabs, Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, Glass Shrimp ***, Blood Shrimp, Various Snails, Cowrie, Vaious Nudibranch ***, Leather Coral, Xenia Coral.

Sooo hard to remember everything dumb dumb ...hope i got it all.

Kim i think we have all made mistakes blinky and GOOD LUCK in your next one in Kentucky...i used to have 6 SW tanks, learned alot in the past 12 years of SW and now hopefully no mistakes in my Cichlids ohhh please ohh please ohhh please ohh please

Wow, that was some set up! Do you have any of them running now?

I had no problems with my water and salinity, etc...I just wanted to do more than the tank would allow once I got started! That seems to be the story of my life as far as fish go!

Kim

No no more SW tanks. I had way to much work for the past 2 years and had to sell them off. I will be having a MASSIVE tank hopefully in the near future ohhh please ohh please

What i would also like to share with you is i also had some Cuttlefish i caught while diving and one day scared them and ended up with black inked water dumb dumb and no skimmer was installed so they ended up dead Why you little.. in one of my other tanks not my reef tank Now this should be good!

Oh and i also had various starfish*** and a sand startfish*** in my reef too which i just remembered dumb dumb and also ended up with loads of baby stars Bouncy

Ah, you weren't around the forum when my starfish came apart and all the "pieces" were still alive moving around the tank! Giggly

I think the Cuddlefish incident would have pushed me right over the edge!

I'm envious of you being able to dive and collect your own stock!

Kim