[ahayes]

Hi. So I am new to the site. I introduced myself in the new members section but Thought I would introduce myself and the tank here. I have a 90 gallon reef tank, sump, compact flors, etc....

It was previously a fish only tank with nice mature rabbitfish, angels, eel... etc... and then disaster hit about 6 months ago. I was out of town for a week. Had someone coming over every couple of days to feed my fishes. I guess after she left from here after feeding one day some neighborhood kids though it would be fun to turn off our main power switch. needless to say when my person coming to feed came back the house was without power and all my precious babies were floaing. It was devistating.

After cleaning everything up. I decided to do the tank this time as a docile fish reef tank. I decided to stick with softies and such since I dont currently have halides. And i tend to prefer the softies anyway.

So the rebuilding process began and now is looking like a fish tank again. I currently have several types of zoos, mushrooms, lettuce sponge, orange frilly sponge, star polyps, gorgoinia, and one large ritteri.

As far as fish go i have 3 cardinals, 3 lyretail anthias, two true percs, potters leopard wrasse, yellow goby, citron clown goby, pygmy cherub angel, midas blenny, green mandarin, and a many banded pipefish. I also have a potters leopard wrasse and a midas blenny which i couldnt get a pic of. I am happy with all my fish. I know the gobies are usually inexpensive but they are some of my favoirtes, they just are so cute, they make me smile.

I also have a mated pair of banded coral shrimp, a few serpent stars (but you never see them), a few peppermint shrimp, and some blue legged crabs.

My rock work is in progress. I am working on building up the two sides of the tank. So the look will probalby change a bit in the next few months. waiting for some live rock to come in next week through a guy here. so exciting...

Well i think thats about it for now. Just thought i would introduce myself and my tank. Looking forward to getting to know you all.


Ive attached photos of my tank and some of the inhabitants.

[ahayes]

here are some more pics of the tank

[ahayes]

heres a few more...

[ahayes]

last ones...

[e_baer]

Ahhh....here are the pics!

Looks fantastic! What kind of lighting are you running?

[spanko]

Everything looks good. I love the pipe fish. He is so colorful!

Oh yeah and to RB!

[ahayes]

thanks everyone. glad you like the pipefish, he is pretty cool! i had a sad day yesterday for some reason my potters leopard wrasse died. ive had him for about 3 weeks or so and he had been fine. not sure what happened ???
anyway i have compact flourescents and blue.

amanda

[Ciroth]

oh my god im a huge gorgonian fan where did you get yours? Those look amazing!

[ahayes]

Ciroth---

yeah i love the gorgonia too. very intresting and love the polyps they get and the colors. i actually found those at a lfs that i frequent in temple terrace they had a few nice pieces.
i went searching around last weekend for some other fish stores in tampa and found one i love its called westside aquarium. the owner is really nice and very knowledgeable. they have direct connections to a supplier so he has some nice stuff and i can make requests, plus his prices are fantastic. he is currently getting me some of the blue gorgonia and a couple green clown gobies (theyre so cute). anyway the place is great its also where i get the sponges i have.

[Ciroth]

Oh man I can't believe that, I was in Tampa a week ago on vacation and I couldn't find a LFS anywhere! I figured that would be a great spot to even open my own LFS. Good luck with the green clown gobies. The few that we have gotten in havn't done well. Then again you seem to do great with sponges and stuff so who knows. Let me know how the turn out!

[ahayes]

oh yeah that sucks... if your back over here check them out. great prices!!! anyways the owner there mentioned that the last few times they have gotten green clown gobies they havent fared well. but.. i really would like to have a couple so i thought it would be worth a shot. i currently have a rusty clown goby and a yellow goby and they are doing fine. so maybe???? the sponges ive gotten are doing fine so far also. i love the red lettuce sponge, looks really nice in the tank.