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Hi All,
We have been busy lately. Lots of socializing in the evenings!  However, I did get the chance to take a few pics of our 2 marine tanks all lit up!
The first pic shows the 50 gal we have in the bedroom. This is also the one I want to fill with stuff purchased exclusively from ecoReef...so folks start posting some frags!
Right now this tank has a pair of ocellaris clowns, a bicolour blenny, two pink bubble tip anemones, a tuxedo urchin, one large black brittle star, two peppermint shrimp, an emerald crab, 2 red scarlet hermits and 2 margarita snails. As for corals we have cabbage coral and a large leather, a large candy cane colony, some purple mushrooms, green ricordia and lots of green button polyps. I would definitely like some more variety in this tank, the button polyps really draw your eye so it feels like they are the only corals around!
As for equipment, we have 3 powerheads, 2 heaters and 6 regular output bulbs (3 life-glo and 3 actinic).
In the kitchen we have our 120 gal. It is our pride and joy. We love it and watch it all the time. This tank is full of life and I will frag some of these for my other tank but I want to expand and get more variety...I don't want two of the same. As you can see form the photo, this spot also doubles as my home office. So, whenever I am on the computer I can keep an eye on the goings on in the tank. It also helps relax when computer programming gets you frustrated!
For livestock we have, one pink skunk clown (male)...the female died unexpectedly likely from eating a bristle worm (see my post entitled Intro to our Home Tanks for more details), 2 yellow tail damsels that produce eggs every 2 weeks!, 1 orchid dottyback, 1 yellow wrasse, a large black and yellow brittle star, 2 peppermint shrimp, a pistol shrimp that is getting to look like a small lobster!, 2 scarlet hermits, 3 pink bubble-tip anemones (they keep splitting!) and 1 astrea snail. We have lots of corals...pink-tip acropora, pink and green and just green candy cane, cabbage coral, pocillopora, toadstool leather, devil's hand leather, galaxea with barnacles, green torch coral, green open brain, pink and green brain, a fluorescent green SPS that I don't know the name of (rescued from the save-a-nemo), green button polyps, 4 kinds of mushrooms, frogspawn and finally it's not a coral but we have a really cool brown sponge...or yeah and a mussel. Whew...I hope I got it all!
For equipment we have 5 powerheads, 2 heaters and 4 VHO bulbs (IceCap 660 - 2 Actinic White and 2 Actinic Blue).
Also, both of these tanks have lots of pods, I see them scurrying around at night and when the lights come on! We feed our marine tanks once a week and we use real seawater filtered through a sand filter than a 0.1 micron filter for water changes. This helps keep the balance of nutrients and eliminates the cost of supplements. We do get a film of phytoplankton growing on the surface that gets mixed with our surface pointing powerheads, but this is excellent natural food for all our corals and filter feeding inverts.
I am off to work now! Have a good day!!!
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