Frankie's Wacky Reef Tank

ABOUT MY REEF TANK...

My tank is 75 gallons and has been running for almost two years now. It has roughly 120 pounds of Fiji live rock. It is home to many corals and a few fish. An AquaMedic Turboflotor 1.000 does all the cleaning and 4-110 watt VHO bulbs powered by an Icecap 660 provide the light. Enjoy the pictures and check back later for more up to date photos.

Pictures of some of the many animals in my tank...

My cleaner shrimp and some mushrooms I've had for a long time. After viewing hit the back button on your browser to return.

A very large mushroom with viscious sweeper tentacles. This guy has since been moved into the new reef tank.

My wonderful hammer coral, which died this summer. This was my favorite coral. I'm still looking for a black and blue hammer coral...

My purple plate coral.

A brain coral, one of three in my tank. One of the others is a red brain, and the other is purple.

COMING SOON!!! More pictures including my two Tridacna maxima clams!!!

All photos taken by Brian Krista

Equipment:

  • Lighting:  IceCap 660 VHO Ballast 4-110 watt bulbs

  • Bulbs: 2-03 URI Actinic 2-URI Actinic White

  • Tank: 75 Gallon Perfecto Aquarium

  • Skimmer: 1 Turbo Flotor 1.000 with RIO 2100 Pump

  • Return Pump: Eheim (?) Large Pump

  • 20 Gallon Sump

  • 1 Hagen 301 Powerhead

  • 1 Hagen 402 Powerhead

  • 1 Aquarium Systems Maxi-Jet 500 Powerhead

  • 1 Visi-Therm 200 watt Heater

  • 1 DYS Kalkwasser Drip System

  • 1 25W Blue Moonlight Bulb
  • Many Timers

Livestock:

    Corals:

  • 100-120 Live Rock (Primarily Fiji)

  • 1 Gold Tridacna maxima Clam

  • 1 Blue and Green Tridacna maxima Clam

  • 1 Tridacna squamosa Clam

  • 1 Toadstool Coral

  • 1 Pagoda Coral

  • 1 Tooth Coral

  • 1 Bubble Coral

  • 2 Trumpet Corals

  • 1 Purple Plate Coral (has been dying over the last few months)

  • 1 Red Chili Coral

  • 1 Cabbage Coral

  • 1 Green Star Colony

  • 1 Palythoa (Grandis) Polyp Cluster

  • 1 Sea Mat Polyp Colony

  • 3 Button Polyp Colony

  • 1 Yellow Polyp Colony

  • 1 Green Striped Mushroom Rock

  • 3 Red Mushroom Rock (some bumpy, some smooth)

  • 1 Metallic Green Mushroom Rock

  • 1 Blue Mushroom Rock

  • 1 Growing Elephant Ear Mushroom

  • ? Other assorted loose mushrooms and polyps

  • 1 Open Brain Coral

  • 1 Red Open Brain

  • 1 Purple and Yellow Open Brain

  • 1 Huge Purple Gorgonian

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    Fish:

  • 1 Black Clark's Clown

  • 1 Percula Clown

  • 1 Purple Pseudochromis

  • 1 Watchman Goby

    Other Inverts:

  • 1 Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp

  • Many Blue Legged Hermits

  • Many Scarlet Reef Hermits

  • Many Serpent and Brittle Stars

  • Many Sea Cucumbers

  • Many Astreria Snails

Trace Elements:

  • 2 mL SeaChem Calcium twice weekly

  • 4 mL SeaChem Reef Complete twice weekly

  • 2 mL SeaChem Reef Plus twice weekly

  • 5 mL Kent Strontium twice weekly

  • 5 mL Kent Iodine twice weekly

  • 1 Tsp Mark Weiss Coral Vital periodically

  • Kalkwasser top-off periodically

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Email: frankieswackyworld@bigfoot.com