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Very cool find at the the ORA booth at MACNA. Captive bred McCulloch's clownfish. Here the video below. The fish is in the bottom right corner.


http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_tim...id=8MZ76ofrJMY

I just realized that I hadn't posted any updates to this project since Thanksgiving. I guess I will start with the punch line and move back from their. As of right now I have both the 180G Reef and the 245G tank set up and running with my ASM G6 skimmer, heaters, and 100G Rubbermaid sump. I still have to install my Vortecs, calcium reactor, and carbon reactor but at least I have thing up and running. Here are the latest full tank shots.

180G Reef Tank

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After all of the Thanksgiving Festivities yesterday, I got some motivation to aquascape the 245G. At MACNA, I had purchased a bunch of Marco Rock to use as the rock for this tank. I was really happy with the rock and how it came together. I ended up going with 4 separate islands. Here are the pics on how thing turned out.

Full Tank Shot



Left Side

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Here is the latest update on the progress that I am making with the fish room and display setup. I have finished the second breeding rack, including foam, paint and installation. I used the same process as with the first breeding rack. Here is a pic of it completed with the rubbermaid sump underneath.


My skimmer arrived about a week ago. I have taken it out of the box but I haven't put it together yet. ...

After much thought and consideration came to a rather big decision regarding this build. All along I was struggling to really fit the 180 G tank (my current reef) into the fish room. After playing around with the tape measure, purchasing 2 100G rubbermaid feed troughs, and some consideration, I decided that I am going to build my 180G into the wall and keep it the current SPS reef that it is today. As for the 245G, that is going to be a large angel, butterfly species tank. Both tanks ...