Cottonwood 125 Reef tank build

[OhNoNemo]

Looks good cotton......
After seeing a couple of other full tank shots and now yours,i'm starting to feel like i hace too much rock....i like your look a lot

 

[Cottonwood]

Thanks man! I'm always looking at my rock and trying to decide if I like it or not...I've added a couple more pieces as I still have about 50lbs just sitting in a tank by itself I'm trying to sell off. My clown keeps stirring up the sand, so I've added some pieces in those spots to try to deter her. :grumble:

Also, my anemone just moved back into my rock work where I can't see it or get to it without taking out 3 other rocks....I'm not going to be able to feed it there...Will it move out again once it starts getting hungry? I can't seem to keep it out front, it keeps trying to hide (only had it 3 days now) and I'm worried about it getting back in there and dying.

Pics to come tonight! (not of the cool anemone though :-()

 

[OhNoNemo]

Sorry,i have no clue on nems, maybe post a quick question in inverts
EDIT: :lol: you did

 

[Cottonwood]

After I posted that I thought...hmm...inverts would be a better spot. haha!

 

[Cottonwood]

New lights

New lights

Actinics

Duncan Growing

Clowns

Fungia

Acan

Corals

More

CandyCane

 

[PRC]

oooh..New lights..Those are sweet...There's nothing quite like a nice Metal Halide IMO.

 

[BL1]

Very nice, is that an Odyessa fixture? It looks a lot like mine.

 

[Smitty]

Very Nice! Your tank looks really good...good job!

 

[BryanS]

awesome looking lights

 

[Cottonwood]

Got some new stuff. I think I'm done spending on my tank for a while now!

The colors are all washed out some, but you get the general idea I guess!

Pagoda Cup? am I right?

Not sure what this is...?I like it though, its green under my actinics

This is only a small part of this nem, its huge!

My Fish

New Urchin, he likes it on the glass.

At home in their new tank

New Goby, sleeper banded I believe

 

[BL1]

Is that a pencil urchin? If so, I'd be careful they're not reef safe.

 

[Cottonwood]

Really? I didn't know that. I got it from a guy along with the goby, another clown fish, a bunch of rock and those new corals and anemone. It had been in his tank for year, with his stuff so I put it in mine. I was never going to get one, but I took everything out of his tank because he is moving and breaking it down so I kept him. I sold the Live Rock and clown though. Guess I'll get rid of this guy next time I go down to phx. What do they do? I thought he would just eat the junk off my rocks and glass.

 

[BL1]

for some reason I can't get to the article on reefkeeping.com but, they can actually "Eat" away at your LR and LiveAquaria says they are a danger to corals.

 

[valasaraptor]

Yep mine leaves chew marks on the rocks behind his path and bit a fat chunk out of my toadstool