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72 Gallon Bowfront Redux

Being relatively new to the hobby I picked up this tank about 3 months ago and have done a ton of changes. If I can find the original pics, prior to me joining this site, I will post them.

Equipment

  • Oceananic 72 Gallon Bowfront Tank
  • Deep Blue 48" Solar Extreme
  • 2x Hydor 4's controllable
  • Wave Maker 4
  • 200 Watt Fluval E-Series Heater
  • 300 Watter Fluval E-Series Heater
  • Amiracle Wet/Dry converted to sump/refugium
  • Eshoppes HOB PSK100-H
  • Mag 5 Return Pump
Live Stock (Fish)

  • Tomini Tang
  • Fox Face
  • 2 Clowns
  • 2 Firefish
  • 6 Line Wrasse
  • Pink Spotted Watchman Goby
  • Scooter Blenny
  • Serpant Star
  • Red Brittle Star
  • 2 x Peppermint Shrimp
  • 1 Emerald Crab
  • 1 PomPom Crab
  • 1 Strawberry Crab
  • Cleaner Shrimp
Corals
  • Red People Eaters (Bought From Roadking)
  • Pulsing Xenia (From Brian - Thermosts)
  • Green Hair Mushrooms (Bought from Tropiquarium)
  • Purple Hairy Mushrooms (Inherited with Tank)
  • Gold Ricordia (Given at Novemeber Snowstom Meet)
  • Green Mushroom (Bought from Tropiquarium)
  • Red Mushroom (Give to me by Aqua Oceans)
  • Purple Mushrooms (Inherited with Tank)
  • Finger Leather (Inherited with Tank)
  • Green Star Polyps (From Keith)
  • Frogspawn (From Keith)
  • Hammer (Bought From Roadking)
  • Torch (Bought From Roadking
  • Ultra Orange Acan (Bought From Roadking)
  • Acan Lordi (Bought From Aqua Oceans)
  • Acan Echinata (soon to be Pauls)
  • Green Slimer (From Herbie)
  • Pocillopora (Won at first Frag Meet)
  • 2x Neon Green Trumpets (Dnov99 and Howze01)
  • Purple Trumpet Corals (From Howze01)
  • Candy Canes (Inherited with Tank)
  • Unknown Acro (From Herbie)
  • Unknown Acro Frag (Bought From Aqua Oceans)
  • Miami Vice Zoas (From Mnat and Nikki)
  • Unknown Zoas (Given to by Roadking)
  • Unknown Zoas 2 types (Bought from Aqua Oceans)
  • Chaeto
  • Unknown Red Macro Algae

I think that just about sums it all up.

So far the growth I've had is as follows:

Red people Eaters - Started with 3 heads, Now at 11.
Candy Canes - Started with 2 heads, Now at 4.
Acan Echinata - Started with 3 heads, Now at 4.
Ultra Orange Acan - 15 Heads, Now at 17.
Neone Green trumpet started with 2 heads, now have 3.
Unknown Acro from Herbie has completely encrusted the epoxy I used to mount it.
Frogspawn, Hammer, Torch, purple shrooms, trumpets never counted so cant say.

What I have now:
Acan Lordi purple/white stripes - 6 Heads
Miami Vices - 8 Heads
Unknown Zoas From Aqua Oceans - 28 Heads
Unknown Zoa from Novemeber Meeting - 2 Heads

If anyone can help me identify any of the unknowns I would appreciate it.

Where I want to go with the tank:

The think I would like to upgrade the most is the sump but for now my refugium/Sump will do. I use pillow stuffing with a polyester cloth (cant think of the name now) over it that is replaced often, where the bioballs would be. I have two types of macro and refugium mud in the rest of it, with a chamber that has my HOB skimmer and return pump. This seems to be working out for me as the water is much better than using the filter cloth I used to use in there.

Heres some of the pics:


Full Tank Shot
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Right Side of Tank
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Left Side of Tank
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Pink Spotted Watchman Gob With Torch
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Unknown Zoas From Aqua Oceans (2 Types)
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More Pics:
Unknown Acro from Herbie
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Pocillopora
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Unknown Acros From Aqua Oceans
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Acan and Trumpet
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6 Line Wrasse
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Nice looking setup ya have there AJ,thanks for sharing.I like the tomini for a smaller setup nice size tang.I find it amazing that you can rem where you got all yr coral from...
 
More Pics:
Trumpets
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Unknown Zoa from Meeting
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Purple Hairy Shorooms
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Finger Leather
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Mushroom Rock withred, green, gold ricordia and one I got from Paul.
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Red People Eaters
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Hairy Mushrooms
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Foxface
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Miami Vices?
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More:
My Clowns, doing the dance while I was taking the pictures!

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Modified T on inlet to disperse water into sump.
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Some new additions!

Copperband from Jeff

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Dragon Eye Zoas from Greg (27 Heads for $5!)

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Some type of peach/copper zoas from Greg. (14 heads for $5 again!)

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Pink Zoa from Aqua Oceans

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2 Head Duncan from Ultimate Reefs
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Reverse Prism Favia from Ultimate Reefs

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Cool Mushroom from Ultimate Reefs
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Looking good! Lured back into Aqua Oceans huh? How's the Copperband doing? Such a good pickup!

LOL yeah I went back for some water and liked the zoa they had lol. The CBB is doing great, hasnt missed a day of eating so Im happy!

Hows your angel doing?
 
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Out with the Old in with the New!

Got a new SWC160 and Aqueon proflex 2 sump.

First off, anyone with a 72 gallon and AGA pine stand.....This is your sump. Close to 11"x30" making it able to fit through the front doors without having to empty and move the tank while still holding a god amount of water.


New SWC 160 Cone
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Aqueon Proflex 2 sump

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Newly installed
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I had to raise up the SWC in order to get the results I wanted but as of now it seems to be working great. I built this little stand out of PC connectors I found at my local hardware store and just incase I needed to raise it more, I can always screw more pvc in the bottom to raise it up a little more.

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