this is jdak...

[jdak]

Hello, i've made a couple post around here so i figured i'd introduce my tanks. I'll put my puffer tank here and my reef in the non puffer thread. My tank is 150 gallon with a stars and stripes puffer, tomato clown, and a yellow tail damsel. The tank is new and still in the works (slowly). One cool thing about having these two damsels in the tank is that they are a great puffer cleanup crew. The tomato clown came with the tank and i have never returned a fish to a store so i had to keep him. The yellow tail was my first fish i ever bought over 4 years ago for my reef. Their were a pack of them but he is the last survivor. The yellow tail is even a better cleaner. As soon as i feed the puffer, the yellow tail swims right behind the puffers gills and catches all the debris. Very cool....





edit: I haven't got my reef in the other section yet... another day

You can check it you now at http://www.jdak.net and J-P, my site is no longer a forward. Check out the new site. It is also in the works (slowly).

[Lil' Swimz$]

And what a beautiful puffer!

[CarmenH]

Oooooooh! Gorgeous! My LFS has a stars and stripes in right now, I'm so madly in love with him. If only I had a big enough tank...

[jdak]

Ya, they need big tanks. I just looked at this site and they say minimum is 180 tho i did most of my homework before and WWM says 150. I hope he doesn't get too big too quick.

[pufferpuggirl]

Hi jdak, nice to meet you as I don't remember greeting you before today. You have a lovely tank and your puffer is gorgeous!

[Nick]

Is you tank sumped? That can make up the water volume portion at least.

[jdak]

Is you tank sumped? That can make up the water volume portion at least.

Ya, it's kind of a trickle/sump but it doesn't hold that much. Maybe 10 gallons but thats probably making up for the decor and bed space.

[J-P]

Very nice!!

Simple, clean, and stunning photos!

[PolishPuff]

I like it, great job.

[L!$A]

Welcome to the forum & Gorgeous puff!!

[jus85411]

beautiful puffer! i love stars and stripe puffers

[pufferfreak]

I love stars and stripes .

[we_tigers]

Beautiful.

This is my dream puffer, enjoy it and keep us updated

[SammyDee]

Nice tank. I'd add a lil more live rock thou.

[jdak]

Nice tank. I'd add a lil more live rock thou.

That would defeat the whole purpose of a FO tank. I never have to think about hair, bubble, or slime algae in the display. No creepy critters and i performed hypo in the DT when fish broke out with ich. That couldn't be done in FOWLR. BTW, any porous rock becomes live rock in time. I have the trickle and sump stuffed with 45lbs of live rubble rock instead of bioballs. I have my reef with the LR thing going on and i recycle all the reef's water change water to the FO tank for a bit of biological activity. I never made my reef thread... i'll add the pics here...