The Puffer Forum

i'm sure you all missed me very much.

just thought i'd stop in and post up what i've been up to here.

For those who dont know, I had a 37g FOWLR tank w/ marineland LED hood and CPR bak pak that housed my fuzzy dwarf lion. Had him for almost a year.

looked like this.


anyways, well a few months back my light fixture died, this made my fish have a fit (he never liked when it was dark, he would freak out and try to jump out of the tank when the lights would go off), and he went on a hunger strike which ended up getting the best of him, RIP Caesar

anyways, my tank kind of fell into disrepair for a couple months as I didnt have time to get a decent light/replacement fish. I just kept the tank running, and topped off with fresh water when it needed it until I could decide what to do. Posted the whole setup on craigslist, but got no interest.

so a few weeks ago I decide that its time to get the tank up and running again and back into good shape. I ordered a Marineland Reef Capable LED lighting system w/ integrated timer, as well as a CPR pre-skimmer for my bak pak and a glass versa top.



I pulled all of my live rock out of the tank, cleaned the glass, rearranged everything and came up with this. I think it is a huge improvement.




and with the night time lights on.



I did some water tests, and miraculously after weeks of no maintenance/light/waterchanges etc. ammonia was 0, nitrates 0, PH 8.3, however nitrates had spiked to approx 100ppm. No big deal, a few large water changes later and everything is under control.

Now for stocking, I'm planning to start adding fish in about a week. Planning on either 2 zebra lionfish or 2 dwarf fuzzies (I cant decide!) and some zoanthids for some color.

I'm also in the planning stage of a custom 10g sump setup. but more on that later.
anyways, thats it for now from me, thanks for looking!

i really like how you stacked those rocks.

Thanks!

Nice Tank! You may be able to get away with a single GSP. Just Sayin.

Great looking tank. Rockscape looks amazing. If your future zoas is not getting enough light (low PAR value), then consider taking off the glass cover since the black strip is blocking out a lot of light. Keep us updated.

Yeah, I was thinking the same about the glass but my dwarf lion jumped.

Perhaps consider eggcrate. It can be cut to fit as well as the glass lid.

i could, but I think i'm done with gsp for a while. My girlfriend has one in a 29 that is doing great, so I can just live my puffer-keeping life vicariously through her.

Welcome back

Terrance wrote:Great looking tank. Rockscape looks amazing. If your future zoas is not getting enough light (low PAR value), then consider taking off the glass cover since the black strip is blocking out a lot of light. Keep us updated.

I agree big time here, I notice a huge difference with the top on vs. off as far as lighting. I'm thinking of getting just a single sheet of glass/plexi for a top, the hinge function is kind of stupid, I end up just removing the top whenever I do anything anyway. I dont want to have it open top due to high evaporation and possibly damaging my $250 light.

Pufferpunk wrote:Yeah, I was thinking the same about the glass but my dwarf lion jumped.

^^ another reason why i want some sort of top, Caesar used to jump big time, when I would be doing tank maintenance, he used to jump a solid 6-8" out of the tank and scare the crap out of me. Luckily he never went carpet surfing and I never got tagged with a spine.

and thank you, everyone for the compliments. I'm glad you like how the rockwork looks!

This light is really doing amazing things to my rock. Keep in mind that this rock was all just white dry-rock from marco rocks. It grew a lot of green and red algae under the old light, but with the new light its really coming alive. This is after only a week or so.




Heres what it used to look like.

Very Nice!

Welcome Back LongGrain. Congrads on the saltwater tank, still haven't been brave enough to attempt one myself yet.