The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread

[shilala]

Here's a start on the pics.

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by shilala

Here's a start on the pics.

Beautiful Coraline.
First sign of a very healthy environment.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Blueface

Beautiful Coraline.
First sign of a very healthy environment.

Thanks Carlos.
I can grow coraline like a wildman. I just got a whole bunch of base rock and it's getting taken over. I'm thrilled about it. (Doesn't take much to get me excited.)

[RGD.]

While I think that the tank Carlos has set up is just freaking awesome - I really like Shilia's tank in the natural habitat thing and if ever was to set one up, that's the route I'd try. Love that look!

I'm just totally impressed by them all.

Please, please keep the pictures coming!!!


Ron

[shilala]

Originally Posted by RGD.

While I think that the tank Carlos has set up is just freaking awesome - I really like Shilia's tank in the natural habitat thing and if ever was to set one up, that's the route I'd try. Love that look!

I'm just totally impressed by them all.

Please, please keep the pictures coming!!!

Ron

My goal is to dress it up just like the real thing, and make it work like the real thing. The pics don't do it justice cause you can't see all the holes and ledges and tunnels. It really does look like the real thing.
Once the coralline grows over everything it'll be perfect.
I can get some fans and stuff that truly does naturally occur down off the Keys, and get rid of some of the stuff that doesn't exist.
Then I'll get a whole shoal of little fish and voila.

[hotreds]

j/k

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by hotreds

j/k

Never had one of those but did have a nurse one time.
My angels took its eyes out in an attempt to take it out before it took them out.

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by RGD.

While I think that the tank Carlos has set up is just freaking awesome - I really like Shilia's tank in the natural habitat thing and if ever was to set one up, that's the route I'd try. Love that look!

I'm just totally impressed by them all.

Please, please keep the pictures coming!!!


Ron

Ron,
Both are beautiful indeed.

All a matter of preference as to what you want to keep.
That is the beauty of the hobby that it allows so many variations.
If you want my angels, you can't have a reef. In a reef, one can never, ever keep the fish I have as most of them would enjoy it as a wonderful treat and would eat all the corals/sponges.
So we each have our shortcomings but it is that variation that makes it so neat.
My non reef world is about sustaining very rare fish that are known in the hobby as not lasting very long. I love that challenge.

I benefited from both worlds for quite some time. I had the fish only system with the massive, large fish, while my son had the 75 gallon reef only system, with all the corals and the fish that reefs can sustain.
He has since torn his down and left the house so I stayed with my fish only.

At times I am tempted to set up a second tank as a reef system in my living room (I keep my tank currently in my family room). I have ample space for them. I just don't think the divorce attorney is worth it. Wife will clean me out totally if I dare set up another.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Blueface

Ron,
Both are beautiful indeed.

All a matter of preference as to what you want to keep.
That is the beauty of the hobby that it allows so many variations.
If you want my angels, you can't have a reef. In a reef, one can never, ever keep the fish I have as most of them would enjoy it as a wonderful treat and would eat all the corals/sponges.
So we each have our shortcomings but it is that variation that makes it so neat.
My non reef world is about sustaining very rare fish that are known in the hobby as not lasting very long. I love that challenge.

I benefited from both worlds for quite some time. I had the fish only system with the massive, large fish, while my son had the 75 gallon reef only system, with all the corals and the fish that reefs can sustain.
He has since torn his down and left the house so I stayed with my fish only.

At times I am tempted to set up a second tank as a reef system in my living room (I keep my tank currently in my family room). I have ample space for them. I just don't think the divorce attorney is worth it. Wife will clean me out totally if I dare set up another.

Carlos, have you ever seen one of those great big jellyfish exhibits that's just a six foot wide tube that goes from floor to ceiling with nothing in it but water and jellyfish?
I think that's you, my brother.

One day I'm going to build a tank and keep an octopus.
Wish me luck.

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by shilala

Carlos, have you ever seen one of those great big jellyfish exhibits that's just a six foot wide tube that goes from floor to ceiling with nothing in it but water and jellyfish?
I think that's you, my brother.

One day I'm going to build a tank and keep an octopus.
Wish me luck.

No way.
I could never stand that.
Would bore me to death.
I would probably want to jump in the tank like Steve O or something.
Wouldn't be prudent.

I need fun/activity.
That is why I love angels so much.
They are acrobats.
Constantly doing things other fish don't do.
They will go sideways, upside down, all over.
Very curious.
They let you pet them/scratch them.
If I can't have large angels, I just can't see having a tank.
I also love "Mr. Eel" that I have not pictured as he is always hiding in his rock.
He is my Zebra Moray that I have had for many years and hand feed him.
Once in a while, if I am eating doo doo as I feed him, I accidentally have him bite my finger and hang on. Feels like a vice grip. Fortunately, he doesn't have teeth that can hurt me. Just crushing power.
Now imagine me with those jelly fish again.