Hey all,
First off, thanks to everyone who has posted great build threads here for their 250s. Lots of great tanks to use for inspiration, also great to see so many tanks that run fairly stock have so much long term success.
Danreef's tank thread was one that gave me some recent inspiration in particular.
I just got a used RSM 250 two weeks ago. Had my eye on the tank because a few LFS I have been to run them as display tanks and I always liked the clean AIO look with the beveled edge glass.
I have had a 20g AIO running for about 6 years now, this is my first jump into a larger tank and I am super excited.
I would have posted this sooner, but my camera died on my phone so I had no good way to take pictures!
Here is a shot of the full tank so far.
Have got most of my rock moved in from old tank and almost all of the coral. My old tank had a Zoa eating nudibranch problem, so I have spent the past week and a half dipping zoa rocks in fresh RO/Lugols idodine to nuke the nudibranch population. Seems to have worked well, hopefully zoas do not die -- but there was no question it had to be done.
A couple of closer pics -- my main corals that I had to transfer over were two large chalices, the miami hurricane is about 7-8" across and the (i think) mummyeye is a bit smaller but similarly sized. The one in the center was bought as an avatar chalice, although I have seen it with a few dif names. Might be hard to see in the picture but the avatar chalice had sweepers going crazy.
Acan, about the size of a tennis ball, one of the first corals I ever bought.
Cardinal -- being it's normal self. It spent the first week floating in one spot staring at the back wall of the tank.
African flameback - New addition for the larger tank. Will see how this one goes. I know you usually add the more aggressive fish last, I know dwarf angels can pick at corals. Regardless, when the wife sees a fish she likes (and it isn't a fish like a clown trigger or naso tang) I had to get it =) Will see how it goes.
Stocking list right now:
1x African Flameback
1x Cardinal
1x Orchid Dottyback
1x Yellow watchman goby + pistol shrimp
1x Cleaner shrimp
Planned stocking over time:
1-2 of flasher/fairy wrasses
Ideally a blue star leopard wrasse
Likely a green clown goby. I like small fish and used to have one of these a while ago.
As for corals, I am going to try my luck with more SPS this time around. I have a grafted monti cap in the front of the tank that is in awful condition, my nano was running into rough times towards the end for various reasons.
Not going to go crazy -- would like to get some nice plating monti caps and some branching digitas. I have some sort of green stick SPS that has been doing fine for me -- got it as a $5 frag.
First off, thanks to everyone who has posted great build threads here for their 250s. Lots of great tanks to use for inspiration, also great to see so many tanks that run fairly stock have so much long term success.
Danreef's tank thread was one that gave me some recent inspiration in particular.
I just got a used RSM 250 two weeks ago. Had my eye on the tank because a few LFS I have been to run them as display tanks and I always liked the clean AIO look with the beveled edge glass.
I have had a 20g AIO running for about 6 years now, this is my first jump into a larger tank and I am super excited.
I would have posted this sooner, but my camera died on my phone so I had no good way to take pictures!
Here is a shot of the full tank so far.
Have got most of my rock moved in from old tank and almost all of the coral. My old tank had a Zoa eating nudibranch problem, so I have spent the past week and a half dipping zoa rocks in fresh RO/Lugols idodine to nuke the nudibranch population. Seems to have worked well, hopefully zoas do not die -- but there was no question it had to be done.
A couple of closer pics -- my main corals that I had to transfer over were two large chalices, the miami hurricane is about 7-8" across and the (i think) mummyeye is a bit smaller but similarly sized. The one in the center was bought as an avatar chalice, although I have seen it with a few dif names. Might be hard to see in the picture but the avatar chalice had sweepers going crazy.
Acan, about the size of a tennis ball, one of the first corals I ever bought.
Cardinal -- being it's normal self. It spent the first week floating in one spot staring at the back wall of the tank.
African flameback - New addition for the larger tank. Will see how this one goes. I know you usually add the more aggressive fish last, I know dwarf angels can pick at corals. Regardless, when the wife sees a fish she likes (and it isn't a fish like a clown trigger or naso tang) I had to get it =) Will see how it goes.
Stocking list right now:
1x African Flameback
1x Cardinal
1x Orchid Dottyback
1x Yellow watchman goby + pistol shrimp
1x Cleaner shrimp
Planned stocking over time:
1-2 of flasher/fairy wrasses
Ideally a blue star leopard wrasse
Likely a green clown goby. I like small fish and used to have one of these a while ago.
As for corals, I am going to try my luck with more SPS this time around. I have a grafted monti cap in the front of the tank that is in awful condition, my nano was running into rough times towards the end for various reasons.
Not going to go crazy -- would like to get some nice plating monti caps and some branching digitas. I have some sort of green stick SPS that has been doing fine for me -- got it as a $5 frag.