Tek's 90 gallon macro tank!

[tnwillia]

Beautifule tank and pictures!!!

 

[tektite]

Thanks everyone

 

[landshark]

Beautiful tank and pictures, I especially love to mandarin

 

[tektite]

Thanks! I've forgotten to update this thread lately, work's been crazy. Here's some more current pics from a few weeks ago:

Photosynthetic gorgonian

Papaya clove polyps

Irridescent blue padina

Irridescent blue/green sponge

Purple gonipora

Superman rhodactis

ORA gonipora

Pink kenya tree

Dragon's tongue Halymenia

Green kenya tree

Copperband butterfly

Male green mandarin

 

[jjmoneyman]

Simply outstanding!

 

[tektite]

Most of my macros are actually in the sumps of my reef tank right now. I have a type of hair algae I don't like in the macro tank and I'm working on getting rid of it. Most of it is the turf algae that I like, gives a tremendous breeding ground for copepods that allows me to have 2 adult mandarins in a tank this small.

Speaking of the mandarins, they're mating almost every night now, sometimes twice a night.

A baby mandarin at 44 hrs old:

 

[mcentire1123]

Congrats!

 

[PSU4ME]

I Know it's been a while but hows the tank doing? Ever get those baby mandarins to live?

 

[tektite]

Hasn't been changed much, lol. Never did get the time/resources to raise the young mandarins unfortunately. The tank's suffered from a bit of neglect, the fish are all still fine, but macros haven't done so well. I've got another temporary macro tank set up to try to keep some kinds of macros alive until I can get the nutrient levels back into check again. Despite terrible conditions including phosphates over 1.6 (yes the decimal's in the right place lol), my ORA red goniopora's continued to do well, almost had it 3 years now Even with fragging off 8 pieces earlier this year its still 4x the size when I bought it.

Also recently obtained a very unique dragonet, haven't been able to ID it yet but its red with a little white speckling and some yellow highlights. My best guess so far is its Synchiropus moyeri. Not sure if I'll ever be able to get a female, so for now I'll try pairing it with my female red scooter. I just hope it makes it, its still very new and not adjusting to captive life well.

Got a few new types of macroalgaes I've found as hitchhikers at my LFS, one is Chondria! Been looking for that one for a long time. Its not doing so good so I'm not sure if it'll make it, I sure hope so, its gorgeous with a rainbow irridescence to it.

Some new inhabitants include a pair of fancy snowflake clownfish, finally found a pair with black spots in their white areas which I really like.

Also got a pair of young platinum clowns in the sump

Recent pics:

 

[GlassMunky]

This thread is just so awesome, i keep coming back to it.
I may have missed it somewhere, but what spectrum bulbs are you using? More pink/red hue for the macros or still just a regular white/blue mix?

 

[tektite]

I like to throw in at least one actinic or purple bulb, but keep mostly white and blue.

 

[tektite]

Some macro macro pics First day using my new macro lens so not the greatest, I need to take some better ones now that I have a little experience using it!

 

[LSUFireGal]

I am drooling!

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[GlassMunky]

what is that second pic?! its awesome looking!!!

 

[tektite]

The second pic is iridescent blue Codium lucasii

 

[Mayja]

Can you post an updated full tank shot??? Pretty please?