labnjab's 75 Gallon Reef Build

**labnjab** · 04-29-2010, 01:33 AM

I just ordered 20 lbs of eco rock from brs for only $55 shipped. That will bring our total rock to over 100#s. Hopefully it will be here before we sell the leather so i can start aquascaping as soon as its gone. I've also got a few lfs looking for berghai nudibranch so we can take care of the aptasia. I just killed 20 this afternoon.

**tanks4thememories** · 04-29-2010, 01:42 AM

Originally Posted by labnjab

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Good Job!! The water is so clear looks like fish are suspended in mid air..lol
Landscape looks good too

**labnjab** · 04-29-2010, 01:48 PM

Ty tanks :)

**labnjab** · 05-02-2010, 03:36 PM

Looks like our rock will be here wednesdsy and the leather will be gone tuesday. I cant wait. This will alow us to get all the frags off the sand and make room for more clams :)

**labnjab** · 05-04-2010, 09:44 PM

We just sold the leather. It was to a friend with a 6 foot tank so i know its in great hands. It took up more space then i thought. Over 1/4 of the tank. It was a good move to sell the it. The eco-rock should be here tomorrow afternoon. Stay tuned for pics by the end of the week. I cant wait :)

**labnjab** · 05-05-2010, 04:47 PM

Here's a fts after the leather was gone. It took up a lot of space.

Here's the side where we are going to add the 20 lbs of eco-rocks. I also plan on replacing the glass heater with a visa therm which will be hidden in the overflow box. I'd like to pile the rocks as high as possible, but not too high. The top of the stack will be a little sps mountain while the face will turn into a zoa garden and will all have a few encrusting lps and a few acans added to it as well. So far we have 3 zoa colonies to add to the garden, purple death, mowhawk, and electric pink, and we will will also be adding nuclear green and cats eye to it some time this week. I'd like to attach a montipora cap to the back corner of the overflow too.

I should be getting the rock in this afternnon and do all the work tonight or tomorrow so look for pictures Friday afternoon at the latest

**Miltonic** · 05-06-2010, 03:14 AM

looking god lab and wow that leather sure took up a lot of room!

**labnjab** · 05-06-2010, 04:25 AM

Thank you Milt. It took up a ton of space. We had to keep 1/3 of our sps on the sand or a frag rack. Now we can start firmly attaching them to the new rock so they can really start to grow. I give it another 3-4 months and we'll have to start a frag tank to keep up with the sps growth

, lol

Once we sell all the frags in the sand we hope to be adding a maxima and croeca clam.

Here's the current fts with the new rock

**labnjab** · 05-12-2010, 11:25 AM

Just got word that our Randalls goby will be in this afternoon

After we add the goby we have 1 last fish on the list, an ORA Manderin once they release them this summer.

Everything is doing awesome and we even got the calcium reactor issues resolved. I'm really liking the look of the tank with the new rock. It filled an empty void, lol. One of the local vendor is doing a group buy on the berghai nudibranches. Once he gets an order for 20 then he can get them for $15 each, but if he doesn't get them soon I'm probably going to order them online because the aptasiapopulation is growing again