Image File Name	Description	Size	Number of Hits
180.jpg	This is my newly set up 180. This is just after I finally finished the canopy. The water has been in the tank and circulating for weeks, but it has taken some time to finish the canopy and varnish it. The lighting is 3 400 Watt MH lamps. In this picture, they are not quite up to full brightness yet. 4 160 watt VHO bulbs have not yet been installed.	42789 bytes	014
180left.jpg	This is the left 1/3 of the 180 gallon live rock setup.	48996 bytes	014
180nolight.jpg	This is the 180 gallon with the lights out. It is a little easier to see the canopy and stand with the lights off. The brightness of the MH lamps confuses the camera.	41746 bytes	013
180right.jpg	The right 1/3 of the 180 tank with the live rock set up. This picture is a little dim because I only have one of the 400W Metal Hallides running over the center of the tank.	46250 bytes	014
180sump.jpg	The right side of my sump setup. The lighting ballasts are on the left side. I haven't picture that yet because I am still working on the shelving. This picture shows the 40 gallon breeder aquarium used as a sump. The ETS skimmer is in the sump to save room under the stand and also in case it overflows. To the right of the sump is the pump which supplies water to the skimmer. Above this pump, there will be a small shelf which will hold my additives and test kits.	65911 bytes	011
Branching_Porites.jpg	Branching Porites. A hard coral.	41834 bytes	014
Clown_Fish.jpg	Clown Fish thinks that this Pulsing Xenia is an Anenome.	62471 bytes	022
Grape_Bubble_Coral.jpg	Grape Bubble Coral.	58945 bytes	031
Green_Torch_Coral.jpg	A Green Torch Coral.	51152 bytes	028
Purple_Tang.jpg	Purple Tang cruises between a sponge and a Bubble Tip Anemone.	57358 bytes	020
Turbinaria_Cup_Coral.jpg	A Turbinaria Cup Coral.	66032 bytes	017
acropora.jpg		31106 bytes	011
algae.jpg	I'm not sure whether this is the good kind of algae or not. It is a reddish brown, and covers just about everything. The snails love it.	62531 bytes	071
anemone.jpg	This anemone came as a surprise gift along with my live rock package from Tampa Bay Saltwater. I've had one person say that it looks like a Condylactus Anemone. I placed this anemone on top of a rock, but he decided to crawl under the rock and in this picture, you can see that he is sticking his tentacles out from under the rock.	34292 bytes	014
anemone2.jpg	This is another anemone that came with my live rock from Tampa Bay Saltwater. I am not at all sure what kind of anemone this one is. I do know that it is quite capable of locomotion. It crossed about 4 feet of tank in a few hours trying to find a place it liked. For a side view, see anemone3.jpg.	36520 bytes	017
anemone3.jpg	This is a side view of one of the anemones that came with my live rock order from Tampa Bay Saltwater. This one crawled about 4 feet across my aquarium to find a suitable spot.	43770 bytes	024
basement.jpg	On the other side of the stairs from my sump, I have a Reverse Osmosis unit by Kent Marine. This drips water into the 45 gallon tub on the table. The unit is turned on when the sump level gets low via a float switch and a solenoid. I can use the water in the 45 gallon tub as changing water for my freshwater tank, or I can drain it into the other 45 gallon tub below. In this tub, I mix the saltwater. I use Instant Ocean salt. The tub has a pump in it to continuously circulate water.	45201 bytes	017
beaded_anemone.jpg	This beaded anemone has just caught something to eat. When it catches something, it moves it's tentacles in toward it's mouth. If it catches something big, it will move all of it's tentacels in, as it has done here.	57820 bytes	014
blurrymushroom.jpg	Here is a nice blurry picture of a mushroom encrusted rock.	39053 bytes	017
bristle.jpg	Close up of a dark red bristel worm in his hidey hole. This worm is about an inch and a half long, but the exposed part in this picture is only about an inch. His cave turns and goes away from the glass, and part of his body is hidden there. One of many hitchhikers that came in on the rock or in the sand.	71834 bytes	015
bristle2.jpg	Here is a bristle worm out and about. This one tends to get himself all balled up all the time instead of staying flat out like the others in the tank. I think perhaps this is a different species, or perhaps not a bristleworm at all. You can see some shells in the background. Some have snails in them, and some are empty, waiting for hermits to come and claim them. These all came in with the rock and sand.	69314 bytes	013
bubble_tip_anemone.jpg		41431 bytes	013
bubble_tip_anemone2.jpg		47275 bytes	014
calcium_reactor.jpg	This is my calcium reactor by Knop. The small pump circulates water inside the tube. CO2 is fed in as well. The PH of the water is lowered to about 6.4, causing the calcium carbonate in the tube to dissolve into the water. Corals and some algaes require calcium for growth. You can also see my X-10 and lighting controller just to the right. The large pipe is the return which feeds water into the display tank upstairs.	41850 bytes	014
centerrock.jpg	This is one of the rocks in the center of the tank. You can barely make out some of the algae on the rock due to lots of sediment floating around the tank. I'll have to get some clearer pictures after that settles out. There are some mushrooms on this rock as well.	42479 bytes	014
centerrock2.jpg	A picture of another of the center rocks. This one is positively swarming with small filter feeders. They stick their little 1/4 inch fans out, then pull them in, sweeping food into their mouths. They do this continuously, about once a second.	51465 bytes	014
chili_coral.jpg	The chili coral is the red stuff in the foreground. Behind it is some kind of sponge.	29297 bytes	019
christmas_tree_coral.jpg	This is a soft coral which spends most of the day wrapped in a tiny ball. When night comes, it begins to poke it's branches up out of the ball until it is about 6 inches tall with many branches. I didn't have much success in getting this coral to attach to the rocks and so it eventually fell onto the substrate and crawled under a rock. I presume it must have died under there.	45166 bytes	020
christmas_tree_coral2.jpg		44965 bytes	015
christmas_tree_coral3.jpg	My Christmas tree coral fully extended under the 10000K flourescents.	39979 bytes	020
clam.jpg	A little purple clam (about 1/2") is behind the bristleworm tower in the foreground. This clam has since been eaten by something.	48881 bytes	015
cleaner_shrimp.jpg	One of my two cleaner shrimp. They only like to come out at night, so this is a rare camera shot.	65110 bytes	021
clown-in-anemone.jpg	This is my Percula Clown in a Long Tentacled Anemone. The clown took to the anemone after the anemone had been in the tank for only two days. The clown brings bits of food to the anemone at feeding time. It is an amazing relationship. I hope the other Percula will also take to the anemone. Thus far, it hasn't shown much interest. If the two clowns decided to pair up, they will live together in the anemone.	76108 bytes	020
clown.jpg	Close up of my Percula Clown.	52250 bytes	014
clown2.jpg	Closeup of my larger Percula Clown before he succumbed to clownfish disease. His dorsal fin and lower fins are tightly clamped to his body, and there are patches of white hanging off it that makes it look like he is shedding his skin.	35765 bytes	012
clowns.jpg	My two percula clowns. The larger one died after six days. The symptoms appeared to be clownfish disease.	45056 bytes	015
clowns2.jpg	Closeup of my two Percula Clowns.	42089 bytes	014
colt_coral.jpg	This colt coral died after about a week in my tank. I think it contacted my elegance coral and was poisoned. Colt coral is supposedly one of the easiest corals to keep, but it did not last long in my tank.	59868 bytes	014
coral.jpg	This is a coral that I haven't been able to identify. If anyone knows, please tell me.	63734 bytes	016
crab.jpg	See it? He's just to the right of the middle, perched up on a small pebble. This little guy is only about 1/8 of an inch long. Also, in this picture, is a small shrimp, or maybe two. They are about 1/16 of an inch long, and are right up next to the glass, so are out of focus. Not only that, but they are transparent except for the eyes, so you can't see them hardly at all unless they are moving, and certainly can't see them in this photo. These guys all came with the live rock and sand.	52134 bytes	011
crab2.jpg	A little 1/4" crab has built this cave in the sand. You can see him here, camoflauged in the sand.	64478 bytes	014
crab3.jpg	This is another crab that came with the live rock. This one has built himself a little burrow. He is camoflauged well. Look at the extreme left center of the picture.	80971 bytes	014
cucumber.jpg	Here is a serpent star hanging out in the corner with a tiger tail cucumber. The cucumber seems to enjoy crawling on the glass eating algea. They also like to climb the rocks.	44753 bytes	012
cucumber2.jpg	This is another of my tiger tail cucumbers. This one has climbed up a rock and is swaying around at the top, presumably looking for some tasty algea to eat.	40961 bytes	013
cupcoral.jpg	I think this is the beginnings of a cup coral. It came with my live rock.	40307 bytes	011
damsel.jpg	My first fish. Actually, there are two, but they move so fast it is difficult to catch them with the camera. At first, they tended to stick close to each other, and their movements were precisely synchronizes. If one moved up and forward, the other would move down and backward, exactly at the same time. How do they do it? Now they have become acclimated to the tank and are happy to roam around independently.	42070 bytes	015
eggs.jpg	This picture is rotated 90 degrees in order to get the whole string of eggs into the picture. This string of eggs is perhaps 2" high. I'm not sure what laid them, but I'm guessing the snails are the culprits.	51067 bytes	012
elegance_coral.jpg		41989 bytes	013
featherduster.jpg	This leftmost peice of rock came in with some featherduster worms on it. Unfortunately, it is difficult to see them in this shot because they are pretty small and their fans are the same color as the rock. They are in the middle at the top of the rock. Sorry if you can't find them. This shot does have a closeup of all the nooks and crannies in the rock.	55790 bytes	012
featherduster1.jpg	I think these little fan shaped worms are called feather dusters or fan worms or something. If someone knows for sure, I'll put the proper name in here. There are also a number of other little organisms with little tentacles and such.	58379 bytes	012
finger_coral.jpg	This leathery coral is shown with all of it's polyps extended. The little bumps are the polyps. When the polyps are not extended, the coral is smooth skinned.	33244 bytes	023
golden_crown_toadstool.jpg	This is my golden crown toadstool coral with polyps extended.	48619 bytes	026
hermit.jpg	This is one of the several hermit crabs in the tank. This one is about 3/8 inch. This guy rode in with the rock and sand.	53484 bytes	015
hermits.jpg	These are some of the approximately 300 tiny blue leg hermits that came as part of my live rock package. These guys love the algae on the fron of my tank. In fact, they climb up the algae and eat it as they go up. After only a few hours, they had eaten the algea at the front base of the tank so thoroughly that they could not reach up to it anymore. Now they resirt to either climbing on each other to get to the algae, or they sift through the sand looking for morsels. There's plenty of algae in the sand as well, so they should be kept well fed.	66994 bytes	015
hood.jpg	This is a picture of the hood. You can see the vents I put over two icecap fans on each side. The front part of the hood opens for access to feeding and cleaning the glass. The top part of the hood also opens up and pulls all the lights along with it. With the top part open, you can get in and rearrange the tank, which I don't hope to do often. The hood is made out of solid oak, with 2X2 pine for vertical support in the four corners.	43870 bytes	013
jawfish.jpg	This is one of my three yellow headed jawfish. I had four, but one never acclimated to the aquarium life and eventually died. These guys are fun to watch. They dig holes by filling their mouths with sand and rubble and then spitting it out. They spend most of the day either digging or sitting halfway in their holes like this one, eating the occassional bit of passing food.	69675 bytes	014
jawfish2.jpg	This side view own the length of my tank gives a view of all three jawfish waiting for snacks to pass by.	61762 bytes	013
lawnmower_blenny.jpg	This lawnmower blenny was hard to photograph because he blends into the background and his image is always fuzzy. He loves to lay on a rock and munch on the algae growing on it.	49199 bytes	010
left-20020429.jpg	Left side of 180. Here we see a bubbletip anemone with one Percule Clown visible. Another is in there hidden away somewhere. Near the left bottom is a foxface rabbitfish. The powder blue surgeon Tang is in the middle near the bottom and the purple Tang is just to the left. Near the right bottom you can see my yellow headed jawfish. Some tufts of green algae are in the picture and you can see that the rocks are encrusted with coraline algae.	83580 bytes	014
leftcenter-20020429.jpg	The foxface rabbitfish, purple Tang and powder blue surgeon Tang have gotten into the picture again. Here you see lots of cultured pulsing Xenia in the center. Blue mushrooms are above the Xenia. Red mushrooms below and to the right. A beaded Anemone is just below the Xenia. A Golden Crown Toadstool is in the upper left. There are a few other corals in this shot that I have forgotten the names of.	80436 bytes	013
mushroom_red.jpg	Although this is often called mushroom coral, it is really a type of anemone. I also have some blue mushrooms in my tank.	34966 bytes	032
night1.jpg	I can't remember what i was trying to capture in this photo. There's a snail on the left side. I have a feeling I was trying to show something in the foreground, but it's too dark to see.	38978 bytes	011
nudibranch.jpg	A nudibranch or sea slug. I've heard that some can eat corals, but this one seems to munch on algae.	32010 bytes	013
open_brain.jpg		38586 bytes	018
open_brain_2.jpg	Another shot of my open brain coral. One of my jawfish insisted on being in the picture.	37135 bytes	037
plant3.jpg	This is a large fern-like plant. Some folks on the newsgroups helped me identify it as Caulerpa sertularioides, commonly called feather sand moss. I harvest it and put it in the sump, where I have crabs that eat it. My powder blue tang managed to get into this shot, and you can also see some acropora on the right. The tang and the lawnmower blenny also like to eat this stuff.	56864 bytes	015
plants.jpg	This is another shot of my leftmost rock. you can see several green plants (I think) sticking up out of the live rock. When I placed the rock, nothing was sticking up at all, but these guys really sprung into life within the first 24 hours.	27151 bytes	012
plants2.jpg	This is a shot of another rock on the left side of the tank. This one is covered with algae and other plants. The most drmatic is a six inch tall plant which was not even vertical when I put the rock in the tank. Now it has sprung up in 24 hours to vertical.	46640 bytes	011
plants4.jpg	This plant looks something like the money plant advertised on FFexpress.com. But the leaves are individual round discs attached to stalks rather than several small discs attached together. I don't know the name of the plant. My condylactus anemone has moved himself up in the rocks because the plants were blocking off his light.	49981 bytes	012
plants5.jpg	This plant looks a little like the maidens hair on FFexpress.com, although I am not sure exactly what it is.	48048 bytes	012
powder_blue_tang.jpg		30830 bytes	018
powder_blue_tang2.jpg	My powder blue tang at night swimming with the elegance coral visible on the left and the Christmas Tree coral closed up on the right.	47135 bytes	036
pulsing_xenia.jpg	This xenia is mostly closed up at the moment. When it is more open, the little pom poms pulse and catch food drifting in the water.	43351 bytes	020
pulsing_xenia_2.jpg		48374 bytes	014
right-20020429.jpg	In this picture the long tentacle anemone dominates the view. A Leather coral is in the upper right. A Turbinia Cup Coral can be seen just left of center, and red mushrooms dot the sand bed. The Foxface Rabbitfish and the Powder Blue Surgeon Tang have gotten into this picture, as well as the purple firefish goby.	64990 bytes	013
rightcenter-20020429.jpg	Here you can see the cultered pulsing Xenia at the left, and there is a better view of the blue mushrooms above the Xenia, and the red mushrooms on the sand bed near the right corner. There are two corals visible in the upper left and upper center that I have forgetten the names of.	77564 bytes	012
rightrock.jpg	This is a picture of some of my righthand side rocks. These are also covered with algae, as can be seen from the picture. More difficult to see is all the filter feeders on the rock. Once the water clears up, I can take some more closeups.	55356 bytes	013
serpentstar.jpg	This reddish purple serpent starfish is about 4" from tip of one arm to tip of the other. There are four of these in the tank. So far they seem to enjoy hanging out on the sand or under the rocks.	62119 bytes	013
shrimp.jpg	This is a really tiny shrimp that I found flitting around in the tank. He's only about 1/16" of an inch long.	22353 bytes	012
sink.jpg	I installed this utility sink to clean up things in the basement and also for water changes. The main return pipe has a valve on it which I can open to allow water to pump right into this sink anddown the drain. In the background you can see the calibration fluids for the PH and ORP probes.	39439 bytes	018
skimmer.jpg	Here you can see my skimmer with a waste collector next to it. When the waste collector gets full, the airflow is cut off and the skimmer ceases to operate. This prevents the skimmer from overflowing. You can also see some of the outlets which I wired in. They are all GFP protected. I have the main pump and the skimmer pump on seperate switched outlets so I can quickly turn them off. The Calcium Reactor is on the same switch as the main pump because it is fed by the main pump. I can turn off the main pump, the Calcium Reactor pump and the CO2 all on this one switch.	38399 bytes	014
slippercoral.jpg		80840 bytes	012
snail.jpg	A snail climbing the glass in the foreground. A snail is also stirring the sand between the glass and the rock. On the bottom left of the rock, you can seea colony of some sort of plant or animal. I'm not sure what it is. Any ideas?	40850 bytes	014
snail2.jpg	Another snail crawling up the glass.	37855 bytes	014
sponge.jpg	I thought this was some kind of coral at first, but someone said it looks like some sort of sponge. If anyone knows exactly what it is, I'd like to know.	39381 bytes	014
star.jpg	A nighttime pic of a starfish. It only has two apendages. I suppose the others were broken off or something. This star is maybe 1/2" across.	24492 bytes	012
star2.jpg	This starfish is about 1.5 inches across. It came with the live rock. I believe it is known as a brittle start, just guessing by the hairs on it's arms.	65631 bytes	013
sump.jpg	This is a picture of my sump after having moved it downstairs. The tank is 70 gallons, and has a refugium portioned off in the middle. You can see a piece of live rock in the left corner of the refugium. This refugium is home to about 4 mantis shrimp and several hairy crabs. On the right, you can see the inflow pipe coming in from upstairs where the display tank is. On the right is the refrigerator through which water is pumped to keep it cool. Next to the refrigerator is the skimmer pump. The skimmer is above the right side of the pump. On the left side of the tank is the return pump which also feeds the calcium reactor above it. The lighting here is two 60 watt flourescents. These will probably have to be upgraded if any plant life is to be maintained in the sump. The florescents are on when the main tank lights are off.	42640 bytes	023
sump_left.jpg	On this left side view of the sump, you can see two 300 watt heaters plus a bit of the refugium with live rock. The heaters are turned on by an X-10 controller when the temperature gets lower than 77.6. Although it is difficult to see, the temperature, PH, ORP and grounding probes are all in this left partition.	48438 bytes	015
tiger-goby.jpg	This is a tiger goby that came with my live rock from Tampa Bay Saltwater. He disappeared sometime around the beginning of October, 2000, probably the victim of a mantis shrimp attack.	53286 bytes	026
tuxedo_urchin.jpg	This is a blue striped tuxedo urchin. It eats algea. It moves along slowly, and seems to enjoy hanging around on the glass. Supposedly, it can clean an entire rock of algae, but so far, just the front glass has kept it busy enough.	34774 bytes	015
tuxedo_urchin2.jpg	My blu striped tuxedo urchin munching down on the algae on the front glass.	59637 bytes	023
unidentified.jpg	This strange thing is growing in my overflows. I have several on each side. It is definitely growing, as this example I first noticed when it was just an inverted Y. Now it has branched out and is about an inch across.	38028 bytes	015
urchin.jpg	This creature came with my live rock package from Tampa Bay Saltwater as a bonus item. I thought it was some kind of coral at first, but in the morning, I found it had wandered off the rocks down to the sand and was slowly moving back and forth on the sand. Now I think it might be some kind of urchin. However, someone else said it was probably a branching green sponge or some kind of macroalgae.	37375 bytes	019
waving_hand_anthelia.jpg	This rock is completely covered with waving hand anthelia. After a few weeks, the number of these has dwindled from the rock. I think perhaps my hermit crabs are eating them. The hand wave back and forth in the current and grab small particles of plant and animal life.	54681 bytes	025
worm.jpg	This transparent worm looks a lot like a peice of silicone, but it is actually alive. It dug this hole which goes below the 1 1/2" of live sand and down into the limestone screening subbase. This worm is about 1 1/2" long.	58611 bytes	015
worm_and_shrimp.jpg	This is a picture of a greenish worm which I think is a Bristleworm, but I'm not sure. Right under this worm is a tiny bug or shrimp. Also standing up a little lower is another bug or shrimp. The worm is about 1/4" long, so these are tiny creatures indeed. You can see several tiny creatures in this shot, all of which came in with the rock and sand.	45918 bytes	023
worm_in_algae.jpg	This worm came with the live rock. He is about 1.5 inches long and is cruising around the algea growing on the front glass. Hopefully, he is eating the algae, as it is getting pretty thick.	65809 bytes	028