my 47 gallon bowfront reef tank

jdmorgan20fan · Post by **jdmorgan20fan** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:21 pm

This is my 47 gallon bowfront aquarium. I finally got some pictures and wanted to show it off. My camera just isn't that good to take pictures of my aquarium. Its pretty simple. No sump so everything is on the back. I have a prizm skimmer, a stealth heater, a penguin 400 filter, a maxi-jet powerhead, a 25 watt uv sterilizer and the aquarium is a odyssea 47 gallon bowfront aquarium with power compacts. I am planning on retrofitting t-5's in place of the power compacts. I added moonlights to the lights a couple of months ago. Right now i have a clownfish, bangaii cardinal and engineer goby. I want a new tang, a firefish goby, and a mandarin goby. I only have 2 hard corals and they are growing very slowly so i'm hoping the new lights will help. I just added the tonga branch rocks and am hoping they start growing coralline algae soon. I have a bright green mushroom that i am trying to frag off becuase i like the color of it. I am planning on getting different colored corals becuase all my corals are almost the same colors. I was wanting to do a sump but i would have to have a sump built because it is very small underneath it. I guess one project at a time.

kristo · Post by **kristo** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:52 pm

pretty!!!

but if you are going to put a tang in i would put a tomini tang and get the smallest one i could find. Most bristletooth tangs stay a little smaller than the acanthurus and the zebrasoma...ECT.

Fishfood · Post by **Fishfood** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:52 pm

A tang might not be the best idea. Its only a 47 gal tank to start with and it looks like there is a lot of rock in there. The open space for the tang to swim in just isn't there.

jdmorgan20fan · Post by **jdmorgan20fan** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:36 pm

I had a scopas tang in there for almost a year before the stupid mistake of mixing water and salt and putting it in there without oxygenating it (worked for 16 hours straight and came home and decided of sleeping I would work on my aquarium half asleep). He was a little out there. He would dart like my firefish goby and he had the exact personality as dora did on finding nemo. He was a little smaller than most scopas tangs i had seen but all the rock is on the back and the front has a good front area that is wide. I worried that it would be too small but it worked good for a year. When i had my 20 long, I got a super small hippo tang and had him in there. I was worried that it wouldn't work out but it was ok for him but not for long. Before he got too big, I traded him for some corals. I had him in there for a good 8 months. Wish i would have never got rid of him but i knew he would be too big for it soon. I hate to say it and i know it's going to make some people mad but everything everyone has told me to do never works for me. I just go with the flow and it works out.

Squirrelboy · Post by **Squirrelboy** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:03 pm

Everything people say wont work can work its just for how long jd size is something you have to be careful with especially with Tangs a scopas is a decent choice as i've found most to be pretty hardy and easy going, but remember just because someone gets shot in the head and survives doesnt mean the rule has changed its just an exception. Do your own research, take all advise in stride, and most of all dont shoot yourself in the head.