Subscriber's Tank Showcase
October 2000

Comments from Arthur...

I want to submit these photos of my tank which was originally set up August of 1999. I can't remember how many times I've re-arranged the tank since then. Probably, many of you will be surprised on how many fishes I have in this tank, and specially with the lighting I have. But so far all of my corals and fishes are hanging in there. Here are the detailed specs of my tank:

Tank: 40 Gallon Tru-View Acrylic tank with built-in wet/dry
Live Rock: combination Fiji & Tonga (about 20 to 30 lbs)
Water Change: 20 - 30 % every month - filtered & RO seawater from Steinhart Aquarium (yes, Calif. Academy of Sciences Aquarium in Golder Gate Park, San Francisco - excellent water and very, very very cheap!!!)
Water Circulation: 2 - 201 AquaClear and 1 - Rio400 powerheads
Water Return: 1- 402 AquaClear (at the back - wet/dry filter)
Skimmer: 1-402 AquaClear (at the back- wet/dry filter)
Lighting: 1- 24 watt 20,000K Coralife Fluorescent bulb; 1-24 watt 7100K Coralife Actinic bulb; 1-27 watt 6700K Custom Sea Life Power Compact; 1-9 watt 7100K Custom Sea Life Power Compact

Inhabitants:

• 1 purple tang
• 1 yellow tang
• 1 flame angel
• 1 pygmy angel
• 1 maroon clown
• 1 african clown
• 1 sri lankan sebae clown
• 2 rare orange skunk clowns
• 1 cleaner shrimp
• 2 blood red shrimp
• 2 yellow tail damsel
• 1 blue-green chromis
• 1 domino damsel
• 1 four striped damsel
• 1 chocolate chip starfish
• 2 bubble anemone (newly added)
• 2 yellow sebae anemone

Corals:

• 1 lettuce or cabbage coral
• 1 cat's eye coral
• 1 brown, 1 green & 1 luminous green star polyps
• 3 orange with white polyps
• 1 goniopora coral
• 1 green & 1 red candy coral
• 2 purple & 1 gold maxima clams
• 1 red & 1 green open brain coral
• 1 green plate coral
• 1 bright yellow carnation soft coral
• 1 colt coral
• 1 bubble coral
• 1 green button polyps
• 4 green & 4 red Discosoma mushrooms
• assorted colors plain and striped mushrooms
• and a purple montipora (which I think is dead because of my lighting)

And there is one more coral which I forgot the name if its a scroll coral or a digitata (whatever). It's the coral (like a plate) to the right of my cat's eye coral (see the picture directly below). If anybody knows its name, I'll appreciate it if you could tell me, okay. Send an email to Arthur at ajielm@aol.com. Thanks.