[fishguy_8]

Hi, just thought i'd tell you all about the new tank i'm going to be putting up. I had just set up a 20g in my room and asked about increaing the lighting to do some sps and one of the people that replied to me (Paul) offered me his pendant case for a MH....then he tells me he's trying to unload a bowed acrylic tank so long story short i'm going home this weekend to pick it up. Its around 60-65g Paul estimates.......we dont have the dimensions of it quite yet its in storage....there are some scratches on it though so if anyone knows a way to get that taken care of let me know. So what im going to do is set up the acrylic tank in my room and once i get the money to buy a ballast and bulb ......im going to take the sand and everything from the 20g and put it in the 60g......the tank comes w/ a stand as well so ive got that taken care of. My basic plan of attack right now is to do a bigger fish reef tank....as far as fish are concerned im leaning towards a 1in. volitan lion, a young hippo tang, and possibly a pair of the larger anthias' like the squarespot anthias.....this is all a ways down the road though but thats what i'm leaning towards as of now, if you all think thoses are a bad combination of fish let me know and we can start thinking of other options. Coral selection is going to be a combo of sps/lps and i may try my hand at a clam as well. my 45g is pretty much all softies so i want to try and get a little more diverse. Everythings going to be from frags though, poor college students cant afford big showpieces.....im thinking of a 3-4in sand bad w/ the 20lbs of lr from the 20g and then probably another 20lbs depending on how it looks. I'm going to try to set up several different caves because i know lions like to hover in caves when they are resting and the anthias' are spooky fish at first and are prone to dwelling in caves until they feel more comfortable. I've got a pretty good sized clean up crew right now in the 20g....i'm going to get rid of the green brittle though i dont trust him w/ the slow moving baby lion....seems like a bad combination. i have a orange linkia.....in fact in time i may have 2 orange linkia's...when we got him he had a jacked up leg and about a week ago the leg fell off and has been running around like the hand on the adams family. creepy as can be but cool none the less. I have an array of snails (nass, turbo, astrea mex turbo, queen conch) and then i've also got the ugliest cucumber ever placed in the ocean and an assortment of small hermits. Whatever the snails dont clean off the glass i'll take care of that with the magnet.....love that thing. Once again if anyone knows of a way to get those scratches out let me know.
Thanks
Jon
ps. I may have a 140g on the way too....so those fish may be headed for that tank once they are grown out.