Top 11 - 20 Corals & Inverts 2009

Rated #11: Corals Inverts - Tridacna Crocea - Crocea Clam, Second Grade Stocking In 34 Gallons Tank

Rated #11: Corals Inverts - Tridacna Crocea - Crocea Clam, Second Grade Stocking In 34 Gallons Tank - Jawfish in 34gallon
Username: Stefan
Country: United States
Rank: #11 out of 137 Corals & Inverts submitted 2009
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Submitted By: Stefan on
Ratings: 6.73
Number of votes: 11
Quote: I like reef
Fish Kept: Clown,fire fish, fire angel, jaw fish, dwarf lion, manderin goby, 3 cleaner shrimp, blue starfish.
Corals/Plants: Frog spawn, rose bubble tip anenome, galaxia,clam, all different color richordeas, blue mushrooms, pipe coral, green star polyp, bubble coral, brain, elegance coral, blue candy cane, Eagle eye zoos, orange zoos, Purple zoos,yellow open brain, SPS, sun polyp.
Tank Size: 34 gallons
Description: Jawfish in 34gallon

Rated #12: Corals Inverts - Clavularia Sp. - Clove Polyp Stocking In 75 Gallons Tank

Rated #12: Corals Inverts - Clavularia Sp. - Clove Polyp Stocking In 75 Gallons Tank - My Clarkii clowns
Username: Peter Merten
Country: Australia
Rank: #12 out of 137 Corals & Inverts submitted 2009
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Submitted By: Peter Merten on
Ratings: 6.73
Number of votes: 11
Quote: none
About Yourself: I'm a second yr film student studying film and screen production. I've had a Saltwater tank for about 4 years or so just upgraded to this 4ft tank which i use to have a couple of oscars in. Any Comments or advice would be great as i'm still a learner. Once I've finished this tank i'll be upgrading to something more like a 120gal tank in a few years
Fish Kept: 2 Clarkii Clowns, 3 Chromis, 1 Tomato Clown, Yellow Tail Damsel, 1 Snowflake Eel. Looking at getting a couple of Tangs once i have the money and who knows what else
Corals/Plants: Large Hammer Coral, Frogspawn, Leather Toadstool, 1 Soft Coral, Finger Coral, Jardina coral (elegance?) Bubble Coral, Green and brown Goniopora and many more on the way once i can afford them
Tank Size: 75 gallons
Advice: Read read and read, do your research and plan everything. Don't trust exactly what your fish shop says they're usually wrong. Find one that you can trust and has good prices!
Description: My Clarkii clowns

Rated #13: Corals Inverts - Zoanthus Sp. - Button Polyp, Pink Stocking In 33 Gallons Tank

Rated #13: Corals Inverts - Zoanthus Sp. - Button Polyp, Pink Stocking In 33 Gallons Tank - Zooanthids
Username: Brad
Country: United States
Rank: #13 out of 137 Corals & Inverts submitted 2009
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Submitted By: Brad on
Ratings: 6.73
Number of votes: 11
Quote: Im getting a bigger one
Fish Kept: Adult Clarki Clown & Midas Blenny
Corals/Plants: Zenia, finger leathers, shrooms, pallys, zoos, anemonies
Tank Size: 33 gallons
Advice: Spend the extra $$. Its worth it!
Description: Zooanthids

Rated #14: Corals Inverts - Tridacna Maxima - Blue Maxima Clam Stocking In 90 Gallons Tank

Rated #14: Corals Inverts - Tridacna Maxima - Blue Maxima Clam Stocking In 90 Gallons Tank - My Blue Maxima!!!
Username: tatted4ever
Country: United States
Rank: #14 out of 137 Corals & Inverts submitted 2009
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Submitted By: tatted4ever on
Ratings: 6.64
Number of votes: 11
Quote: I need more coral!!!
About Yourself: I am fairly new to the hobby of reefkeeping about 6 months into it. Have made a fair amount of mistakes to learn from. But i have had plenty experience with freshwater more specifically cichlids.
Fish Kept: Currently no fish due to a recent ich outbreak. But i do have a maxima clam, cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp, countless turbo snails, and 10 red legged hermit crabs.
Corals/Plants: I mainly am keeping sps, but i have xenia pom poms and a frogspawn. Of course I have some zoas at the moment. I plan on having a wide variety of zoas in the future.
Tank Size: 90 gallons
Advice: Everybody says have patience, but im saying have deep pockets.
Description: My Blue Maxima!!!

Rated #15: Corals Inverts - Entacmaea Quadricolor - Bulb Anemone Stocking In 60 Gallons Tank

Rated #15: Corals Inverts - Entacmaea Quadricolor - Bulb Anemone Stocking In 60 Gallons Tank - Tomato Clown in Speckled GBTA
Username: Tim Ellis
Country: United States
Rank: #15 out of 137 Corals & Inverts submitted 2009
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Submitted By: Tim Ellis on
Ratings: 6.55
Number of votes: 11
Quote: Pain heals, chicks dig scars, and glory lives forever.
About Yourself: Started in freshwater 2 1/2 years ago and started in reef tanks 9 months ago.
Fish Kept: 2 True Percula Clown 1 Purple Fire Fish 1 Pychadelic Mandrin Goby 1 Kole Tang 1 Copperband Butterfly Fish 1 Red Orange Sea Star 1 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp 3 Peppermint Shrimp 2 Margarita Snails 4 Turbo Snails 7 Hermit Crabs
Corals/Plants: 1 Speckled Green Bubble Tip Anenome 1 Three Headed Green Tip Frogspawn 1 Rainbow Open Brain Coral 1 Plate Coral 1 Dendrphyllia 1 Neon Green Candy Cane Coral 1 Neon Green Clove Polyp Colony 1 Inside Out Zoanthid Colony 1 Sean's Pinky Zoanthid Colony 1 Eagle EyeZoanthid Colony 1 Blue Magician Zoanthid Colony 1 Green Star Polyp Colony 1 Red Monti Cap Assorted Mushrooms
Tank Size: 60 gallons
Advice: Research twice, buy once!
Description: Tomato Clown in Speckled GBTA

Rated #16: Corals Inverts - Sarcophyton Sp. - Toadstool Mushroom Leather Coral Stocking In 75 Gallons Tank

Rated #16: Corals Inverts - Sarcophyton Sp. - Toadstool Mushroom Leather Coral Stocking In 75 Gallons Tank - side shot ... 75 gal with a monster toad stool, acons, red plate green star polyps, and a long spiny urchin...who always manages to stab me when im cleaning the inside... ouch... but hes cool to look at, so he stays....
Username: Jamy
Country: United States
Rank: #16 out of 137 Corals & Inverts submitted 2009
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Submitted By: Jamy on
Ratings: 6.45
Number of votes: 11
About Yourself: I went to Maui scuba diving in the reef... I was hooked! I always had tanks as a kid so it was only natural to end up with a giant reef of my own...I love it! I have had it going for four years now, so I say its not going anyware!! Its a lot of upkeep, but so am I, so no problems for me here!! lol... I enjoy it more than watching tv!! theres always drama happening in that little world they live in too...its like the discovery channel live.
Fish Kept: 3 blue chromis 1 sailfin tang 1blue tang 1 niger trigger, sand sifting guy, and a purple yellow"jerk"!
Corals/Plants: Toad stool star polyps open brain red plate brown purple rim plate clams acros millie trumpet coral green ricordias colt coral blue and brown stag im sure more, I see things growing in it all the time I never purchased...creeping out of the live rock..mystery polyps and sponges and the colt coral.. its all over and I never bought it.. I sure have to trim it all the time. but its pretty so whatever...
Tank Size: 75 gallons
Advice: If it looks good...DONT touch it. do regular water changes! always use ro/di
Description: side shot ... 75 gal with a monster toad stool, acons, red plate green star polyps, and a long spiny urchin...who always manages to stab me when im cleaning the inside... ouch... but hes cool to look at, so he stays....

Rated #17: Corals Inverts - Lima Scabra - Flame Scallop Stocking In 30 Gallons Tank

Rated #17: Corals Inverts - Lima Scabra - Flame Scallop Stocking In 30 Gallons Tank - Flamming Scalop
Username: Anthony
Country: United States
Rank: #17 out of 137 Corals & Inverts submitted 2009
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Submitted By: Anthony on
Ratings: 6.36
Number of votes: 11
Fish Kept: 3 Clownfish, Yellow Tang, Purple Dottyback, Pygmy Angelfish, Lawnmower Blenny, Famming Scallop
Corals/Plants: Gonipora, Frogspawn, Hammer, Candy Cane, Green Star Polyp, Button Polyps, Pulsating Xenia
Tank Size: 30 gallons
Advice: Sit Back and enjoy your tank. If you set it right it can be self suffient.
Description: Flamming Scalop

Rated #18: Corals Inverts - Condylactis Gigantea - Condy Anemone Stocking In 90 Gallons Tank

Rated #18: Corals Inverts - Condylactis Gigantea - Condy Anemone Stocking In 90 Gallons Tank - awesome clown in anemone
Username: josh
Country: United States
Rank: #18 out of 137 Corals & Inverts submitted 2009
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Submitted By: josh on
Ratings: 6.27
Number of votes: 11
Fish Kept: allardi clown, kohl tang, domino damsel, soon to be blue tang
Corals/Plants: mushrooms, polyps, xenia, anemones
Tank Size: 90 gallons
Advice: research
Description: awesome clown in anemone

Rated #19: Corals Inverts - Entacmaea Quadricolor - Bulb Anemone Stocking In 175 Gallons Tank

Rated #19: Corals Inverts - Entacmaea Quadricolor - Bulb Anemone Stocking In 175 Gallons Tank - Green bubble macro shot
Username: Jimbo
Country: Spain
Rank: #19 out of 137 Corals & Inverts submitted 2009
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Submitted By: Jimbo on
Ratings: 6.27
Number of votes: 11
Quote: I'm the lizard king, I can do anything.
Fish Kept: Acanthurus Leuco, A. Sohal, A. Lineatus, A. Olivaceus, Hepatus, Flavescens, Chelmon, Naso Lituratus, Odonus Niger, Ostracion Cubicus, Sinchy. Splendidus, Sinchy. Ocellatus, Clarkii, Halichoeres Marginatus, H. Chrysus, Ambligobius Rainfordi, Gramma Loreto, Chromis viridis.....
Corals/Plants: Hystrix, Calendrum, milka, montipora digitata, montipora confusa, wellsophyllia, trachyphyllia, goniopora, favia, favites, euphyllia ancora, parancora, paradivisa, turbinaria, plerogyra sinuosa green, acan. lord purple & green, pump. xenia, zoos, e.quadricolor red, trinke. flabelliforme, caulastrea, acan. echinata, tridacna maxima, fungia....., 20-30 acroporas, (incl. loripes, hoeksemai, millepora, humilis, gomezi,.....)
Tank Size: 175 gallons
Advice: I only know that I don't know anything.
Description: Green bubble macro shot

Rated #20: Corals Inverts - Haliotis Sp. - Abalone Stocking In 120 Gallons Tank

Rated #20: Corals Inverts - Haliotis Sp. - Abalone Stocking In 120 Gallons Tank - He sure is intriguingly ugly, yet majestic.
Username: Tien23
Country: United States
Rank: #20 out of 137 Corals & Inverts submitted 2009
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Submitted By: Tien23 on
Ratings: 6.19
Number of votes: 21
Quote: "America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
About Yourself: Just had the itch one day and bought a few Bettas and kept going from there. I have an interest in saltwater tanks, however my pocket book does not currently share the same interest. I just aquired a 120 gallon tank and am in the process of setting it up for saltwater
Fish Kept: Mono Sebae, Russell's Lion, Stonefish, Powder Brown Tang, Spiney Box Puffer, Columbian Shark (catfish).
Corals/Plants: Fake Plants
Tank Size: 120 gallons
Advice: I have this tank and a few other smaller tanks. I recommend beggining with an Eclipse system and reading Freshwater or Saltwater Tanks for Dummies. The Eclipse system comes with everything you need. Make sure you have time for the hobby.
Description: He sure is intriguingly ugly, yet majestic.

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