so after having to shut down my 3ft tank and having sold everything except a few fish my missus decides she want to keep the clowns, so shopping we go, and find this at a bargain price, with stand, heater, filter. only thing we need equipment-wise is a suitable bulb that fits, no worries easily found
in place next to the sofa
light in, salty stuff in, all equipment working fine. running some rowaphos and a small amount of LR rubble in the filter for starters
some sand from my old tank, still full of life but rinsed to remove the cyano
bored of looking at an empty tank, so a nice bit of reef skeleton goes in with some mushies and purple stuff on, also 2 cowries and a blue leg hermit hitched a ride
moved a few of the remaining frags over aswell and treated myself to a nice acan frag
went to pick up some rock from a mate this morning, and he pretty much forced a load of corals on me too (bonus) MORE PICS.....
spent a good few hours scaping and attaching corals and frags this afternoon
ricordia rock - at least 10 big green rics
trumpet just starting to open
xenia - nice change from the normal pink
zoa garden (to be) all still closed atm, when all grown out they will cover a good 6-8inch bit of rock
swim-through/cave area
blue mushie rock, about 6 mushies on so far, hoping they will spread ncie and quickly
and finally view from my spot on the sofa.
not everything has opened up yet, i also have a hammer with about 6 decent size heads (hoping my clowns will host this), fair size bit of GSP which i hope will spread over a big rock, some yellow polyps and a couple of gorgonian frags
i also have 2 flourescent green candy-canes, 2 lobo frags and a war coral that need some love, but reef-paste twice a week should beef them up in no time
more pics will come as everything opens up and the clowns will go in after a few days, a 10-20% water change and an acceptable set of params
in place next to the sofa
light in, salty stuff in, all equipment working fine. running some rowaphos and a small amount of LR rubble in the filter for starters
some sand from my old tank, still full of life but rinsed to remove the cyano
bored of looking at an empty tank, so a nice bit of reef skeleton goes in with some mushies and purple stuff on, also 2 cowries and a blue leg hermit hitched a ride
moved a few of the remaining frags over aswell and treated myself to a nice acan frag
went to pick up some rock from a mate this morning, and he pretty much forced a load of corals on me too (bonus) MORE PICS.....
spent a good few hours scaping and attaching corals and frags this afternoon
ricordia rock - at least 10 big green rics
trumpet just starting to open
xenia - nice change from the normal pink
zoa garden (to be) all still closed atm, when all grown out they will cover a good 6-8inch bit of rock
swim-through/cave area
blue mushie rock, about 6 mushies on so far, hoping they will spread ncie and quickly
and finally view from my spot on the sofa.
not everything has opened up yet, i also have a hammer with about 6 decent size heads (hoping my clowns will host this), fair size bit of GSP which i hope will spread over a big rock, some yellow polyps and a couple of gorgonian frags
i also have 2 flourescent green candy-canes, 2 lobo frags and a war coral that need some love, but reef-paste twice a week should beef them up in no time
more pics will come as everything opens up and the clowns will go in after a few days, a 10-20% water change and an acceptable set of params