First Reef Tank

[Fishninja]

Hi everyone I have been a member for a little while now and am finally ready to show off my tank! It was set up in May and with a small budget I bought things slowly and took my time.
Tank Equipment- Heater is a Hydor koralia Pump- Hydor 425gph pump Sand- Caribsea live sand Rock- BRS Reefsaver dry rock. Filter- Aquaclear 20 with carbon.
Livestock- One black occelaris clownfish, one hermit crab, 3 snails.
Corals- Branching GSP, Regular GSP, two Acans, purple mushrooms, Finger leather coral, Frogspawn, Ricordea, Pulsing Xenia, One Zoanthid.
PICTURES!

 

[143MPCo]

Looks great thanks for sharing!

 

[Daytonareefing]

A very nice tank. Where did you buy the branching gsp from?

 

[Fishninja]

A very nice tank. Where did you buy the branching gsp from?

I bought it from my LFS it was the first time I had seen it there or anywhere in person.

 

[Fishninja]

Future plans for the tank are to get a Zoa garden started up and maybe some more Acans.

 

[Daytonareefing]

What city in Florida are you in?

 

[Fishninja]

Naples the store was Great Barrier Reef

 

[Daytonareefing]

Thank you

 

[Fishninja]

Update on the tank: I went on vacation for two weeks and had a friend take care of the tank. I hate leaving my tanks something always dies no matter how much I show the care taker what to do. I came home to a dead clownfish and a bad looking acan. I did a water change and the corals perked up. I will post a fts tomorrow

 

[ArieWasHere]

Sorry to hear about the clown fish man

 

[Fishninja]

Yeah it always stinks to loose a fish.

 

[Fishninja]

Looking at getting a fire red blood shrimp this weekend. Still debating over wether or not to have an invert only tank or to add a clownfish in the future.

 

[Fishninja]

the gsp is starting to carpet up the glass!

 

[Zero Nitrates]

Nice tank! The fire red blood shrimp are very cool!

 

[steelheader.262]

Looks great!!!

 

[Fishninja]

Update!
I have been doing water changes weekly and have just been letting the tank run. I did add a BTA to the tank about two months ago that has been doing amazing. I never did get a fire blood shrimp but it is still on my list. The acan has grown some new heads and everything has been growing except the zoanthid. Coralline algae is growing on everything!

 

[Fishninja]

Pictures!

 

[Fishninja]

Update:
The BTA moved over to the right side of the tank; everything else is doing great. Here is a picture of the acan just after it was fed some new life spectrum pellets.

 

[Fishninja]

 

[Fishninja]

I went to the lfs with some Christmas money and bought a blood red fire shrimp, a small colony of zoanthids, an Indonesian torch, and a candy cane coral! Does anyone know what kind of Zoas these are? I believe they are radioactive dragon eyes but I am not sure.