2024 Full Tank Shots (FTS) photos! Show off your reef here!

[Gumbies R Us]

Here's my reef tank. I'm very new to this. I know I need better lighting but I'm also on a budget. It's a 36 gallon tank with live rock and sand, 3 zoa's, 1 goni, 1 duncan, 1 hammer, 2 acans, and a gsp, 3 peppermint shrimp because I did have aptasia and a mocha clownfish that has a personality of a puppy.

Not a bad start! Is that all the rock you want in there, or will you add more?

 

[Rudolph84]

Not a bad start! Is that all the rock you want in there, or will you add more?

I will definitely be adding more.

 

[Northern Flicker]

 

[Swede's Reef]

Somebody on the Polo Reef facebook group asked me if my tank was freshwater...

Sure is the nicest freshwater tank have seen.... It must have been a lot of trouble acclimating all the coral

 

[i cant think]

My 5’ tank is coming along nicely, now starting to focus on the coral and have one big batch of wrasses to enter (6 in total I think).

 

[Gumbies R Us]

How long have you had your tank? It is filled with amazing coral!

 

[Northern Flicker]

How long have you had your tank? It is filled with amazing coral!

5 months for the tank but much of the livestock about 2 years.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

5 months for the tank but much of the livestock about 2 years.

That tank has filled out nicely in 5 months! What was the size of your tank before that one?

 

[Shawnd08]

 

[pearlela]

Disease & risk management. If I put all the corals and inverts in first, I can wait 75-90 days before adding quarantined fish to help mitigate the risk of ich or worse. Also wish to have a regal angel again. I am hoping a small regal added to a tank full of healthy coral will be less likely to nip/consume coral. Of course I realize fish are like employees, you never know exactly what you will deal with until you've worked with them for awhile! I feed this system 125ml of phyto every night and mix reef roids/goniopower/other coral food + ab+ every other night to help mitigate the lack of fish
@Troylee I welcome your input on my plan, I followed your build long ago before you took an extended leave from the hobby

I wonder how your plan of adding regal angel worked. When I replaced my lights and my leather started to green up with polips extensions my blue hippo of 9 years decided to use it as salad bar and nipped all over it.