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Hello everyone. I was wondering how I can improve my aquarium overall I've kind of been neglecting it for the past couple of months, not in the sense that animals are getting neglected but I've kind of lost my passion for it. I haven't been looking at anything fish related or looked into getting new fishes or corals because what I have isn't enough or improving anything. It's far from how I want it to be. I went to an aquarium yesterday and saw a beautiful reef tank I want to start improving mine. The only thing that has developed the past 3 months is the ugly stage going away and my duncan coral growing 3 extra heads at once, and my chalice coral getting like 1.5x bigger, the rest is the same.
It feels so underwhelming compared to other tanks, I'm not getting any new livestock for a long while until I have everything figured out, my plan is to move my corals up to a rack because the par of my light isn't enough down low. Then get a better light and also get about 20 pounds of live rock to help seed my tank. Maybe re arrange the rockwork to the right half of my tank because it looks man made. Any other ideas? it can be anything at all (my phone makes it overly blue ignore that.)
The look I want (without as many different corals, softies preferably
My setup:
6+ month old tank
125 gallon aquarium
100 lb of sand 80 dry:20 live
80 lb of dry started rock
fluval fx4 canister filter
fluval 60 inch coral light (200 par)
no sump
For livestock
Zoanthids - sandbed
GSP -sandbed
Duncan (middle of tank)
Chalice - sandbed
Blasto - sandbed
2x clownfish
3x yellowtail damsels
It feels so underwhelming compared to other tanks, I'm not getting any new livestock for a long while until I have everything figured out, my plan is to move my corals up to a rack because the par of my light isn't enough down low. Then get a better light and also get about 20 pounds of live rock to help seed my tank. Maybe re arrange the rockwork to the right half of my tank because it looks man made. Any other ideas? it can be anything at all (my phone makes it overly blue ignore that.)
The look I want (without as many different corals, softies preferably
My setup:
6+ month old tank
125 gallon aquarium
100 lb of sand 80 dry:20 live
80 lb of dry started rock
fluval fx4 canister filter
fluval 60 inch coral light (200 par)
no sump
For livestock
Zoanthids - sandbed
GSP -sandbed
Duncan (middle of tank)
Chalice - sandbed
Blasto - sandbed
2x clownfish
3x yellowtail damsels
