My first marine tank.

[88471]

This is my 40 breeder. Currently going through the diatom stage. Once that clears I plan to add an assortment of mushrooms, leathers, colts and pulsing xenia. It's about 12 weeks old. Current stock is a female mocha clownfish, a male ocellaris, scooter blenny, cleaner shrimp, emerald crab and other cuc. I plan to add a few bangaii cardinals and a royal gramma. Any suggestions for how to improve it are welcome.

 

[Ruben's Reef]

Welcome to R2R. Beautiful tank.I like your rock setup. I’m working on my 40g stand right now, my first saltwater tank.

 

[88471]

Thank you. I'm impatient for the diatoms to leave. Lol

 

[jsker]

Great start, tank look great:)

 

[redfishbluefish]

Looking good! What are you doing for filtration?.....HOB filter, sump, skimmer, ???

 

[88471]

I'm using a Marineland Penguin 200 and a Quiet Flow 75. Combined flow is 600gph. No skimmer as I was told I wouldn't need one with the stock and corals I want to keep. I'm going to add a jebao wp10 in the next few weeks. I'm beginning to think the brown is dinos instead of diatoms. It's spreading so fast you can practically see it. And I just noticed it's producing little bubbles.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Welcome to Reef2reef! Go slow.

Good test kits are a must and a skimmer would be helpful. A HOB skimmer will help with waste produced by the corals and fish.