My First Reef Tank!

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Hey all! I am new around here, but over the past month and a half have really learned a lot of beneficial things from all of your posts! My reef tank is 55 gallons, has a eshopps skimmer, two aquaclear hob filters, a powerhead, UV sterilizer, two heaters, and a fluval sea marine light. If there can possibly be any other electronics I should add, let me know lol! I’m going to attach some photos of my progress so far in this thread to keep up with everything I have done!

First, July 6th when the tank was still a 30 gal
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July 7th, the sand foggy days
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July 9th- July 14th was all the worrying about the creatures that comes with live rock!
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Fast forward through the first 11 days of the 21 day reef mature by redsea, and the tank got an upgrade from the 30 to the 55!
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(and I apparently didn’t take a picture of the 55 as soon as we had it set up)

And now, the most recent pic of the tank with new rock, fish, and two small frags to see if we are coral ready!
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The corals are a zoa and some GSP!

Sorry for the long post but I’m super excited! I hope you like it!! More updates/info to come!
 
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A little update, here is a picture of my zoas and my gsp that hasn’t opened up yet plus a picture of Benny the bicolor blenny resting in his favorite spot!
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Sorry about photo quality
 

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