My little reef (lots of photos)

[Anubisxii]

I normally don't do this often but I find myself really enjoying how my tank is starting to look. Sooo... I took a bunch of pictures of my coral and I figured I'd post them on here for everyone to enjoy. The only coral that's not pictured is a pink or gold tipped hammer. The reason it's not pictured is it's in a really bad spot (hiding in the corner) hopefully the GF can help me move it tonight where the rest of my hammers are.

Tank was initially set up in June first as an 18.5 gallon all in one I eventually added a sump that was a DIY sump I built. Then last month we ended up upgrading to a 40 gallon breeder, hoping to upgrade to waterbox or Red Sea in the near future, I just don't want to set up a tank currently where we live, our lease is up in July and I think we're going to move somewhere where we're on the first floor where I'd feel more comfortable setting up a hundred plus gallon tank.

 

[Anubisxii]

Feel free to chime in with any comments. I love hearing any form of feedback. I'm really glad I got into this hobby it's been a blast although a bit of a money sink, it's been worth every dollar.

 

[WIReefer]

Think your tank looks great! Nice pieces you have!

 

[Chrisfish]

Welcome to R2R, your tank looks great!!

 

[revhtree]

Glad you did! Looks good!

 

[Devaji]

I think we need a full tank shoot!

 

[Richard ML]

Seconding the full-tank shot request! Are those clove polyps in the sixth picture? They look nice under the actinics.

 

[Anubisxii]

They are clove polyps. I was told they are mandarin clove polyps. Funny enough their moving off the frag plug and running twords the light. Here are some older piks right after we set it up. Last one I just took, but under moon lighting so it's not great, I'll post more tomorrow am.

 

[Richard ML]

Looks great. Love the scape.

 

[Anubisxii]

Thank you. I need to clean something's up. Wiring is a mess under the tank, I'm going to upgrade from a diy sump to trigger crystal sump 18x18 and get a red sea 300 protein skimmer. Hopefully I'll order all that on the 15th. I also need to figure out a better way to mount the red sea LED's not happy with them screwed into the wall. But the rim on the tank bends big time with both set up that way.

 

[Johniejumbo]

I’m a fan of 40b tanks. Like the dimensions a lot and it’s not too expensive to upkeep! Scape looks good!

 

[Anubisxii]

Thank you I appreciate it. I am a fan as well. I am sure I will upgrade again in a 8 or so months but in the mean time I'm happy I might keep this as a frag grow out tank but we'll see.

 

[Anubisxii]

Some more photos