My SPS dominated reef

[reefsahoy]

Hello all. I've been around awhile and just found this forum. Hopefully i'll find some old friends and reefers here and make new ones.
I've been around aquariums for some time now but have recently gotten really serious in the last year or so. Read lots about the hobby, researched even more. For me an aquarium is not just what's inside the glass box but the entire setup, the whole experience. It should look uncluttered and clean for the viewer. It should be as quiet as possible, look nice in the location and obviously it should look appealing inside the glass box. That being said, my tank is a 3 sided rimless starfire aquarium and here's few pics of my aquarium. These pictures are of my aquarium when it was upgraded and the corals were recently introduced into the tank thus the coloration of my corals are not as vibrant as when i had them in the origional tank.

the left island from the side.

left island from the front

the right island from the side.

 

[I-K@ndY]

Nice tank

 

[ReeferRob]

Very clean, good looking tank.

 

[revhtree]

Very beautiful! Welcome to R2R!

 

[reefsahoy]

Nice tank

Thanks Pnoyreefer!

 

[reefsahoy]

Very clean, good looking tank.

here's a pic of the setup where you can see the lights and partial stand. Everything that is used is stored under the stand so ther is no clutter around the tank. The light were high because all the corals were transfered and was being acclimated to the new light. I have since lowered the fixture and moved some of the corals to their final places. please excuse the red cup, i was letting a mushroom attact itself to a coral shell so i could then glue it to a position.

the latest picture of the tank is actually the first picture posted and that was 8_12_09. Some of the corals have now colored up some and looks alittle nicer. I will eventually post some more recent pictures in a couple of months when the tank grows out some more.

 

[reefsahoy]

Very beautiful! Welcome to R2R!

Thank you very much!

 

[reefsahoy]

here is my updated picture. I have done no photo shop or photo editing. what you see is what you get. I upgraded my lights to 2 x 250 HQI's with 4 t5's. These picture were taken 4/3/2010. please excuse the frag rack.

left island

 

[reefsahoy]

right island

newest additions

 

[reefsahoy]

partial left island shot

love the clam

 

[Blackhawk Fan]

Looks great! Keep those pics coming.

 

[reefsahoy]

a closeup back 3/1/2010

another closeup

 

[reefsahoy]

Looks great! Keep those pics coming.

thanks!

 

[ndy 1026]

Very Nice Clean Tank
Awesome Colors

 

[soccerbag]

Great growth for sure! Have you been dosing some steroids? lol

 

[reefsahoy]

Very Nice Clean Tank
Awesome Colors

Thanks! the colors are really poping since i changed bulbs. the pictures are without any t5 or atinic supplements. i only run the HQI's thru the day and use the t5 for dusk/dawn transition.

 

[reefsahoy]

Great growth for sure! Have you been dosing some steroids? lol

thanks. no steroids here lol. i don't dose too much of anything. i do water change every 3 weeks or so and use a kalk and ca reactor.

 

[MAKcorals]

Nice tank and good pics! Thanks for sharing

 

[stunreefer]

Looks awesome, keep up the great reefing!

 

[m and m]

Whats the size,dims and brand of that tanmk it's pretty sweet!