My Wild Adventure (or my feeble attempt at a reef tank)

[WildChurchMonkeys]

Hi all, thanks for stopping by the church of monkeys! (No religion)

Let me start by saying I am two months late in starting this tread, so let’s do a bit of history shall we. After being in the FOWLR game for a few years it became time to downsize but at the same time grow. I begin this journey by trying to select a modest little tank since the misses and kids needed room for their bookcase (knowledge is power!). So I stumbled upon an Aquatop Eco 24G AIO. It is not a bad little setup, like other AIOs but a little cheaper in price.

I set it up with some pink Fiji sand and some dry rock I had laying around from a previous aquascape redo one the 55G. Added some water and the cycle started!

 

[sp1187]

pics or it didn't happen.

 

[WildChurchMonkeys]

So after one month it was time to move my last remaining fish from my previous tank, A standard clownfish, and a newly acquired coral beauty.
Seeing how I am trying to go full reef I have been doing well with weekly 10% WCs. It’s not too bad!

A week later we introduce a blue spotted YWG. And seeing how this awesome site has in roads to live sales I purchased a few coral from @Zoanthids! some rastas and firestorm zoas They were absolutely stunning! Thanks!!

 

[WildChurchMonkeys]

Photographer I am not!

 

[sp1187]

nice layout on the rock.

 

[WildChurchMonkeys]

nice layout on the rock.

Thank you!

 

[X-37B]

I just answered your other thread. I had a aquatop 18" cube, still have but empty, for 2.5 years.
It was the one with the sump.
It was setup for 2.5 years, moved to current house at the one year mark.
Used the live rock for my 120 and It was a frag tank for awhile. Now I use the stand for my 45 frag tank for equipment and ato until I build a cabinet for all. I ran a black boxed LED and it worked well for $100.
Good luck with your setup and keep it udated.
Old pic before I moved it.