SD Reefer's 16 Gallon Nano Reef

SDReefer · Apr 1, 2017

Hello everyone! I started this tank up at the beginning of the year as an upgrade from a 10 gallon fish only tank. It's been going great so far! Please let me know what you think of it and how I can improve it.

Equipment

2 Aqueon QuietFlow 10 Powerfilters
1 Packet of Purigen
1 Filter Bag of DeNitrate
1 Hydor 100W Heater
1 BioCube Protein Skimmer
1 560 GPH Powerhead
Galaxyhydro 165 W LED Light

Livestock

≈15 lbs live rock
2 Tank-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
2 Green Rhodactis Mushrooms
Gorgonian Frag
Unnamed Green Acropora
Unknown Brown/Purple SPS
"Barney's" Tabling Acropora Frag
Green Montipora digitata
Green with Purple Tips Bubble Tip Anemone
Pink Birdsnest
Green Star Polyps
Green Montipora capricornis
Xenia
2 Toadstools
Red and White Favia Frag
Duncan Polyp
Kenya Tree
Red Montipora capricornis
Frogspawn
2 Random Zoanthid Frags
1 Trochus Snail
1 Astrea Anail
2 Hermit Crabs
1 Mini Brittle Star (Hitchhiker)
Numerous Bristleworms (Hitchhikers)

Parameters

Temperature - 78-80 F
Ammonia - 0 ppm
Nitrites - 0 ppm
Nitrates - none detectable
Phosphates - none detectable
pH - 8.0 - 8.1
dKH - 8 - 9
Calcium - 460 ppm

Thanks everyone!

Foxy-88 · Apr 1, 2017

Looks great!!! Your tanks a little purplish pink. Have your self a solid mixed reef though!!

SDReefer · Apr 1, 2017

Yeah I noticed that the pictures look a little purple. The light fixture has some reds so maybe they're messing up my camera?

Foxy-88 · Apr 1, 2017

SDReefer said:
Yeah I noticed that the pictures look a little purple. The light fixture has some reds so maybe they're messing up my camera?

No worries. Cameras can never do justice to seeing tanks in person. When I take pictures of mine, depending on my different settings throughout the day, it's either blue in the pictures during midday (white in person), or purple blue and white later in the day (light pink/ white in person)