therman's 12 year old SPS system...top down shot, starting to enjoy this tank again

[therman]

I am not good at sharing images of my tanks. I'm terrible at keeping glass clean. I really enjoy seeing corals grow out into healthy colonies from small frags.

On that note, this 36x36x18 tank was set up first in 2010, moved to a new house in 2012, and nearly crashed (due entirely to my neglect) in 2013. After the near crash it was consolidated into one system with an older SPS setup, and the whole thing has evolved into a sprawling ~730 gallons across 7 aquariums and a stock tank.

I tragically lost a stunning ~18" blue squamosa that I cherished at the start of this year, but that has freed up almost 1/4 of the tank to adjust the aquascape. I'm still not quite sure how exactly I want it laid out towards the back left, but I'm really liking the interplay of color and form of the Skinny Love/24k Leptoseris/Hawaiian Pocillopora combo through the middle. This shot is taken from the right side looking across towards the left side, so the front panel of the tank is the one in the left of the frame.

Enjoy

Due to some recent changes to threads I have posted on R2R, I'm adding a list here to help people navigate to my photos of Acropora in this thread. Hopefully this works....

AV99 Orange Crush

AV99 Raptor

Bali Green Slimer

BC “therman’s rainbow” nasuta

BC Aquabat

BC Awarewolf

BC Battle de Fuego

BC Bellicose Trobairitz

BC Bleeding Tree 1.0

BC Blue Ghost

BC Bonsai humilis

BC Conveyor Belt of Fleshdunce

BC Cream City Pinky (T)

BC Dragonfly (S)

BC Firecracker table

BC Frankenberry v.1.0

BC Frankenberry v.2.0

BC Glowhorn (S)

BC Honeycomb

BC Houdini

BC Lemon Peel

BC Moneycomb/Poison Idea

BC Set for Stun (S)

BC Skinny Love 2.0 (S)

BC Spainbow

BC Ultimate Soli

BC Ultimate table

BC Where did you get that thing From the Mutha Ship

BigR WD (T)

BKChem Creme de le Creme (S)

Candy Shop Fuzzy Navel (T)

CB Flaming Phoenix

CB Flaming Unicorn

CC Bahama Mama

CC Black Hornet

CC Dark Knight

CC Disney Jr. (T)

CC Dreamcatcher

CC Frostbite horrida

CC Golden Dragon (T)

CC Hellboy (S)

CC Pink Highlighter (T)

CC Rainbow Hyacinthus

CC Red Stag

CC Ultraviolet

CC Voodoo Majick

Copps Calacali stag

Copps Turquoise hoeksemai

CR Electric Miyagi Tort

Deep Blue hoeksemai

DFS Joker

EC Valentina/Hung's Rainbow Explosion (S)

FHC Hell on Earth (S)

GARF bonsai

Greg Carroll Acroberry

Greg Carroll Ultimate Efflo

Greg hiller aqua delight

Inland Cyclops

JF Fantasy Island (S)

JF Fox Flame (S)

JF Sunday Driver (T)

Lime in the Sky

LRO Lunar Lemonade

MattV Pacific Wave (T)

ORA Pearlberry

ORA Hawkins (S)

Oregon Tort (S)

Paletta Pink Tip

PC Rainbow

Peng's Cherry Tip Granulosa (S)

Poletti yellow tip austera

Raising Reefs Blue Flame

Reefgen Blueberry Fantasy (S)

Reef Nation Purple Turaki (S)

RMF Bubble Yum

RMF Candyland

RMF Ice Age Granulosa (S)

RMF Last Dragon (S)

RMF Lucky Charms tenuis (T)

RMF Psychoberry

RMF Red Devil Nasuta

RMF Red Gecko (S)

RMF Tiger's Blood

RR Cylon Raider

RR End Game

RR Olympus (S)

RR Pink Cadillac

RRC Jawdropper (S)

RRC Shazam (S)

RRC Wolverine

SC Orange Passion (T)

Serpentman "Soli"

Snipers Blue

Sublime Granulosa (S)

Swearwolf (awesome red and yellow/green granulosa) (S)

TCK Pikachu

TGC Acrolandia (T)

TGC Count of Monte Cristo

TGC Pearly Gates

TSA Bill Murray

TSA Goody Two Shoes (S)

TUSI's Rainbow granulosa (S)

Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes (S)

Tyree Superman tenuis (T)

UC Game Over (S)

UC Siren (S)

UC Strawberry Shortcake

UC Turquoise Tort (S)

Ultimatefrags Rainbow

Vivid’s Rainbow Delight

WWC Ari's Avalanche (S) extremely limited

WWC King Fiji

WWC Purple Candle (S)

WWC Yoda (S)

 

[bubbaque]

Stunning to say the least. After seeing your for sale thread I went through your post hoping to find a thread on your but was sad to see there wasn't one. I am glad to finally see it happen!

 

[KrisReef]

Appears to be thriving and beautiful now. I can't even imagine losing an 18" Squamosa.

 

[bubbaque]

Is that that Greg c ultimate efflo in the bottom right corner?

 

[Muttley000]

Nice, I see some pieces I hope you bring chunks of to the expo next year in Perrysburg!

 

[therman]

Is that that Greg c ultimate efflo in the bottom right corner?

Good eye!

 

[bubbaque]

Good eye!

Very impressive! Do you have a pic of just that up closer?

 

[therman]

Appears to be thriving and beautiful now. I can't even imagine losing an 18" Squamosa.

It was one of the most amazing critters I've ever had the pleasure of keeping. I traded Xenia for it in 2010, and grew it from about 3".

 

[therman]

Very impressive! Do you have a pic of just that up closer?

Not a recent one. Here's my "stock" photo of it, when the colony was a lot smaller.

 

[KrisReef]

I'd put Xenia in my tank if I thought I could trade it for a clam. Thanks for posting the stunning clam pics.

 

[dodgerblew]

Beautiful Tim

 

[therman]

I'd put Xenia in my tank if I thought I could trade it for a clam. Thanks for posting the stunning clam pics.

I had 2 varieties grow out of cultured Fiji live rock I bought in 2006. That was the best LR I have ever seen...I had 2 sea hares, colonial tunicates, 2 types of Xenia, a Tubipora, and all kinds of other stuff come out of 10 lbs.

 

[BigJohnny]

Mama like. The BC skinny love on the 24k lepto is a sweet combo. I just mounted a bc houdini over a cc tangerine juice lepto and hope to achieve a similar result (although pink/purple not blue on the acro). Yellow/gold leptos are incredibly vibrant and striking, one of the most underrated corals imo.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Very nice. What lights are those that I see in reflecting off the water? Proves you dont need red, green, orange, amber ect leds.

 

[reef lover]

Beautiful squammy!! Sorry you lost him! Tank looks great![QUOTE="therman, post: 5188732, member: 1983"]It was one of the most amazing critters I've ever had the pleasure of keeping. I traded Xenia for it in 2010, and grew it from about 3".

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[SneakyTortuga]

Beautiful squammy!! Sorry you lost him! Tank looks great![QUOTE="therman, post: 5188732, member: 1983"]It was one of the most amazing critters I've ever had the pleasure of keeping. I traded Xenia for it in 2010, and grew it from about 3".

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can we get pictures of some of the other 6 tanks???

sorry to hear about the clam. that clam was just epic

 

[therman]

can we get pictures of some of the other 6 tanks???

sorry to hear about the clam. that clam was just epic[/QUOTE]

3 are just boring prop tanks like these I posted in my sale thread, one is 30 gallons of Chaetomorpha, and 2 more are quasi-display. I'll see what I can do with the new camera though.

 

[litenyaup]

Very nice!

 

[Trevor40]

Very impressive tank. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Ento-Reefer]

Super nice. I have a frag of skinny love and I hope it grows up to be as nice as yours.