Let's see your Live Reef Aquariums

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

Just wanted to share a few pics of my Live Reef Aquarium.
Got everything in here from starfish to Live Tridacna Clams, Serpant stars, gobies, Anemones, mated pair of true Percula clowns.
Put up your live reef tanks.

 

[burntorange70]

WOW! Thats cool. Always wanted one but don't have the space. Maybe some day. I do have some strange stuff growing in my toilet if that counts.:icon_toilet:

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

a few more!

 

[Satellite65]

That's real nice - I always liked reef tanks. How many gallons? I had a saltwater aquarium for a while. Used a 30 g (it's what I had at the time). Everything was aok for quite some time until I introduced one too many fish and the whole thing crashed on me. I moved about a month later and never had a chance to set it up again. I'll do a much larger one this time around. I have an Amiracle bio filter good for a 55 but I'd like to do one even bigger.

Any Seahorses in there? I love those things but from what I understand they're very hard to keep.

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

That's real nice - I always liked reef tanks. How many gallons? I had a saltwater aquarium for a while. Used a 30 g (it's what I had at the time). Everything was aok for quite some time until I introduced one too many fish and the whole thing crashed on me. I moved about a month later and never had a chance to set it up again. I'll do a much larger one this time around. I have an Amiracle bio filter good for a 55 but I'd like to do one even bigger.

Any Seahorses in there? I love those things but from what I understand they're very hard to keep.

Its a 90 gallon. No seahorses,too much work, you have to feed them live brine shrimp 3x's a day and their lifespan isnt too long.
i have a 500 gallon in my living room, still trying to figure out if i should make that one live reef also.

 

[Propwash]

Cool tank Superstockracer!

Few picks of my 120 Ga.

Metal Halides/Power Compacts/LED Moon Lights 720 Watts,. Down below contained in the cabinet, 40 Gallon refugium, Two PAR 38 Gro lights for Macro-algae, Two 400 watt Fluval heaters, Two Aqua C 90 Ga. Capacity Protein Skimmers, Fish Medic Fluidized bed sand filter, 2 Zora Digital Timers for lighting, Coralsea wavemaker...


I Also have Frag Tank in the basement I occasionally use to frag out and sell corals on craigslist here locally, when I feel motivated enough

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

Cool tank Superstockracer!

Few picks of my 120 Ga.

Metal Halides/Power Compacts/LED Moon Lights 720 Watts,. Down below contained in the cabinet, 40 Gallon refugium, Two PAR 38 Gro lights for Macro-algae, Two 400 watt Fluval heaters, Two Aqua C 90 Ga. Capacity Protein Skimmers, Fish Medic Fluidized bed sand filter, 2 Zora Digital Timers for lighting, Coralsea wavemaker...


I Also have Frag Tank in the basement I occasionally use to frag out and sell corals on craigslist here locally, when I feel motivated enough

Am I spying pulsing xenia in that tank along with pavona in the last picture?
I love those black saddle clowns!

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

Or are they soft Sinularia soft corals? Cant tell by the picture. Good growth you got there!

 

[Propwash]

Thanks SUPERSTOCKRACER..

Wow, you really know your saltwater creatures.. Those would be Sinularia. I'm suprised the Black Saddle Clowns are still alive. Bought them as a mated pair about 8 years ago.

Your tank has great color! You running 14,000-15,000K Lights?

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

Thanks SUPERSTOCKRACER..

Wow, you really know your saltwater creatures.. Those would be Sinularia. I'm suprised the Black Saddle Clowns are still alive. Bought them as a mated pair about 8 years ago.

Your tank has great color! You running 14,000-15,000K Lights?

PROPWASH, I'm a marine biologist. I hope I know the difference between Sinularia and Litopyton or Cladiella.lol
What is the green SPS coral in your tank? I can't tell. It looks like some sort of Pavona?

Got any tricks to get Xenia to spread rapidly?
Mine are doing fantastic but don't spread, they are pumping and my blue Anthellia is not spreading either.

 

[Propwash]

I'm a marine biologist. I hope I know the difference between Sinularia and Litopyton or Cladiella.lol

LOL!! Yeah, guess that would probably explain it! Wow, cool Job! Don't quite know what coral you're referring to as a SPS. If it's the one on the bottom left corner (up against the glass) of the last pic, that is a Devil's hand leather. The ones just up from that are Giant Rhocdactis..

I don't really know any really tricks that a marine biologist probably doesn't know already lol. I do know as soon as I ditched the fancy Fluval Filter along with the bio-balls system and went with a more natural filtration system (Refugium--macro-algae, DSB and more live rock), they all started growing like weeds.

Also when I made the transition, I watched my Nitrates and Phosphorus drop to nothing. Being a smaller self contained system, I do not run any fancy reactor's or Kalkwasser drip. Just a witch's brew of Kent's chemi's with water additions and changes along with an occasional dash of Reef Snow.

 

[69clone]

Wow and I though I was the only gear head that was also a reef freak. Don't really have any good pictures atm my mixed reef crashed awhile back and still is acting up... Lost my last fish, 4+ year old blue tang yesterday...

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

PROPWASH, I'm looking at the lower CENTER coral that looks green.

 

[roadrunnerman]

you guys have some beautiful tanks there,i personally would not have the time or patience to set one up let alone maintain it. my hats off to you guys and thanks for showing.

 

[Propwash]

Wow and I though I was the only gear head that was also a reef freak. Don't really have any good pictures atm my mixed reef crashed awhile back and still is acting up... Lost my last fish, 4+ year old blue tang yesterday...

Wow..That sucks! Sorry to hear. Those Blue Tangs go for around 80-100 bucks around here..ouch!! Purple tangs, might as well sell a limb or something.

PROPWASH, I'm looking at the lower CENTER coral that looks green.

I see, you would know better than I SUPERSTOCKRACER. It came on a piece of live rock I picked up off craigslist a couple years back as about a dime sized piece. Nice steady growth on it.

you guys have some beautiful tanks there,i personally would not have the time or patience to set one up let alone maintain it. my hats off to you guys and thanks for showing.

Thanks a bunch! Getting into reefs and the set up was definitely a time/money sucker. As the years gone by, ive learned to be much more efficient on both levels. Honestly it is pretty low maintenance now. Averaged out, maybe an hour or two a week.

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

PROPWASH, You can't bring in any Purple Tangs from Yemen anymore. YEMEN is banned from exporting to the USA. So Red Sea fish are no more as of now .Purple Tangs are a thing of the past. Too bad, great fish.