7 month old 20 gal.

This is my first saltwater reef! I have done fresh water planted tanks for years, however i must say the salt world is a lot more involved!

I have a clown, yellow-tail blue damsel, peppermint shrimp, 4 narcissus snails, a few asteras, a few margarita snails, green star polyps, green bay packer zoas ( I think), and a green frogspawn, all of which are new.

About 4 weeks ago I installed a protein skimmer and a phosphate reactor. Since then my water is much more clear and the algae is slowly disappearing!

Right now all i have are some crappy pics of the entire fish tanks, and some equipment. I will have some high quality photos of livestock and tank shots tomorrow when all the lights come back on.

 

Looks good! Your planted tank looks good too haha

 

looks good so far dude, are you getting a lot of copepod growth in your AC refugium?

 

copepod growth is actually pretty good with it, all i have in there is cheato, no rubble or sand. i also use a 10w submersible lamp and get decent growth

 

p.s. I just wanted to say we have the same amount of posts, joined the same month, and have the same size tank and a decent amount of the same species lol....

 

haha holy crap that is awesome, how weird is that!

 

Looks good so far.

 

Here are some updated pictures! Can someone give a positive ID to the zoas?

 

both tanks are sooo clean looking looks great

 

Here is the algae i am still dealing with! i added a skimmer and a media reactor about 3 weeks ago and have seen much clearer water and much less algae. However what you see here WILL NOT go away! i have even brushed it off with a tooth brush and it grows back. Any ideas? And what type of algae is it specifically?