Alfies Little Reef (Picture Intensive)

Hi all,
Anyway, at the moment the tank is as follows

Roma 240 litre (65 US Gallon)
Red Sea Skimmer with Phos filter
Vecton 600 UV
Fluval 305 External Filter
3 powerheads
300w heater
Twin 150w halides / 2 x 54w T5 blues 4 blue actnics

Tank started beginning of May from scratch

Stock

Selection of zoa frags
Mushies
Green stripe Mush
Green tip torch
Hammers
Duncans
Leather
Toadstool leather
Finger Leather
2 coloured sunshine coral
Black sun coral
Rics
Trumpet
Brain
Acan
a couple more that I cant remember the name of :/

Prawn goby
Dragon wrasse (Impulse purchase that will be on his way when he grows up a bit)
pair of adolescent black and white clowns (that aren't completely black and white yet )
Convict tang
Foxface
2 red scooters
Red leg hermits
Algae Hermits
Turbos (need more!)
Sand star
Pink bristle star
Banded bristle star


Heres the pics from the start May 2010 to present hope you like it so far






Dragon Wrasse going to sleep under the sand

































































A few new up to date pics

3 Months old

 

Wow, cool tank. Lot's of softies. What light do you have?

 

Great looking tank

 

Twin 150w halides / 2 x 54w T5 blues 4 blue actnics

 

And thanks for the nice comments too

It is still very early days with this tank as its just under 4 months since I set it up.

I did have the typical agae bloom, (hair algae and a bit of brown on the sand) as you can see in some of the older pictures but this has retracted brilliantly in the past month.

The phos reactor is working well and obviously doing its job. As the algae can give inaccurate test results I had played a lot by ear or eye in the early stages
All the livestock and corals are feeding well and all being well it will mature into a nice tank.

Test results show zero across Phos, Nitrite, nitrate and ammonia
450ppm for calcium
Ph 8.2
Sg 1.026
Temp is 78-80
If anything my magnesium is high but from what I have read this isnt a major issue, maybe someone else could shed some light on high mg.

And finally getting the glass cleaned since the rock work caused a huge pain to get around.

Thanks again all

 

Looks good. +1

 

Very nice. And all of the pics (including close ups) are in focus, which is nice as a lot of people struggle to take in-focus close ups. Kudos!

 

Thanks

As it happens I did have probs taking close up pics in focus too. I havent got a great camera, just a Fuji finepix 3500s, which are very cheap and is about 4 years old now lol


Where I am going with this is that I was always taking pics using the highest resolution, mahes sense eh? Anyway what I found was that if I dropped the res right down not only could I zoom in a lot more but also It focused better! Also even though the res isnt great the pictures are just right to add to forums. You never know this might be useful to others

And thanks for the comments

 

youve done an excellent job alfie. tank looks great. colorful and healthy. congrats and cheers to you

guy

 

Thanks Guy, and by looking at your stock we seem to have the same taste in coral......