and now for something completely different

The SPS dominant has been an enjoyable experience for me
but I do occasionally find myself missing the finger leathers and toadstool corals from the set up
also the inability to keep some of the more fleshy species of LPS corals such as bubbles, hammers etc in the flow dominated 5ft

so this set up will focus on the above species
I am aiming to stock with a variety of leather finger corals which will be the theme of my set up
and the LPS corals for the sand bed and lower rock tiers

I have gone for mimimal rock scape in this set up to maximise space for larger leather corals
and have avoided the rock wall on this occasion and gone for a 2 connected island theme
set up at the weekend - with uncured live rock and unrinsed sand
its still very much in the cloudy water stage
but as I will be running at least 8 weeks without lights or any higher life forms, the cloudiness will not bother me

Lights on for duration of image capture only






flow at present around 15 x tank volume , a second wavemaker will be added after this weekends trip to the LFS

Steve

 

oh nice.
i always like watching the movement in LPS. really look forward to seeing what you do with this one steve. scape looks great too, seems to have alot of potential

 

Very nice idea, rock work looks great, this will be fun to watch develop.

 

And now! At last! Another tank completely different from some of the other tanks which are not quite the same as this one.

LPS tank says he is not quite dead yet. At least not completely.

 

i find myself missing some of my old lps and leathers ,as i switched to a more sps dominated tank they had to go. Very hardy and a joy to keep, can't wait to see! lots of pictures steve!

 

Awesome Steve! Is it your birthday or something?

Also, is that by chance the same brand and size tank that you are using for your SPS Dominated system? It looks so familiar for some reason . . .

 

I like the aquascape and the Monty Python reference.

 

Man I love me some Monty Python!

 

I really like the shelf rock, definitely leaves alot of room for coral placement. Alot of substrate area too if you were to go for some plates, button's or scoly's.

 

wow the king is making a new tank i can't wait to see how this goes. subed.