My First Marine/Reef Attempt

Hey all

Okay so this is my first ever reef. I have kept tropics for a few years & decided 10 months ago to start a big one It took me 2 months to have my aquarium built, I'm from England & things don't happen fast over here lol so that said my tank is only 7 - 8 months mature. My aquarium is a 5ft, 120 Gallon glass aquarium with central overflow. I have a 4ft, 30 Gallon DSB refugium sump. So to the pictures (excuse the background algae, I have been testing my Mexican Turbo Snails. Those little geezers are nuts lol, after adding some I was really impressed with the speed they ate & ran a little experiment to see how effective they could be. It seems not as good as I had hoped so normal cleaning with resume just wanted to get the pics up now )

My Main display
I have a closed canopy & the cabinet has 4 auto slow closing doors

The left side of side of my tanks

& the right side of my tank


Not too sure what sort of pictures most people would like to see so if there are any requests please leave them

Hope it doesn't look too bad for a newb attempt

 

Very cool. Any action figures inside the tank? welcome!!

P.s. I am a noob and I can only hope my tank will look this good in 4 month when it's about 8 month old too.

 

lmao, they are my collection off special edition game figurines lol I am a total looser lmao ;D

Many thanks. I bet yours will look great I look forward to seeing

 

Wow, nice! What is it lit with?

 

Can we have some close ups on the corals Kriss
and the action figures, my son often comes for a look when its pictures Im looking at

Steve

 

You should be proud, that is a beautiful mixed reef.

 

Great looking tank. I think a lot of experienced reefers would be envious. Congrats

 

Thanks very much I currently have T5s. 2x 18.000K White & 2x Actinics. Have a controller for another 2 but have held off as I'm thinking I would like to upgrade to LEDs

Steve; Pictures as requested are to follow in a couple of minutes & I will happily include the figurines

Aww thanks Corailline, that is really kind I am very pleased with it (so far lol) There is so much I need to learn & am still rubbish with names. Think this forum & all you nice people are going to be a lot of help

Thanks all

 

WOW. Thanks a lot. You guys are all so kind

 

Okay so as requested a few coral close ups. I'm afraid the majority won't be labelled as I do not yet know all of the names but I'm sure you guys will be able to tell

So one of my prouder pieces first
My Blue Gorgonian

Cornet coral I believe

A Zoa colony I think & a type of star polyp :-[


Stony coral lol this was quite bleached & lacking in colour when I bought it

My very large non stop growing Pom Pom Xenia

Also as requested Steve some figurines lol




I hope that's not too many in one go

Many more to take though