My First Reef Tank - Biocube 29

For those of you interested in critiquing or making suggestions, I posted some pictures in a different thread about a small problem. I included some "so-so" pictures which seemed to gain some compliments. So I thought I would post some decent pictures here for your enjoyment. It is a work in progress.

Note that not all of the corals are back to normal yet since I recently rescaped my rock and added a few shelf pieces.

My tank currently has the following:

3 Zoas
1 Nuclear Green Paly
1 Lunar Eclipse Paly
1 Cosmic Cupid Paly
1 Toadstool Leather
1 Hammer Coral
1 Frogspawn
1 Candy Cane (2 polyps)
1 Cynarina
1 Green Star Polyp
2 Pulsing Xenia (was originally one that split)
2 Acans (1 three polyp red and green, 1 two polyp orange)
2 Favites
1 Sun Coral
1 Lobo
2 Duncans
1 Red Goniopora
1 Aussie Elegant
1 Yellow Mushroom
1 Bird Nest
1 Short tentacled Orange tipped Torch
1 Shelf Coral
1 Blasto

Tank has been retrofitted with a 12k LED Strip, a Blue LED strip (both individually dimmable), and one 10k PC. Pump upgraded and added a power heads. Bioballs removed and replaced with Live Rock rubble and a carbon bag.

Fish include a Clown, Coral Beauty, Purple Firefin, and Royal Gramma.
Cleanup crew includes Yellow Cucumber, Peppermint Shrimp, Scarlet Shrimp, Emerald Crab, Nassarius Snails, Turbo Snails, and Hermit Crabs.

 

I guess that's okay for your first reef.

Looks phenomenal.

 

Thanks!

 

Very very nice.

Those LED's do a wonderful job of making the corals pop.

 

Thanks Corailline!

Yes. There was a LOT of trial and error with the lighting to get it to where it is now and still have sufficient lighting for coral survivability and growth.

Initially it was my intention to get rid of the PC all together, but the coverage I get with it is better than what I can get from the LED's.

 

dang it! it sucks when peoples first tanks look better than any tank ive ever owned!!

great looking tank dude. beautiful

 

Beautiful tank. I agree with others, pretty darn impressive given this is your first tank! I love your color variation!

 

Lol! Thanks

 

Thank you. Actually, color variation was a big thing for me. I'm still trying to create a nice balance of colors. The oranges were especially hard for me to find. I have a few more corals that I'm waiting on for this reason as well.

 

Very nice