Well thanks for showing me the reef Basics in 05.

50gallon and thanks for showing me the reef Basics in 05.

Ive read alot on 3reef but never posted since i had no salt tank ,, Had freshwater for 10years. Then One in 05.i started a 6gallon reef then jumped to a 50gallon after More reading HERE and three more months.;D

Well in short i just picked up a camera .Below is what you made possible for me. Well i had to learn water Parimeters,, Lighting and so forth. 3reef thanks again.

I also made My hanging Light set up and few mods to stuff like skimmer and hang on refuge. iIl post Hardware later(DIYguy my self)

Tank Inhabitants......

40lbs of Fiji live rock..Some Small spiny clams are also on rock here and there along with sponges (white/Yellow/and some red). a bout 100+ small colony of featherdusters and and many worms and tiny white sand serpantstars and anphipods. I need to learn the Macro settings then i can get some better stuff out.

I kept it simple ,,
Onlytwo fish .
Scopas Tang and a Royal Grama I think. I always forget the little buggers name.

CORALS....
Just Four small pieces of corals are what i started with and still have.

2" mushroom(metalic green) Single
1"leather softy
2" frag of (Purple blue Branching Monti i believe)
2" maybe four piece of green button poly's were on 2"rubble. Now some where there are two colonies of 20+ mixed in with the Mushrooms;D

Ok ,, ok .. here ya go,,

Dang my pics are on Photobucket. The showed up at first then it went to text.. ill post after figure out whtat going on.

 

Wow! If understand your post, this tank is 4 years old? Or just 3 months old? Either way, looks great!

 

Hello and welcome to 3reef!
Nice tank and with a great assortment of soft corals with some Montipora Digitata thrown into the mix.
Keep it going, great job
Best of luck in the future!

 

Awesome!!!

 

love the green star carpet.

 

What are these fingers? I see you listed names up top, but not sure which is which. These look really neat.

 

Great Job! Tank looks great!

 

First ,,
Thank you everyone

My lighting is one 20k 175watt XM Metalhalide and 4 x 39watt T5 460's(blue)

The picture are with the XM only. Ill post better ones once i Figure my camera out. First time taking tank pics;D

Second ,,
Tank is 3years and two months as of December,11th 2008'


The fingers or coral you like is Montipora(Indigo ).




As you can see it has morphed (mimics the German Blue in spots now)as it has matured into different colonies while while being under various water flow through out the tank.

Under 20k its a bluish purple and with atinics its almost solid blue with bright polyps. 10k light makes it very purple with blue tips after being under 20k's. I never knew corals changed so much until i started growing one.



This stuff will grow anywhere i have put it. It started as One small Piece this size.


Amazing ,, how a single coral has many faces .


I simply made new frags about a 1/4" in size every week for the first two months. Now 3years down the road they drop fingers and produce like in the wild.

These are fragile and you can see where i had to cut back the coral . It Was above the water line. I had to frag my best colony which was 18"wide by 10"high. It fully covered the soft leather at one point in time.

 

Great placement of corals. Very natural.

 

I agree. I'd like to see a whole tank shot.


Thanks for the clarification on the "fingers" ;D