Zechenia's 28 Gallon Bowfront Beginner Reef [UPDATED]

Very nice. Everything is looking great!

 

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It will be watching them grow out. Nice adds!

 

I'm hoping they do good. A local reef club member has a ton of acro's he's selling for great prices. Using these frags to test the waters before I jump on some of em!

 

That sounds like a good idea

 

Exciting Love the clam, it looks exactly like the one I have, like dead on. Did it stay up in the rocks where you put it since day 1? Mine cliff dived like twice and I put it on the sand under some rubble rock.

 

Nope, it took me a while, I had to get it at an angle it liked where it could put it's foot down right, and get the light it wanted. Took a couple days of maneuvering it before it was happy. Now it seems to be doing great!

 

Congrats.

Seems like just yesterday it was a cycling tank, my how time flies. Now sps, very cool.

 

Welp, it's been forever, so time for an update. I will add some pictures in the future (hopefully Monday night).

The Bad:
I think I commented earlier, but I got pyramid snails, and lost my clam. Definitely sucked.
Went on vacation, had a non-reefer watch my tank, and lost some of my small SPS frags, cleaner shrimp, and my duncan is super struggling. Lightning storms/utility work knocked out my power constantly, and when it came back, it tripped my gfi. My tank sitter would come home each day to my tank being completely off. I feel lucky that I only lost what I did.

The good:
I redid my scape after losing my clam, and Love it.
My algea issues have dropped way off, my surviving coral seems to be flurishing. I've decided that with the tank this size, it's just too hard to keep things super stable, so I am sticking with basic coral. Seems, that's what guests who look at my tank seem to like most (I have a pulsing xenia that I swear I couldn't kill if I wanted to... that seems to be the primary "that's so cool!" thing in my tank).

Current Livestock:
1 Tail Spot Blenny
1 Six Line Wrasse
2 Clowns (not sure between Oc or P)
Random Snails/Hermits
Small Brittle Star (he's a hitchhiker. Only ever see his tiny tenticles peaking out from time to time)

Current Coral:
Pulsing Xenia (huge)
Couple Acans (one is happy, one I got looking "meh". It's still surviving but hasn't ever gotten better really)
Pink Zoas, Orange Zoas, Red and Green Zoas
Couple random Palys
Couple Montipora Capricornis
Montipora Setosa
Ricordea Florida Mushrooms
Blue Mushrooms
Blue Sympodium
Green Star Polyps
Duncan (Struggling - I love these corals but haven't had success )
Torch
Green FrogSpawn
Blue Brain Worm

Equipement Changes:
Finally got the ReefAngel Wifi (should be here today)
Running a BRS single reactor with carbon and GFO. Currently this feeds my HOB Fuge, as the fuge pump died on me (also while I was on vacation...)

I'm going to be replacing the Cleaner Shrimp. Petco is just the only local place that has had them. And their tanks have looked worse then normal the last few times I've been in.

 

Hope the power comes back on for ya' If you post pics of your clownfish I can ID them.