My ten gallon sps/clam.

[spsmike]

As promised I have taken pictures of my precious ten gallon.This tank has been through hell and back over the last 2 1/2 years. I have battle hair algae nitrates ect ect and lost a tank full of corals twice with the exception of a couple that made it the full duration.I have been sps bound for about 8 months now and in total this ten gallon holds over 27 different types of corals.I have 8 differnt types of snails and a cucumber.I have natural phytoplankton growing along with a very diverse fauna population.

Enough talking heres the pics.

 

[spsmike]

Ok, These were taken yesterday as I was trying to get some top down shots.I thought these pics looked cool as the light was in the background instead of right in front of my fac/camera.

 

[spsmike]

I am using a sleek coralife 20 inch modded into a 70 watt metal halide with 36 watt true actinic.

Heres a link for the mod with pics of how everything was done.
http://www.saltcreep.com/forums/showthread.php?t=967

The most recent mod (actinic) is on page 3.

 

[ellisz]

Wow! Awesome 10 gal. What lighting are you using?

Looks great!

 

[spsmike]

You must of posted right when I was posting the link for the light.

 

[Fluff]

That looks incredible. Well done!!

 

[ellisz]

Cool. Great job.

 

[mastershake]

wow, thats a nice looking ten, makes me wanna start a whole new tank,

 

[klam]

Good looking 10g. Nice crocea.

Are you dosing with calcium? Do you have sump? tell us more about your setup.

I was going sps tank also but decided against it because IMO sps corals only look good when grown out into a full colony. And I feel that my nano tank will be Overcrowed, possible chemical warfare going on in the future when sps frags grow out. Not to mention the amount of light the corals will block when they get larger. So I'm reverting back to softies and LPS for now.

 

[MT79]

Nice setup

 

[GSXRDan]

That is one hell of a 10 gallon setup!!! Awesome

 

[skipm]

Very nice looking tank, it looks like it was worth the fighting to get it to where it is now.

 

[lando]

Nice job!! You should be very proud.

 

[spsmike]

New addition:

 

[spsmike]

Thanks everyone.

I utilize a auto top off system with the right mix of kalk to maintain all levels of ca/alk.

I do a one gallon water change a week and my nitrates and ect are null.

Some misc pics from the tank.

Encrusting.

Some macro of digitas and teal stag.

Can see tulip anemone in left.

New crab in da house!

 

[thelovablebum]

Freakin' Sweet

 

[phishead]

Awesome!!!!

 

[spsmike]

Some cool shots I took while doing a water change.

 

[spsmike]

A couple of actinic shots.

 

[spsmike]

No one likes my tank