First 40 gallon reef

[jolopy409]

Hope everyone enjoys my first tank. Yes i got rid of the hob power filter with bio wheels. This was 1 month ago when i set it up. I will upload a fresh current photo of the new rock scape tomorrow

 

[200 gallon reef]

I like the scaping. What are your plans for the live stock?

 

[jolopy409]

I like the scaping. What are your plans for the live stock?

Thanks, I changed the scaping entirely recently. I put in some green star polyps, green stripe mushrooms and some finger leathers... Live stock I have NO Idea. I haven't researched many fish for my size tank that are reef safe. I like the angler fish but I read it's aggressive towards anything smaller and might be hit or miss on coral. I like the strange looking fish, the ones that catch you eye when you look at the tank. Any suggestions?

 

[200 gallon reef]

I personally like the different as well. The bat fish, wrasses, and the rare tangs are a few unique fish. Reef safe is iffy on some of the wrasse and bat fish.

 

[jolopy409]

Updated scaping. With this set up It allowed me to always add addition LR in front of my current rock. I checked out those fish, my tank is too small for them unfortunately. I like the bat fish though!

 

[francis]

what kind of lights are you using? and can you let me know how much you paid for them? I'm in the market for some new lights :x

 

[jolopy409]

what kind of lights are you using? and can you let me know how much you paid for them? I'm in the market for some new lights :x

I'm using the marineland Reef capable Led lights. All I have in the tank right now is green stripe mushrooms and finger leathers, and the green star polyp but everthing is doing great. I paid $250 for 36in on amazon back in December.

 

[jolopy409]

Well after fighting algae blooms for the last few weeks and multiple water changes an hair pulling I thought my problem was just new tank syndrome. Well no, before doing the water changes the day before I stir up all the algae off the walls and siphon as much as i can from the crushed coral and let the skimmer work over night to clear the water. While doing this i notice one of my snails just sitting behind my rock not moving so i picked it up( no fight at all ) without trying to stick to the ground. I thought this was strange so i took him out of the water and sure enough i touched him and he was hard and smelled like rotten fish. To make sure that snails don't generally smell like rotten fish i grabbed 2 more and smelled them lol. Sure enough I had a rotting snail in my tank hiding behind my base rock for 2 weeks causing my algae bloom where i couldn't see him. Finally back on track.

 

[jolopy409]

Picture of my recent addition, a todds torch. Its been about 2 months since I last posted pictures so i'll try to take some more good ones of my other corals.

 

[Nu-Nu the eel]

I personally like the different as well. The bat fish, wrasses, and the rare tangs are a few unique fish. Reef safe is iffy on some of the wrasse and bat fish.

Batfish are not reef safe and grow too tall for a 40 gallon. Tangs are too active and get to big for a 40. You can have nano fish, wrasses, gobys, clowns, cardinals, dartfish, etc

 

[jolopy409]