First tank w/pics - 46 Gal bow

[yukon11]

First Reef tank... I come from having an african cichlid setup. After alot of reading and good advice from this forum..... this is it so far!!

It's been up for about 3 months.. Pics are some old some new... So far so good

Obviously still a newbie to reef so any comments or words of advice welcome...

Equipment

- 46 gal. Bow front
- Sump under tank
- DelTec MC500 Skimmer in the sump
- 1 Aquaclear 50 powerhead
- 2 Aquaclear 30 powerheads
- Compact lighting
- 150w heater in sump
- 85 lbs Live Rock – 45 Tonga, 20 Kaelini Tonga, 20 Marshall
- 40 lbs Live sand

Fish

- 1 Percula Clownfish
- 1 Coral Beauty
- 1 Goby

Coral

- 1 Green Star polyp coral
- 1 Frogspawn green
- 1 Candy Coral
- 1 Sun Polyp
- 1 Leather
- 1 Orange Zoa plus some

Inverts

- 1 Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
- 1 Blood Red Fire Shrimp
- 10 Blue leg hermits
- 5 Red leg hermits
- 3 Bumble bee snails
- 2 Mexican turbo snails
- 3 Black turbo snails
- 5 Astraea snails
- 1 star

So far tests have been perfect without any major problems except for a bit of brown algae. I have a good clean up crew working away. The tank cycled great with LR and live sand. I’ve only been using RO water from a Kent Hi-s 35 filter and I top off ever couple of days in my sump.

 

[Anonymous]

Oh it's so pretty! I love the yellow ones!

Anne

 

[yukon11]

Some new pics.. Tank is doing well. Still learning and making adjustments...

 

[Quicksilver1972]

Look's Great! Keep up the good work! I also have a 46g bow front, been going for a month and 1/2, doing pretty good, thanks for the reply with the rest of your pics!

 

[rvbrow29]

GREAT LOOKING TANK. AWESOME LOOKING SUN CORAL, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU FEED THEM AND HOW OFTEN? WHAT FEEDING METHOD DO YOU USE?

 

[rvbrow29]

GREAT LOOKING TANK. AWESOME LOOKING SUN CORAL, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU FEED THEM AND HOW OFTEN? WHAT FEEDING METHOD DO YOU USE?

 

[miston]

seeing the clarity of your pics really makes me want to go with acrlyic over glass

one can be careful when cleaning acrlyic, correct? I mean if someone was REALLY REALLY careful when the cleaned the front scratches shouldn't be a problem?

 

[yukon11]

This is a glass tank actually.

 

[miston]

wow! looks great! didn't know they made bow front in glass

 

[Anonymous]

Nice. Very clean.

 

[highwayman]

Looks great! I like the balence you have in color without over doing it...

 

[fishaddict]

Looks nice