I continued to add aditinal LR as well as base rock to beging my first ever aquascape to my 75 galon corner bow.
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/DSC_0038.jpg

http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/DSC_0039.jpg

I allowed the tank to idle for close to three months, then i slowly started my decent into this beutifle adiction. I started to stock the tank I added 2x chalk basselets, 1 royal grandma and ...... a male blue deval damsel. All such radiant fish to watch but adding more stock to the tank resulted in a problem with the damsle. I never wanted nore thought a fish was so teritorial, but lesson learnt. Me and my brother inlaw spent the night catching him, so that he could be relocated.
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/DSC_0040.jpg
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/DSC_0103.jpg
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/DSC_0107.jpg

The fish i was adding to the tank was a Tiger sand sifting goby as well as a lawnmoer blenni,

http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/DSC_0161.jpg
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q.../DSC_00032.jpg

I started off with a mushroom rock as my first coral, all water lvls and peramiters were good. One week after that rock went in I Went through a massive algea bloom again, one I nor my brother inlaw had ever seen....There are no pics of this as I was quite frustrated and trying everything to clear it up. Finaly after multiple water changes, different media and eventually, a uv sterilizer is what cleared it all up. "HAHA i could see my fish again and my beautiful mushroom rock!!!! .........That had no mushrooms on it anymore."
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/DSC_0015.jpg

ok there are many storys in between there and now and i could spen all day typeing them out. Instead i'll go for the quick sum up and if there is a request for more i'll post them lol. So here is a pic on the tank at the 1 year marker point.

http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...PA231940-3.jpg

A continuation of from then to now, month 1.
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/clear2-1.jpg
1 year
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...PA231940-3.jpg
and current
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/9c393def.jpg

almost all the corals in my tank started a little over and under the size of my thumb nail.
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/c7ccbe74.jpg
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/eafb020a.jpg
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/07aaf55e.jpg
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/0367fc73.jpg
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/DSC_0012.jpg
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/cdf95db7.jpg

Is that a Dendro I see in the cave at the Year One picture? Still have that coral?

Very nice, my damsel is the tank terror - as it turns out I finally got him out and he is headed back to the fish store soon it will be a happy day....even though I have had him
for 3 or so years.

yes it is a dendro, and yes i still have it, it grew four new heads roughly 4 months ago and bing in the lower light of the tank it developed lage amounts of coraline, here is a pic of when it was in its glory,
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...IMG_0047-1.jpg
since then it is now on a reverse cycle opening only in the dark, some resent reserch on the net says that they can be ajusted over a period to a 400 watt MH. so recently i have slowly rased it higher in my tank to see it i can get it back onto the right path.

Here is another photo of my neon gree candy cane
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/P7134259.jpg
as well as my neon blue one
http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/q...DSC_0022-1.jpg

Boy has that tank come a long way from day 1 Niall! Keep up the good work and it will only get better! Happy reefing!:wink:

Welcome to the friendliest forum in Canada.

Feed it mysis and other meat and it will love you.