45 gallon tank journal
 

Well I've been lurking around this forum for four or five years now. Last fall I purchased a biocube 14-my first saltwater excursion after over a decade in freshwater. Anyway, I was bitten by the saltwater bug and I have now upgraded to a tank that I purchased from fellow canreef member Canadian. The tank measures 24x24x18, with a false acrylic wall in the back. The viewing/display area is more like 24x18x18. Currently there is no skimmer, will definitely be adding that down the road. For the lights I've got a 24" Sunlight Supply Tek T5 fixture 4x24watt.
I set the tank up this past Monday and transferred the livestock over the following night. On Thursday I added 20lbs or so of great live rock that I purchased from Buddyboy. Anyway, without any further ado, my tank:

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Note the old Biocube and the size difference:)
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Anyway, I'll post more pictures in the future once the dust has settled down... Thanks for looking.

Looking good. Cubes are great tanks...they always look sharp!

I'm trying to put together a wish list of fish and corals that I would like to add to the tank yet. So far I'm considering a dwarf flame angel, some more lps and some hardier sps down the road once I've upped the flow in the tank. Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.

Looking great!!

looks great, cant wait to see more pictures.

i have to beef up my cuc. I'm wondering if there are any suggestions for numbers of astrea snails, cerith, nassarius, hermits etc.