2.5 gallons of greatness

[fishoholic]

This tank started as my 2012 nano contest tank. I really love this tank so I've kept it going. Here's a link to the contest journal thread if you want to look back and see the beginning's of this set up. It went from a maxi mini anemone tank to a reef tank

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=89848

The light I was using was an ok light but the coral colours didn't pop like they should of so I upgraded to a halo par 38 led light from fragbox and I am very happy with the upgrade. I also changed a few of the corals around, and thanks to the new light the red/brown monti at the top of the tank has now turned into a superman monti

Before pic with old lights


pic taken right after setting up new light


Pic taken today with new lights


Closer up pic's

top half of tank


bottom half of tank


Pic of tank and new light

[dino]

2.5 really are you sure lol amazing job

[fishoholic]

I should add that the contents of this 2.5g tank are; a Barnacle blenny, blue spot anemone shrimp, porcelain/anemone crab, pom pom crab, scarlet hermit crab, nassarius snail and a trochus snail. I have mostly zoas, a neon green candy cane coral, superman monti, bleeding apple scoly, 2 fancy mushrooms and a ricordia.

Doug took a bunch of pic's after I got the new light so enjoy

[Tn23]

very nice setup and beautiful zoas!
how far up are you running the par38 ontop of the tank?

[fishoholic]

This shrimp is well fed and while he moves around on the zoas he doesn't hurt/eat/pick at them like the sexy shrimp did


I may have posted these last 2 pic's in my old thread but there worth sharing again

[mrhasan]

You are well overstocked and should give away those corals before any harm is done

And your pico is awesome!

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by dino

2.5 really are you sure lol amazing job

Thanks and yes it's only two and a half gallons! I had some great rock to pick from (took it out of my boyfriend's sump) and was able to create an over hang and a cave (can't really tell with the corals covering the rock) but here's a pic of the rock from when I first set it up

Originally Posted by Salty23

very nice setup and beautiful zoas!
how far up are you running the par38 ontop of the tank?

Thanks, I'm running the par38 about 8-10 inches above the tank. I also have a mesh screen/egg create cover over this tank to keep the bleeny in, which with the par38 helps to cut back on some of light as it is a powerful light (no dimmer) for such a small tank.

[lastlight]

what are those really red zoas up top under that encrusting thingie? and those are rastas down at the bottom right?

really nice polyp collection in a small tank. concentrated awesome.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

You are well overstocked and should give away those corals before any harm is done

And your pico is awesome!

I think there's room for all to grow out nicely and thanks

Originally Posted by lastlight

what are those really red zoas up top under that encrusting thingie? and those are rastas down at the bottom right?

really nice polyp collection in a small tank. concentrated awesome.

Do you mean the ones I circled? Under the encrusting superman monti, between the sunny d's and space monsters?



this is a close up Doug got of them when the new light was first put up, as you can see they are brighter now. FYI I love my par38


Those are super awesome red/orange with a purple ring in the centre (I have no idea what they're called but I could come up with a cool name if you'd like) zoas and yes those are rasta's which are finally looking like rasta's under the better lights.

[fishoholic]

The rasta's went from this


to this


I had actually thought that they weren't rasta's and that a mistake had been made, crazy what a difference a light can make. Although I think they still have some colouring up to do, but they're getting there and they've come a long way in a month.