Neven's Reef

[neven]

This system has been through some ups and downs. It started as my first venture into the reef tanks with a DIY foam rock wall build in a 10 gallons with a 20 gallon sump. It ended up being a bryopsis breeding ground thanks to me using too powerful lights too close to the tank.

The next generation of the tank was from me buying 3x33 Gallon tanks from a local here, 2 of them were planned for my salt water venture, the other one to replace my 29 gallon fresh. After going through a lot of work, installing my own bean animal overflow box that i had made at a glass shop, i messed up and didn't go right to the edges with the outside box. This put a lot of stress on the back pane and while i was sleeping in the next day after transferring everything over my wife runs in yellin there's water on the floor. So that tank was gone and i downgraded to the 20 gallon i was using for the old sump.

i was happy with the 20 until my son decided to dump a whole container of NLS flake into the tank, i didn't catch it in time, so even with switching out 25% water a day for a week, the fishies all perished and i had to do something drastic. I tore down my freshwater, drilled it, tore down the 20 gallon, threw out the fouled sand, used the 20 gallon for the fresh fishies and now i was back at the 33G reef display tank. Well the transfer took 2 days, and lots of buckets and rubbermaids, and angry spouse moments.

The last hurdle i had was the nitrates started creeping up because of that food incident and me running a DSB, so i ripped out the DSB and went with a refugium, not a difficult change atleast.

I restocked the tank slowly to current levels, tripled my corals and tripled the amount the wife was angry at me too :P My latest purchase was a fragbox group buy, so here are the pics since then.

Left side of tank

left side of tank angle 2, better view of the tyree's seasons greetings and green marble mushrooms i got from fragbox

right side of tank

FTS

My Tuxedo urchin hiding


Two of the 4 things i got from fragbox:
green goblin zoas

fruitloop zoas