60 Gallon - New To Reefs

[DCDN]

Welcome to Canreef. Lots of great information here

[monkE]

Originally Posted by Leah

Love your sand bed, your tank looks good. The second pic looks like a Xenia of some sort or maybe Anthelia. Photos are kinda dark.

Thanks Leah! definitely the Xenia, that name rings a bell.. i'll try to get better pictures tomorrow.... i took those while the light was still on moon lights

Originally Posted by zhasan

Welcome to Canreef Mike! Looks like you're off to an awesome start!

Its great to see how quickly you got started and now have livestock in the tank already. Good Luck reefing and keep the updates coming!!

hey there's a familiar face/name! how u doing buddy, thanks a lot. It's so much better than fresh water!!!! lol never thought i'd say that

Originally Posted by DCDN

Welcome to Canreef. Lots of great information here

Thanks DCDN! I'm almost overwhelmed with the sticky threads here, so much new info!

[monkE]

I went out to J&L's to bring back a cleaner shrimp that died before i even got him out of his bag. (i got him with the clown fish) and while there I grabbed a colt coral and a rock full of green button polyps. I also grabbed a ELOS phosphate test kit and a Sybon refractometer (my ventrex one didn't compensate for temp so i wasn't sure of it's accuracy...and i'm not a fan of math!)

A buddy came by my place to trade some of his frags for driftwood/fish in my 125 planted tank. He brought with him his test kits from home to make sure everything is OK with my water chemistry. All tests came up good.

After floating the frags for a while we started to place them around the tank. Some opened up immediately, others took a bit, but now they are looking good. The tank is glowing under the moon lights and i wish i could get a decent picture but no luck so far.

I already forgot the names of most of these but here's some pictures. I know there is hammer coral, a couple zoas, an electric green lps (dont remember what harp called it) and some more.

[Tn23]

Looks like a great start Mike! seems like there are alot of BCA members are here on Canreef as well! Harp is EVILLLL

[mohammadali]

nice setup , it seems to be the clowns deciding who wanna be female lol

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by Salty23

Looks like a great start Mike! seems like there are alot of BCA members are here on Canreef as well! Harp is EVILLLL

Who's Harp ?

[monkE]

Originally Posted by clown lover

Who's Harp ?

Harp is Purple Monkey

[pinkreef]

beautiful tank the sand looks really nice i like deep sandbeds imo the powerheads need to be moved up a bit to disturb the surface of the water?
looking forward to seeing this progress

[paddyob]

One point I give with nanos.... Anything you do to a small tank is exponentially more noticeable. For example, less water has little room for chemistry errors.

Evaporation is ten fold. If you don't top up daily you will have spikes in your salinity. Which could be harmful.

Temperature. In summer the tank will heat up more rapidly then a large body of water. Temperature spikes can kill your corals and fIsh if not monitored.

Good luck. Looks ok so far.

[monkE]

Originally Posted by paddyob

One point I give with nanos.... Anything you do to a small tank is exponentially more noticeable. For example, less water has little room for chemistry errors.

Evaporation is ten fold. If you don't top up daily you will have spikes in your salinity. Which could be harmful.

Temperature. In summer the tank will heat up more rapidly then a large body of water. Temperature spikes can kill your corals and fIsh if not monitored.

Good luck. Looks ok so far.

thanks for the input bud... i can't figure out how to change the title on the thread but i've actually moved from the 20 into a 60 gallon tank with a sump, so my water chem is a little less susceptible to the large swings associated with small tanks.