July's featured reef profile is our member TheCuban1040 and his 24 gallon nano reef!



Click the picture above to check out his reef profile! You can find TheCuban1040's tank journal here in our Members Aquariums forum. Feel free to post any comments or questions you may have for TheCuban1040, and he'll try his best to answer them.

Congrats! Great choice.

Beautiful tank! Congratulations!

Yep. Amazing tank! Congrats!

Yet another awesome TOTM

Wow awesome tank, how did I miss this one!

congrats

Congratsssssssssssssssssssssss

Tucson in the house!!! Sonora4eva! Props, Luis.

Haha, representin' Tanque Verde Rd. to the fullest son!

Thanks for all the kind words peeps

Hey, wait! I just realized: your TOTM has some of my gsp in it. And my tank has some of your TOTM's bubble pearl. This is close as I'm ever gonna be to famous! Woot!

Your Neon GSP is definitely what put me over the edge buddy! I'll have to let you take a sip out of Lord Nano-Reef's Cup.

How is that bubble doing by the way? Did it green up for you?

Great Tank, Great choice! Congrats

nice choice, amazing tank....

Congratulations! I wondered when your tank would be TOTM...

Yayyyyy!!!! Congrats Cuban!!

Robin

Congrats Luis...
Now for sure those candy canes are gonna be outta my reach since your tank made TOTM. Gorgeous tank, trade my AP for yours? LOL

congrats.. very nice tank..

Congrats Mr Cuban!!

congrats! i really like the mix of corals and aquascaping! very nicely done!

Props on a beautiful tank. Great colors.

Fantastic tank. Congrats!

Love the variety and the low fish load. Keeping it simple as possible. Perfect. Just bookmarked your Tank profile in my fav collection.

I'm now kicking myself that I haven't been taking monthly FTS progression pics like you have. Well done.

Congratulations on being selected. Your tank is beautiful, I lke the mix and colors of coral!

Congrats!!!!!

Thanks for all the praise everybody, I really appreciate it.

roselavy: I got the idea to take "progress" pictures from people on this site before I even got the tank. It's really cool to look at the older pics and see the stages that a tank goes through. Now they are just looking more and more cluttered!

basser: Thanks, it's an honor to follow a tank as awesome as yours! You have the coolest dendros I have ever seen.

I have the same tank and set it up at the same time that you did (pretty much). I have just set your photo as my screen saver to keep me motivated. Your tank is beautiful and exactly the nano dream! I haven't been able to move as quickly 1: b/c of money but 2: I have had some real water issues. I am really going to take your advise and try to simplify. I have all of the gadgets and still cant seem to get my water straight.

Your tank is awesome and I am going to follow your posts! Thanks for all the great info and for sharing your progress!

Seeing the TOTM's each month really motivates me to spend more time and money on mine, this month's is not exception.

Congratulations!

Good choice for the TOTM. I remember drooling over it a few months back. Seems that people who do weekly 10-20% water changes end up with real nice looking tanks.

Jeez Megan, I made it to your screensaver? This is the closest I will ever come to being a rock star.

K - I wonder if the people who do weekly water changes are just the ones that obsess over their tanks the most and are willing to spend at least one day a week making sure everything is working perfectly. There have been a couple times where I get busy, or I'm out of town for a few days and I don't do the WC for 2 weeks and I end up slacking on scraping the glass and basting the rocks and the decline of the general health and appearance of the tank is definitely noticeable. ...Interesting theory

Someone should etch that in stone.

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL tank!

I only wish I could get mine to that level some day.

Congratz!!!

WORDS TO LIVE BY!!!
Keep those water changes up, and you will NEVER have to clean or worry about water levels.

I never clean ANY of my tanks or bother checking water levels. I spot check them once in a while and they are always at 0 for the bad stuff.

Those water changes are THE KEY to a healthy aquarium of ANY kind.

I think I spend less than 15 mins a week on maintenance for all 3 tanks because of the weekly religious water changes.

You have a beautiful tank...Hope mine looks as nice when I set it up...Thread coming soon...

Congratulations! Very nice!

grats on the nice tank... we all LOVE it

Thanks again all.

I have been trying to figure out what else to add to the tank but it's very close to being totally full. The final touch that I want to put on it is a nice piece of Sunset Montipora. If anyone has a good source for some please PM me!

It has been an awesome privilege to hold down the home page for the past month. Thanks to everyone for all their nice comments. I can't wait to see who's next!

OMG.... Luis.... Simply amazing....

I am truley inspired by your tank! I have a few questions. do you still use the bioballs in your system? and do you have a refugium?

Hey thanks Crusty! I never used the bioballs and I don't have a fuge. I just have some pillow stuffing on the intake and that's about it. All my filtration is done with live rock