For January we're featuring GobyInPeace and his 40 gallon nano reef!



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

Wow- that is beautiful!

congrats!!!and happy new year...

Very nice! A great tank for a new year.

Another excellent TOTM!!!

gorgeous tank! wow, i love the coral layout!

congratulations!

Congratulations! Your tank thread was one of the few that automatically looked like a TOTM-worthy setup.

Congrats, beautiful tank.

Thats a inspiring tank congrats. Brings a tear a noobs eyes just lookin at it

crazy colors in there.....nice work and cant wait to see tank in person on friday and get that frag.

^ I'm jealous

Awesome choice.

Well deserved! Elegant tank, in terms of its simplicity and the beautiful results you've achieved.

+1 to all the other comments. That is one incredible tank

Congratulations!!! That tank is just simply beautiful!!!

Excellent choice for TOTM!!!

Such a beautiful tank! Well done!

Very nice tank and a well deserved TOTM! I also never knew you wwere from South Florida and pretty much got started keeping SW the same way I did, when I was about ten my dad and I started a FOWLR 75 with the goal to keep it simple and have everything handcaught by us. That didn't last to long and now its a full blown softies reef with all fuish from other locales, still have a few zoanthids we collected though. Now i moved on to SPS and Nanos.

Congrats you totally deserve TOTM!!!

Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for the kind words and responses. What an honor it is to be selected as this year's first featured tank. Please feel free to post any questions you may have and I'll try to address them as soon as I can.

Nick's Reef ~ I enjoyed my few years collecting in Fl. but unfortunately the only thing I can collect now is frostbite as I moved back to my home town in Wisconsin. Its days like these that I miss the sound of the surf and all that comes with it.

Great tank!

Woo hoo! Congratulations this tank is an inspiration to many on here..well deserved TOTM

Props on a beautiful tank.

There is nothing like the beauty of a matured tank. Very nice and well deserved.

OMG....TOTY, im calling it right now. Great job!

i see the rainbow!
this is a great TOTM start of the new year.

Congratulations! This is such an amazing tank, so full of life and color.

Congratulations on a beautiful tank and TOTM!

Congrats GobyInPeace Your tank is absolutely stunning, beautiful with lots of colors. All the colors and corals are place so nicely that makes the tank look so amazing!

Very nice! Definitely one of my favorite tank

Awesome

Tank just explodes with life and color

What an incredible achievement GobyInPeace!

Congratulations! This is by far the most visually stunning tank I have seen on this forum.

good job goby! this tank is amazing, and all your hard work is well appreciated by the rest of the NR community.

congrats! great tank!

I just wanna say that this tank even looks brighter in person.The colors just pop out like crazy and couldnt believe my eyes today when got to check it out.

Oh my.

I had been wandering around this forum (new to it as of today) and I had read several threads with the usual forum one-up-man-ship that invades a public venue such as this...I'm not new to aquaria but new to salt water tanks, and was looking for some time/money saving tips and general information and was battered with the usual chest pounding that goes on. I was reaching for my mouse, ready to search elsewhere when I saw this thread.

I no longer care WHAT is going on in those other threads. I am inspired.

An incredible example of living art. Thank you so much for your dedication to your hobby.

Now, I have a goal.

I'll try not to stalk you, but can't guarantee it.

Wolf

Well deserved TOTM - beautiful tank!

Great Job man! It's a bute!!!

very jealous of your design, I wish I was more dedicated to my hobby like you. Good Job!

stunning tank! VERY nice! I can only aspire to look like that

I like the chaeto in the tank idea. I think I may get another little ball of it and stick it in a corner or something. How do you keep it attached or from floating around? or does it just attach it self since it's a plant or what?

The blackout idea sounds like a good one ... I think I may try this, as I am battling some serious algae right now. GHA and the red slime (diatom?) stuff. Since that junk grows off light... eliminating the source sounds like a good idea.

Thanks for the kind responses everyone!



The chaeto is wedged between the rocks and glass and can't go anywhere.

Good luck with the blackout. There is a big thread I started on RC about 3 days with-out lights it has lots of info you might want to check out.

Stunning tank! Wow...

Mine looks like crap by comparison.

Beautiful colors!

nice, kinda crossing the line of nano though!

There are quite a few 40 breeders on this site in case you have not noticed. There are also quite a few smaller tanks that have more elaborate set-ups and total water volume than mine.

Jonathan....

40 is nano enough...

scrape the front of your tank, btw.

that is an awesome tank and setup well done well done!

Very well deserved, can you explain how to use Aqua Clear as a surface skimmer?
Thanks

Beautiful tank! Question about the dragonface pipefish. I am dying to get one but have not pulled the trigger yet. I have alligator pipefish that eat painfully slow. If the flow in my tank was any faster, I would wonder if they would starve chasing down food. Has your pipefish adapted to your currents well when feeding? I think mine actually likes the current when not feeding. Seems to hang out by the high current areas a lot.

You are just jealous

Thanks for the kind responses everyone!



There is an attachment Hagen makes that I modified using parts from an old HOB.

Here is a pic:



*Drilling the holes allowed the skimmer to run silent and eliminated air bubbles from being released by the HOB.



Thanks! I reduced my flow dramatically for the pipefish. I changed out all 4 of my powerheads for mini powerfilters. These little filters have smaller grates of which the pipefish can not fit through. They are configured to create a Gyre pattern or a wide band of flow rotating around the rock work. The flow is gentle but effective. Dragon face pipefish behave much differently than other pipefish. Mine basically roams the tanks subtrate and rock like a slow mandarin. It is almost always laying along the substrate, rock work and corals. Its behavior is much more like snake than a fish. Mine is now taking frozen baby brine and has grown considerably in the few months I have had it.