In this thread, all [CUSTOM] contestants must post 2 photos of their contest entries.

Photo #1
Current photo of your contest entry that includes holding a toothbrush in the shot to prove it is current.

Photo #2
Photo of your contest entry in all its glory without the toothbrush.

Please include tank specs and livestock list in your post!

You have a week (possibly a little more) so GET MOVING!

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Well I was the last to register, so I'll be the first to update.
TOOTHBRUSH!


And an updated:



Specs:
Equipment:
2.5 minibow
Strange walmart brand filter/fuge
Coralife mini aqualight 1-actinic 1-10,000K(soon to be 2-10,000K)
Yeah thats it.

Livestock:
Bam bam orange zoas
orage widow zoas
pink zoas/palys (large colony is being moved back to main)
Brown Xenia
Anthelia
Candy cane
Red and green blasto
teal and green blasto
greenish ricordia
brown/green pimpled mushroom
red green and purple zoas
purple and blue acan/blasto?
star polyps
SMALL long tent. toadstool.
green toadstool (may be moved but is REALLY liking this tank)
clove polyps
halimedia
sawblade carpula
I think thats it.

3 lbs liverock
3lbs grey sand/ocilite stuff

Specs:
Custom Acrylic 23x5x5"
Surge Device - 2.5g AGA sump
23" T5 Finnex fixture - 48w (2x24w)
Quiet One 1200 pump
Hagen Mini Compact Heater 25w
Chemipure

Livestock:
Green Blastomussa Wellsi
Orange Tubastrea - Sun Coral
Green Ric Yuma
Red/Pink & White Ric Yuma
Red Micromussa amak.
Orange Zoanthids
Blue Spot Mushroom
Blue Mushroom
Blue Lithophyllon
Pink Sparlklies Palythoas
Red Blasto Wellsi
Electric Green Zoanthids
Peach Center Denim Zoanthids
Blue Star Zoanthids
Red-Pink Echinophyllia
2 feather dusters
Red-Grey-Green Acanthastrea Lordhowensis
Blue Candy Cane
Green Rhodactis

3lb Fiji Premium
3lb Tahitian Black Sand

The identification of all specimens below was done to the best of my ability using
multiple published and online resources. At the very least, All IDs should be accurate to the Genus.

SPS tank

Fish
1 – Eviotea sp. Goby, red and white w/ blue eye markings
2 – Trimma sp. Goby, solid red

Inverts
3 – orange turbo snails
1 – astrea snail
2 – tricolor (dwarf blue legged) hermit crabs

Corals
1 – Acropora sp., neon yellow w/ neon green tips and polyps
1 – Acropora sp., bluish-purple w/ blue polyps
1 – Acropora sp., “Chip’s Acro”
1 – Acropora sp., (stag) blue/purple
1 – Acropora sp, gold/green w/ purple tips and brown polyps
1 – Acropora millipora, green/yellow
1 – Acropora sp., brown w/ yellow polyps
2 – Acropora valida, "tricolor" (cream/purple/green with yellow polyps)
1 – Montipora capricornis, brown/lavender
1 – Montipora capricornis, orange
2 – Montipora digitata, green w/ orange polyps
1 – Montipora digitata, purple
2 – Montipora sp., encrusting, green
1 – Montipora sp., encrusting, purple
1 – Pociloporra sp., pink with green polyps
1 – Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata (possibly Muriceopsis flavida), purple plume gorgonian
2 – Seriatopora hystrix, pink birdsnest
1 – Stylophora pistillata, pink

Other
Cladophora prolifera (macroalgae)

Refugium

Inverts
1 – astrea snail
numerous bristle worms, bivalves, tunicates, and other hitchhikers

Macro Algae
Ulva lactuca
Caulerpa scalpelliformis (possibly C. serrulata)
Padina pavonica
Gracilaria sp.
Scinaia sp.
Halimeda sp.
Chaetomorpha aerea
Dictoyta sp.
Avrainvillea sp.

Equipment

2.5 gallon 8"x8"x9" main tank, and matching refugium, with about 7 lbs LR between them. The main tank has a 4" by 4" external overflow tower which uses a 1" drain and a Hoffer Gurgle Buster standpipe to drain into the 2.5 gallon mini-bow sump The sump holds an additional 3-5 lbs LR, a bag of purigen, an iceprobe chiller, a 100w AGA heater, and a slightly modified Lee's air-driven counter-current skimmer.

Lighting on the main tank is accomplished by a 70 watt MH retrofit (Regent Flood light DIY) powered by a WPI electric ballast; I'm using a 14K Astralux bulb. The refugium is lit by a 27 watt DIY PC retrofit wit ha 6700K Lights of America bulb.

A Mag 5 return pump runs through a 1/2" CPVC horizontal perimeter manifold on the main tank, and a 1/2" CPVC "T" manifold in the back of the refugium. I plan on upgrading to a Mag 7 for the return soon. A Mag 3.5 CLS pump is used for additional circulation, and runs through a SCWD and out 2 1/2" loc-lines each terminating in 1/2" Y fittings.

There's a total of 6 fans on the system (one on the iceprobe, two in the MH canopy, one in the PC refugium canopy, one blowing over the CLS pump, and another blowing over the main return pump). I will soon be adding another fan to blow across the surface of the water in the sump.

The ATO is a 2 gallon reservoir with an aqualifter pump connected to a float switch. I go through 2 gallons top off water every 4 days or so.

And.... There you have it.

Jared

Equipment
Standard UK glass tank (12 x 8 x 8)
DIY glass ‘refugium’ (12 x 4.75 x 8)
Micro-jet 450 pump
50W Hagen Tronic Heaterstat
Fluval 1 plus internal filter (containing carbon and polyfilter)
Lighting: 2 x 18W 50/50 compact T5 tubes (over the main tank) + 1 x 18W Daylight tube (over the refugium)
50mm case fan to keep things cool
Aquadoser set on a timer for freshwater top off

Livestock
Various zoanthid colonies
2 colour morphs of Ricordea florida mushrooms
Ricordea yuma mushroom
Red Discosoma sp. mushroom
Fungia sp.
Blastomussa wellsi
Blastomussa merleti
Bubble coral, Plerogyra sinuosa
Hitchhiker pink tunicates
2 dwarf blue-legged hermit crabs, Clibanarius tricolor
2 Dove snails, Euplica sp.
Stomatella sp. snails
Chaetomorpha sp. algae in the refugium



Best regards

Ann

EQUIPMENT
2.5 mini-bow
2x18watt 50/50 pc lighting
AC50 fuge
25w stealth heater
palm light for fuge

LIVESTOCK
1 greenbar goby
1 peppermint shrimp
3 small astrea snails
2 small hermits

star polyps
various zoanthids
caulastrea
frogspawn
ricordia
var. mushrooms
single "sun coral" polyp
2 polyp clove frag
1 polyp anthelia (sp?) frag
1 sps frag(throw-in from a lfs,forgot name)

Here is Mine:





Equipment:
Black Silicone 2.5g tank (unknown maker)
AGA 50w Heater (made by Hydor)
2x18w Coralife 9" lights
Aquaclear 20

Livestock:
2 Orange Ricordea
5 Green Ricordea
4 Mushrooms (3 blue/purple spoted and the other Green Mottled)
1 Anemone Shrimp ( Periclimenes brevicarpalis )
2 Dwarf Blue Leg hermits (MR and Mrs. Crabs)
1 Green Bubble Coral
1 Frogspawn
Caulerpa (soon to be removed)
4-5 bls of LR
3 Feather Dusters
1 Orange Sea Squirt
Green Star Polyps
4-5 Polyps of Mint Green Zoanthids

P.S. OMG .. lol.. me and Ann have the same toothbrush ...lol

'scuse the dirty glass:





Equiment:

Standard AGA 2.5 gallon
AC20 hob filter
25w AGA heater
2x18w coralife 50/50 compact PCs
2 PC fans

Livestock:

1 porcelain anemone crab
2 mini carpet anemones ( Stichodactyla tapetum if you want to get specific )
1 rock/flower anemone ( Epicystis crucifer)
25 zoanthoid/palythoa morphs in various colors (I'm too lazy to get more specific than that)
1 green open brain
1 bright red blasto polyp (with an itty bitty babie)
1 blue mushroom
1 blue florida ricordia
2 Tongan nass snails
2 black nass snails
1 rather large stomatellid snail
1 orange serpent star
1/2 dozen mini brittle stars
1 gazzillion pods
Pulsing xenia

Equiptment:
The basics:
-2.5gal AGA tank drilled /w custom acrylic overflow
-Tee style overflow scilencer
-5.0gal painters bucket sump
-75W Ebo-Jager glass heater
-Penguin 1440 in-sump return pump
-Dual outlet 1/2"i.d. return manifold
-Tiny off brand powerhead for extra flow
-Maxi-jet 600 pump for skimmer
-Custom built UTR nanoskimmer

Lighting:
-Custom built hood
-3x Coralife 20W 50/50 screw in bulbs
-Dual 1.5" exhaust fans

Livestock:
-Pulsing Xenia
-Orange plate coral
-Bush coral (I forgot the name already!)
-2x Small ricordia mushrooms
-Blue Zoas
-Yellow/green rim Zoas
-Orange Zoas
-Mixed Zoa branch
-Green star polyps
-Green striped mushrooms
-Pipe organ coral
-"Dolphins blue bottlebrush acro"
-majano anenomme (still yet to become a problem)
-6x blue legged hermit crabs
-2x random snails
-4x random starfish (brittle stars I belive)

Here are my two check in photos. I have a 2.5 gallon minibow. Currently I have pink and blue rics/ green star polyps, three different kinds of zoos.

I have two snails and three small blue legged hermits.

Photo 1:


Photo 2:

Heres my entry, a little late.







Equipment

2.5 gallon AGA
Fluval 204 cannister filter
15 watt heater
Current USA 18w PC

Livestock

Variety of Mushrooms and Ricordia
Some type of leather...capnella?
Caulastrea

The tank was originally intended to be strictly mushrooms, but I had the leather and candy cane in there and it looked good so they stayed. The only theme my tank is really shooting for is complete aquaculture. With the exception of the red-legged hermit, the theme has been met. Everything has been aquacultered by me, and many corals in here are 2nd and 3rd generation clones.