I really love your tank!

Thanks kismetsh!

Update:

I am going to experiment with a few "coral enhancement" products and see what effect they have on coral growth and the overall health of the tank. To date I have not been feeding the tank anything except occasionally adding a few ml of Seachem Reefplus.

Products:
-Kent Marine Coral-Accel
-Two Little Fish's Marine Snow
-Red Sea Coral Grow
-Warner Research Reef Pure Vitamin/HUFA Supplement

Basically I see things here kind of the same with regards to feeding fish. The more variety the better. Mix it up.

I'll let everyone know how it goes. I am especially interested to see how "coral gro" and "coral accel" perform.

get a pair of green banded gobies like in c est ma's tank

I've actually never seen those on the wholesalers list at the fist store. I'd like to see one in person.

the green banded are cool and quite reasonable my LFS has them for $7.99. by the way man would be willing to hook you up with a frag of my yellow tip torch, or maybe we could make a little trade... anyway beautiful nonetheless

Looking good!

Thanks

Quick crappy FTS for the march FTS.

Edit: See New FTS BELOW (posted 11:49 Mountain Time).

I'll post a better one for the finally. A few of the corals are ticked because I cleaned the front of the glass. I'll post another one tomorrow with them happy again.

Even from this pic you can see I have had a sudden explosion of coraline algae growth. I added like 2 doses of B ionic and this seems to be the effect on my system.

2 major observations so far with feeding marine snow, coral accell, and red sea coral growth. Corals look a little happier (fuller) and the green algae film on the glass was a little thicker this week. Understandable though.

I need to get in here and frag stuff bad. Things are touching that shouldn't be. ha ha.

Also, my pulsing xenia is a little shrunk and off to the side. It decided to jump into the galaxia coral and lets just say the galaxia gave it a good butt whoopin. Didn't kill it though, seems to be recovering. Off to the side now because it is just to big to be up top where it was. I need to frag it too.

New FTS with less than 10 minutes remaining!







Barnacle still alive!!

End of Contest Summary

It has been 6 months already? Wow.

The original idea behind this tank was to have a very simple and easy to maintain nano reef. I really had no idea how this tank would turn out, but I am left in aw everyday by the beauty and health of the organisms with in given such a simple system. This tank has been a great learning experience for me, confirming that you really can do a lot with little, and I hope has been a great inspiration and tool for others wanting the same simplicity out of their nano reefing experiences.

Review of Setup

Tank
-All Glass 10g (20x10x12)

Lighting
-20" 1x40w Current USA Satellite PC w/ legs

Filtration & Circulation
-12 lb Premium Aquatics Nano Rock (Marshall Island, Kaelini, Tonga)
-1 lb Premium Aquatics Rock Pool Crud
-20 lb Caribsea Arag-Alive Bahamas Oolite
-Marineland Penguin 200B Power Filter (200gph)
-Whisper 30 Power Filter (145gph) + Rowa Carbon (just turned on occasionally when debris in water column)
-Maxijet 600 Powerhead (160gph)

Temperature Control
-50w All Glass (Hydor) Heater

Water
-Tap water treated w/ AP Stress Coat
-Reef Crystals

Livestock

Fish
-None. I don't know if I will add any or not. Not for a while at least.

Coral
-5 Varieties of Mushrooms (neon red, fuzzy green, purple w/ neon green dots)
-4 Varieties of Green Star Polyp (mega green [from SIX], medium green, and fuzzy green)
-Pink Star Polyp [from Six]
-Pink Encrusting Gorgonian [from Six]
-Neon Green Tip Galaxia [from Six]
-Wammin' Watermelon Zoas [from Six]
-Super Orange w/ Dark Center Zoas [from Six]
-Super Orange w/ light centers Zoas [from Six]
-Lime Green Zoas
-Purple People Eater Palythoa [from mvite]
-Lunar Eclipse Palythoa [from mvite]
-Green Stardust People Eater Palythoa [from mvite]
-Mint Palythoa [from mvite]
-Blue Zoanthus [from mvite]
-Anthelia
-Pulsing Xenia
-Blue Ricordias
-4 varieties of Blastomussa (mint green, purple/green, green?, neon red)
-2 heads Frogspawn w/ live barnacle
-Flower Leather
-Pink Hairy Finger Leather
-White/Pink Bubble Coral

Inverts
-2 Astrea Snails (Tiger Stripe, Regular)
-More to be added as needed

FTS Progress

Entry Photo



October



November



December



January



February



March



b]Rescued Corals Progress[/b]

I was able to rescue many corals with great success. 4 different colonies of blastomussa, and a frogspawn. All made great recoveries and look awesome.







[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00104.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_0131.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00361.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/rescued_blasto_3.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00012.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/rescued_blasto_4.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00093.JPG[/img]



Frogspawn (Barnacle survived and is still alive to date!)

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/rescued_frogspawns.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00052.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_01222.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_0030.JPG[/img]



Deaths
-Two Percular Clownfish (brooklynella)
-Neon Green Torch
-Hairy Finger Leather

Coral Growth

Pink Star Polyp

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/pspvariety1.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/DSC_0119.JPG[/img]

Green Star Polyp (1)
[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/gspvariety2.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/GSP_New_Growth.JPG[/img]

Green Star Polyp (2)

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/GSP2_New_Growth.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00161.JPG[/img]

Lunar Eclipse Palythoa

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/mvite_s_lunar_eclipse_palys.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/DSC_0135.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/DSC_00017.JPG[/img]



Blue Palythoa

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/mvite_blues.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/blues3.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/new_blue_polyps.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_0117.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/DSC_00033.JPG[/img]

PPE

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/PPE.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/PPE_New_Polyp2.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/PPE_New_Polyp.JPG[/img]
Pulsing Xenia

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/pulsingxenia.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00016.JPG[/img]



Orange Zoas

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/orange21.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/New_Orange2_Growth.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/DSC_00251.JPG[/img]

Blue Ricordia

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/blue_ricordias.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00112.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00321.JPG[/img]

Galaxia

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_0026.JPG[/img]

Bubble Coral

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00121.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.nano-reef.com//gallery/data/500/medium/DSC_00132.JPG[/img]


Thanks to everyone who left compliments and/or provided advice/suggestions along the way. This contest was a lot of fun.


Plans for after the constest:

Out of all the tanks I have had so far this is by far my favorite, so OF COUSE I plan on keeping it!! I will be replacing the heater (suction cups are toast, wont stick to glass), possibly upgrading the lighting, and going to do some re-aquascaping and major trimming so I can finally start adding corals again.

wow, great finish. let me know if you need to unload some corals cheap

Awesome!

green you are a true inspiration.

looking great lgreen!