24 Gallon Reef Competition! Poll now open. VOTE!

[Ocho Cinco]

Well this is the moment you've all been waiting for. The picture thread!!! Everyone one who committed to entering the contest may now post their pictures. Also if there is anyone else who wants in and didn't say so before go ahead and post your pics. The rules are 1 FTS and 3 "other pictures". Once the pics are posted they cannot be changed!! Once I get everyone's pictures posted the poll will open (not sure for how long). There are 3 categories, 0-1 year old, 1-2 years old, and 2+. Please include as much info as you want. You MUST post the agw of the tank over the first pic. Follow my picture post below as an example. Oh yeah, voters, please don't judge the tanks on the persons photo taking ability. Also if someone would like to doante a prize or 3 for the winners that would be COOL! Also, you may only vote ONCE and can vote for your own tank. Well here we go and good luck to all!

[Ocho Cinco]

Ocho Cinco's 24 Gallon Aquapod- 1 year 3 Months old

 

FTS

 

Brain, Plate, frogspawn and others

 

Whammin' Watermelons, Blue Zoas, and others

 

Blue Lincka Starfish

 

Tank: 24 Gallon Aquapod

 

Lighting: 70 Watt Halide 6 whit and 6 blue lunar lights

 

Filtration: Stock with LR rubble and Oceanic Skimmer

 

Flow: 310 GPH Via Aqua and Koralia 1

 

Livestock: 2 Ocellerias (Spelling?) clownfish, 1 Banggi Cradinal, Cleaner Wrasse, Cleaner Shrimp, CUC, Blue Starfish,

-5 Rics

-Frogspawn

-1 Mushroom

-4 Zoa frags (not sure of the names)

-Red people eaters

-Whammin' Watermelons

-Blue Zoas

-Millepora

-Pocillopora

-Staghorn frag

-Fungia Plate

-Wellso Open Brain

-Green Eye Xenia

-Green Star Polyps

-Velvet Mushroom (?)

-Small Monti Frag

-Caulestria

-Lobo

-Bubble Frag

 

VOTE FOR ME!!!

[smurfman1040]

This My little mixed reef. Just upgraded to 250 sunpod from stock lighting. So my softies and lps are not very happy now. Been running just over three months

 

Tank: 24 AP

 

Lighting: 250w sunpod 14k

 

Flow: MJ 1200 (return), Two Hydor Karolia 1's and 1 Hydor Karolia nano.

 

Rock: 25lbs figi LR, 8lbs of LRR

 

Fish:

2 ealse clowns

goldenheaded sleeper goby

pepermint shrimp

coral banded shrimp

tiny six lined wrasse

 

Corals:

purple polyp pink birdsnest

blue staghorn

green birdsnest

bali green slimer

some kind of millipora

GSP

Orange Rics

safe cracker red zoas

eagle eye zoas

green and orange button polyps

pulsing xenia

kenya tree

green finger leather

 

Front

 

Top

 

 

Upward Angle

 

Purple Polyp Pink Birdsnest

 

Let me know what you think.

[smurfman1040]

this is off to a good start. lol

[smurfman1040]

ocho did u see the pic of the blue stag in my tank thread. mine is a very intense bluish purple. that the camera doesnt do it justice

[Nick's Reef]

Nick's 24 gallon Aquapod

 

This tank was started on 8-11-07

 

Equipment

24 Gallon Current Usa Aquapod w/factory powercompacts & return pump

 

Korilia 1

 

Coralife Digital Thermometer

 

Filtration

Bag of Purigen

 

Bag of Chemi-Pure Elite

 

Filterfloss

 

1x of the Stock Sponges (Shelf for chemical media)

 

20+lbs. Live Rock From various locations (Fiji, Carribean Cultured, Tonga)

 

20lbs. Carib-Sea West Carribean Reef Live Sand

 

Livestock

 

Fish:

Pair of Stronogobiops yasha (Yasha Goby)

 

Pair of Amphiprion ocellaris (False Percula Clownfish)

 

Supermale Cirrhilabrus lubbocki (Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse)

 

Inverts:

3x Paguristes cadenati (Scarlet Reef Hermit)

 

8x Nassarius sp (Nassarius Snail)

 

5x Astraea tecta (Astraea Snail)

 

1x Lysmata amboinensis (Skunk Cleaner Shrimp)

 

1x Alpheus randalli (Randall's Pistol Shrimp)

 

1x Petrolisthes armatus (Green Porcelain Crab)

 

2x Porcellana sayana (Spotted Porcelain Crab)

 

1x Lysmata wurdemanni (Peppermint Shrimp)

 

Corals:

 

Lps-

Caulastrea curvata (Trumpet Coral)

 

Euphyllia ancora (Hammer Coral)

 

Duncanopsammia axifuga (Green Duncan)

 

Varous Aussie Acanthastrea lordhowensis

 

Polyps-

Various Zoanthus sp.

 

Various Palythoa sp.

 

Mushrooms/Ricordea-

Various Ricordea florida

 

Purple & Green Ricordea yuma

 

Misc. Softies-

Cespitularia sp. (African Blue Xenia)

 

 

 

Full Tank Shot

 

Yasha Hashes

 

Ricordea Yuma

 

Aussies!!!

[Matty1124]

all these look great guys... but why didnt you start this in the special events forum? anyway for those of us that missed the start of the competion what is it all about? growth over a certian period?

[noobofreefs]

Nope just your 24 gallon reef. It will be split into categories for voting by age (0-1 years 1-3 and so on, right ocho?)

[proraptor2]

I think there should be two main categorys.....

 

1. stock class - stock lighting - filter mods ok, no skimmers

 

2. Open class - anything goes - halides, sumps, etc etc

[proraptor2]

I don't know. Dosen't age usually have more effect on a tank then what is running in it? I just want to get more entres now.

 

A stock tank vs an open tank is the way to do these competitions....Thats how every website (even this one) does them.

 

Of course if you have halides you are going to be able to keep nice SPS and other corals that a stock tank with powercompacts wont be able to keep

[proraptor2]

Isnt that something that should be decided before the pics are posted? LOL

[proraptor2]

There is a huge difference between a stock tank and an open tank....An open tank will allow the owner to keep almost all corals while a stock tank is mostly limited to zoas, softies, LPS

[davidr2340]

Ok here is my very humble entry...

 

Nano Cube 24DX, no skimmer, stock lighting, ugraded return pump to a MJ1200, and added a Koralia Nano...

 

Tank is about four months old...

 

One of my favorite additions, just hard to get a damn photo of him!!!

 

 

 

Thanks for the great contest! The tanks entered so far, are very NICE!!!

 

Edit... Changed FTS!

[Sexy Shrimp]

Leanne's 24 D-D (and thats not my breast size...)

 

It's been going since 25th Jan - so just over 2 months

 

Tank

 

24 gal D-D

approx 23x turnover - stock pump replace, 2 more powerheads added in the rockwork and 1 behind the rockwork

 

Filtration

 

Chamber 1 - (bottom up) think layer of sponge to allow easy removal of

- live rock rubble

- Filterfloss (changed weekly)

- This layer of sponge to hold floss down

 

Chamber 2 - Mini shimmer

 

Chamber 3 - Heater

- Bag of Phosphex Ultra

- Bag of carbon

 

16kg/38lb live rock (Fiji and Tonga)

5kg/12lb live sand

"Gunk" from the bottom of 2 LFS refugiums (to seed)

 

Livestock

 

Fish:

 

Pair of Amphiprion ocellaris

Neon goby

 

Inverts:

 

3x common hermits

6x Nassarius snail

6x Astraea snails

1x Somatella snail

1x Cleaner Shrimp

1x Pom-pom Crab

 

Corals

 

LPS

 

Hammer Coral - Euphyllia ancora

Green Plate coral

SPS - (Hitchickers)

 

Green porites

Pink porites (looks like but might not be - too small to tell)

Purple porites (looks like but might not be - too small to tell)

 

Softies

 

Zoanthus

Palythoa

Mushrooms

Pulsing Xenia

Leather (pink/tan)

 

Front Tank Shot

 

 

Clowns now hosting this rather brilliant Nimble Nano (grrrr liked it more when they hosted the hammer!). Note the Xenia spreading like, well, xenia. Anyone want any?

 

 

Hermit shedding

 

 

My rude hammer shot...

 

[Sexy Shrimp]

I think thats a good idea. Feedback at this point is good but before the poll deleting the waffle would keep all the pics together...

[TheCuban1040]

 

 

 

 

 

Tank is 9 months old

 

AP24 with 150W Sunpod (Phoenix 14K bulb)

Running nothing but filter floss in the back.

[Tanque Verde]

Cuban, those pix are outrageous!

 

What sort of equipment are you using? Tell me how to get shots like that, especially in the third shot, which appears to have been taken under the blue leds.

[hoganrj]

Cuban,

All I can say is Awesome!!

[hoganrj]

OK Here is my entry. My tank is now 3 months old!!!

 

Tank:

AP24PC

Stock PC lighting

Stock Return Pump

Korillia 1

Filter Floss/Eggcrate fliter mod.

In tank Fuge w/ Macro Alge

 

Fish:

1 x O. Clown

1 x Yellow Watchman Goby

1 x green feather duster

 

CUC:

1 x Skunk Cleaner

6 x Nassarius

2 x Turbo

2 x Scarlett Reef Hermits

1 x Blue Legged Hermit

4 x Dwarf Zebra Hermits

 

Corals:

Duncan

Blue Muschrooms

Yellow Fungia

Toadstool Leather

Green Star Polyps

Lord of the Rings Polyps

Whammin Watermellon Zoas

Pulsing xenia

20 Headed Candy Cane

Purple Tipped Hammer

Radioactive Dragion Eye Zoas

Misc. Orange and green zoas

Fire and ice zoas.

Kenya Tree coral.

Red stripped mushrooms

[bodiam]

24 gallon Nanocube, started 9/4/2006

 

2 O. Clowns

2 Yellowtail Damsels

1 Spotted Cardinalfish

1 Yellow Jawfish

5 Hermit crabs

10 Nassiurus Snails

1 Skunk Cleaner

Assorted Corals

 

 

[hudson2212]

First off, I apologize for the quality of the photos, I have a very low-end camera. Maybe someday I can have a nice rig like others around here. Secondly, I also apologize for the GHA. Seems I had a couple of snails die due to a faulty heater, leaving the CUC down some members, and some extra organics in the water.

 

So the tank:

 

24G NanoCube

Set up for 5 months now

150w Sunpod MH

Two Maxijet 1200 pumps going to either side of the tank (one chamber two, one chamber three)

Soapdish chaeto holder (hopefully I can build a better 'fuge in the next month or two)

 

Corals are all Zoas and Palys.

 

Two fish, Randall's Goby & Klauswitz Blenny

The Randall's is paired with a Tiger Pistol shrimp, but I oculd not get a clear shot of the two of them.

Decorator crab, three porcelain crabs, and a handful of CUC

 

FTS

 

 

 

Zoanthid #1

 

 

 

Zoanthid #2

 

 

 

Klauswitz

 

[hoganrj]

When is the voting going to start? The 12G contest is kicking our butts

[hoganrj]

I wasn't blaming you, just wanted to see if there was a deadline and maybe motivate some people to join in the fun!

[cfeist]

 

Oh man... that is one sweet tank. Are those Armor of God palys? God those look sweet! One day I will get those... one day...

 

24 gallon Nanocube, started 9/4/2006

1 Yellow Jawfish

 

 

Nice tank! How is your jawfish doing? I have been wanting a jawfish since before I even had a reef tank. How is he doing in there with the other inhabitants? Does he seem comfortable? And do you have an open top and have to worry about him jumping? Thats my main concern, because I am keeping an open top.

[bodiam]

Oh man... that is one sweet tank. Are those Armor of God palys? God those look sweet! One day I will get those... one day...

 

 

 

 

Nice tank! How is your jawfish doing? I have been wanting a jawfish since before I even had a reef tank. How is he doing in there with the other inhabitants? Does he seem comfortable? And do you have an open top and have to worry about him jumping? Thats my main concern, because I am keeping an open top.

 

 

Jawfish is great. He's a nice little guy and moves around making new caves every once in a while. I've had him about three months. This is a 24g JBJ with the canopy. Even if it was open top I wouldn't worry about him jumping because he pretty much stays at the bottom of the tank. He might venture up a few inches when I feed them but otherwise he just hangs around peeking out of his cave.