20g reef all-new pics

Hi all, since the other thread is pretty big, I thought I'd start a new post so you wouldn't have to go searching the whole thing for newer pics. Here are some pics as of today. Green/pink hammer and green/pink tipped frogspawn:

Purple tip nana, the pic doesn't show the nice green body:

Neon green star polyps and green encrusting pavona:

Mid tank with neon yellow capnella, cool neon pink/purple zoos, green/purple zoos, and you can see a purple/blue shroom.

Full tank pic. As you can see I moved the orange tonga leather into another tank and put in a nice fiji leather, its not fully extended as you can see since it was just in there yesterday.

looks even better

cam b

Thanks Cam. Hey I saw your tank, real nice. Those red ricordia are something else .

Blue tuxedo urchin:

Pink with purple tips millepora now taking off in growth:

New crocea, thanks NR53:

Ricordia and red zoos:

My crocea through the front glass:

Wow, thats a great tank.

Does the tuxedo urchin cause any trouble? I thought they eat corralline algae, but you have tons of it. How long have you had him?

I have had him for a few months. He eats coraline but by doing so puts flakes into the water which spread around ther spores so the coraline spreads more. The only problem with the urchin I have is that he carries frags around the tank.

What kind of lighting do you have?

1 x 175w 10k ushio and 2 x 28w 03 pc actinics

As good as your tank looks, you're going to be tank of the year, not just tank of the month!!

Thanks for the compliment dickwayne. I try to keep smaller pieces in my tank so that the scale is better instead of having large corals that look crammed in there. Also I am getting a few more sps, but not as many as I had packed in there before. I'm focusing more on zoos and ricordia and mushrooms to fill in the rest of the tank.

I registered so hopefully soon I can get a website up when Chris can activate it.

Nice setup.

Does the urchin bother your SPS (i.e. take nibbles or bites off the coral tissue and skeleton) while it roams the tank at night for food?

I've had my green tip acro for over 2 months and just last week, I noticed one small branch with parts of the skeleton (and tissue) nibbled away. It's not bleaching and it's not RTN. In fact, the remaining polyps still opened during the day and tips were still green.

Fortunately, the branch is now recovering

I suspect that it's the black long spined sea urchin. Or, could it be one of the resident crabs in my tank?

Cal, any thoughts on this? Thanks, Dan.

Hi Dan, the tuxedo never nibbles on anything. I also don't think its your long spined urchin. Try to see if you can find a hitchhiker crab in your tank that is small and brown and furry with blue eyes. I had one come in on one of my acro colonies before thinking he would be benign but he started taking pieces and tips off of my acros. I finally caught him in the night and got rid of him.

WOW!!!!!!!!! Very nice Cal3v!!! Definatly one of my favorite tanks i have seen on nano-reef.com!!

Look forward to the site Cal

Anybody know how to make a site with nano-reef? I couldn't find a tool bar or anything. I have another site in the process of creation but there isn't much space on it. Here it is so far for all wondering. Only the main tank part is working so far and the front page as well.