Hi everyone! I'm fairly new to the club and the frag swap this past weekend was my first meeting. Thanks for the warm welcome. I figured I might as well show everyone my tank (and up my message count so I can get in on some of these contests!). This is my first saltwater tank after having fresh for 7 or 8 years. I still have a 90 gallon planted tank that I'm proud of but after having this little reef tank for about 8 months, I'm totally hooked. Trying to avoid MTS but already feel like I'm running out of room! My end goal is a well-designed display tank with a wide variety of NPS, LPS, and SPS corals, and just a couple special fish and invert friends. I know it's going to get tough to keep the nutrient balance for all that but we'll see how it goes. I probably won't update this toooo much but I have a detailed build thread on nano-reef if anyone is on there.
Here's a somewhat current FTS:
Current fish is a watchman goby. I'm not totally pleased with it (thought it would be yellow for one thing :/) and might try to exchange it for a smaller, more colorful shrimp goby at some point.
I also have a pom pom crab which I adore:
And a couple of my favorite corals at the moment:
And here's a kind of "dream" layout plan I drew:
So far things have been pretty smooth for me, but like I said, I'm a newbie and realize I've got some high aspirations so we'll see how it goes. I'll take all the advice I can get!
Here's a somewhat current FTS:
Current fish is a watchman goby. I'm not totally pleased with it (thought it would be yellow for one thing :/) and might try to exchange it for a smaller, more colorful shrimp goby at some point.
I also have a pom pom crab which I adore:
And a couple of my favorite corals at the moment:
And here's a kind of "dream" layout plan I drew:
So far things have been pretty smooth for me, but like I said, I'm a newbie and realize I've got some high aspirations so we'll see how it goes. I'll take all the advice I can get!
