2024 Full Tank Shots (FTS) photos! Show off your reef here!

[Gumbies R Us]

Here's my reef tank. I'm very new to this. I know I need better lighting but I'm also on a budget. It's a 36 gallon tank with live rock and sand, 3 zoa's, 1 goni, 1 duncan, 1 hammer, 2 acans, and a gsp, 3 peppermint shrimp because I did have aptasia and a mocha clownfish that has a personality of a puppy.

Not a bad start! Is that all the rock you want in there, or will you add more?

 

[Rudolph84]

Not a bad start! Is that all the rock you want in there, or will you add more?

I will definitely be adding more.

 

[Northern Flicker]

 

[Swede's Reef]

Somebody on the Polo Reef facebook group asked me if my tank was freshwater...

Sure is the nicest freshwater tank have seen.... It must have been a lot of trouble acclimating all the coral

 

[i cant think]

My 5’ tank is coming along nicely, now starting to focus on the coral and have one big batch of wrasses to enter (6 in total I think).

 

[Gumbies R Us]

How long have you had your tank? It is filled with amazing coral!

 

[Northern Flicker]

How long have you had your tank? It is filled with amazing coral!

5 months for the tank but much of the livestock about 2 years.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

5 months for the tank but much of the livestock about 2 years.

That tank has filled out nicely in 5 months! What was the size of your tank before that one?

 

[Shawnd08]

 

[pearlela]

Disease & risk management. If I put all the corals and inverts in first, I can wait 75-90 days before adding quarantined fish to help mitigate the risk of ich or worse. Also wish to have a regal angel again. I am hoping a small regal added to a tank full of healthy coral will be less likely to nip/consume coral. Of course I realize fish are like employees, you never know exactly what you will deal with until you've worked with them for awhile! I feed this system 125ml of phyto every night and mix reef roids/goniopower/other coral food + ab+ every other night to help mitigate the lack of fish
@Troylee I welcome your input on my plan, I followed your build long ago before you took an extended leave from the hobby

I wonder how your plan of adding regal angel worked. When I replaced my lights and my leather started to green up with polips extensions my blue hippo of 9 years decided to use it as salad bar and nipped all over it.

 

[edsbeaker]

Here is my 4 month old 75 gallon, 3’ X 2’. I need to get an orange filter for photos.

 

[RussiReef]

 

[luis angel]

 

[Reef Puncher]

Here is my 4 month old 75 gallon, 3’ X 2’. I need to get an orange filter for photos.

this looked like mine at 4 month mark. then i got carried away with coral buying lol

 

[Reef Puncher]

Left side mostly LPS. Right side alot more SPS. Love how the left looks, the right is brand new branch rock meant for acros. Gonna be a while before it looks good. Zoas and acros gotta grow out. Tank is 8 months old. Been reading and playing alot with color theory. Moved all my corals around so that opposing colors on the color wheel were next to each other. it made a big difference.

 

[HowardB]

 

[bakbay]

My 450g FTS, Fallow Edition

 

[edsbeaker]

this looked like mine at 4 month mark. then i got carried away with coral buying lol

I’m trying to move slower than my prior tanks, but that’s not going to last for long! It’s getting harder to fight the urge to fill it up!

 

[wishntoboutside]

It's been a minute or two since I have updated my build thread so here are a few full tank views

 

[becca10]

Just revamped the scape