New here! Here's our first reef tank! 65g

[Rennurdoar]

It's been running for about 2 months so far. We have a cinnamon clown fish, six line wrasse, carpenter's flasher wrasse, Royal Gramma, Purple Firefish, Red firefish, banggai Cardinal, 10 very small hermit crabs, 3 emerald crabs, 4 troncus snails and a cleaner shrimp.

I have a Aquaeon 400gph cannister filter going into two hang on filters. A reef octopus 2000 HOB (went to big probably, but at least I can upgrade easily. Lol) we have a corraline uv sterilizer in line with the canister filter. Has about 60-70lbs of liferock.

We also have 2 ai prime 16hds i got for a steal with a Kessil A80 all with stands (plus more misc) for less than a new 16hd!

Tank has been running 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 10ppm Nitrate, 0 phos. Calcium is around 450, ph 8.5, 34.7ppm salinity

We just added our first two corals, a green and purple tip Hammer and a trumpet coral. Both seem to be doing great. We put in oceanmagick photo plankton and have been adding copepods as well.

Also have added a few bottles of coralline algae from algae barn. All tank inhabitants seem to be doing well and loving life. Hopefully it keeps up! I tried to do a lot of research before starting. Here's some pictures!

Also, glad for any advice and criticism, just don't be to hard on us lol!

 

[Peace River]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

 

[Sean Clark]

Welcome to the party.

 

[Kristopher Conlin]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!

Nice job your tank is looking really good so far!

 

[ScubaShane]

Is that the LifeRock Reef Tree? Welcome to the wild world of Reef2Reef.

 

[Rennurdoar]

Yes, yes it would be! I love it,was exactly what I was hoping for, for a 'center piece' . I used a couple of the small cave shapes and arches to make each cave on the sides.

 

[death-by-reef]

welcome, tank looks great!

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[jsker]

I really like your rock work.

 

[Rennurdoar]

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I really like your rock work.

Hey thanks a lot! We really tried to put a lot of thought into how we wanted it to look and flow. We can't wait to get more corals and really start seeing it come alive!

 

[dstockwell]

Welcome to the Reef

 

[shakacuz]

welcome aboard the r2r board!

 

[kevgib67]

Welcome, glad you are here! Looks like your off to a great start!

 

[Reefer Matt]

 

[CoralB]

Welcome!!!!

 

[Big Smelly fish]

 

[exnisstech]

Welcome aboard. Looks like your off to a good start. I like that it's "our" tank and and not "my" tank. It makes it more enjoyable and also getting new purchases approved is easier

 

[G Santana]

Welcome to the Reef

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Welcome to R2R, fast setup. It looks great, looking forward to your build thread

 

[tbrown3589]

It's been running for about 2 months so far. We have a cinnamon clown fish, six line wrasse, carpenter's flasher wrasse, Royal Gramma, Purple Firefish, Red firefish, banggai Cardinal, 10 very small hermit crabs, 3 emerald crabs, 4 troncus snails and a cleaner shrimp.

I have a Aquaeon 400gph cannister filter going into two hang on filters. A reef octopus 2000 HOB (went to big probably, but at least I can upgrade easily. Lol) we have a corraline uv sterilizer in line with the canister filter. Has about 60-70lbs of liferock.

We also have 2 ai prime 16hds i got for a steal with a Kessil A80 all with stands (plus more misc) for less than a new 16hd!

Tank has been running 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 10ppm Nitrate, 0 phos. Calcium is around 450, ph 8.5, 34.7ppm salinity

We just added our first two corals, a green and purple tip Hammer and a trumpet coral. Both seem to be doing great. We put in oceanmagick photo plankton and have been adding copepods as well.

Also have added a few bottles of coralline algae from algae barn. All tank inhabitants seem to be doing well and loving life. Hopefully it keeps up! I tried to do a lot of research before starting. Here's some pictures!

Also, glad for any advice and criticism, just don't be to hard on us lol!

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Welcome to Reef2Reef! Glad you're joining us here. Great looking tank! One suggestion I might offer: that window is going to make the algae fight harder.