REEF OF THE MONTH - February 2023: MantisReef's Amazing Peninsula Reef

[reacclimating 2 the hobby]

absolutely amazing

 

[Serg1976]

Beautiful tank, very inspiring

 

[Serg1976]

Beautiful tank , very inspiring

 

[larryl]

Thanks for sharing your reef! Amazing tank keep up the good work.

 

[RUKelly]

You can see the love that went into this tank. WOW.
Congrats on a well-deserved honr!

 

[VikS]

Wow. just amazing. Congratulations!

 

[rtparty]

Fantastic tank!

 

[Cool Fish]

Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Jillianh]

Incredible; inspiring.

 

[cfal44]

Very interested in the regal angelfish, do you have any problems keeping him with your torches?

 

[Nano_Man]

Love the tank

 

[PlainEnvelopes]

Amazing tank

 

[MantisReef]

Very interested in the regal angelfish, do you have any problems keeping him with your torches?

No problem at all, the Regal Angel totally leaves the torches and the other LPS alone.

 

[Jeremy@CoralVue]

Very Nice! I love the assorted collection of corals and fish. Well deserved RTOTM.

 

[BillFish Coral Lover]

Words . . . failing. Tank . . . AMAZING!

 

[Roberto Denadai]

This tank is a true masterpiece, well done my friend, keep inspiring us !! Congrats!

 

[Karliefish]

Brad, truly breathtaking and also highly inspirational for my wife and I as we are in the early days of our 365g mixed reef tank. Question….could you have been successful in the very early days without the sand. Another words, did it help to get the bio-diversity right in your tank by having the sand and then once established no risk in removing and going bare bottom. I’m asking as we are debating removing the sand from our tank and going barebottom (we have the same starboard installed in the bottom of our tank). However, I worry that our tank is to in-mature (only 9 months old) to remove the sand. Any insights would be appreciated.

 

[IndianReefGuy]

Thank you for sharing all of your insight and expertise in such a clear and concise manner! Congratulations on ROTM, but really in my humble opinion it might be the Reef of the Year, if that's a thing...

 

[OmriA]

A+++++ Bravo!

 

[MantisReef]

Thank you everyone for the super kind comments.

Brad, truly breathtaking and also highly inspirational for my wife and I as we are in the early days of our 365g mixed reef tank. Question….could you have been successful in the very early days without the sand. Another words, did it help to get the bio-diversity right in your tank by having the sand and then once established no risk in removing and going bare bottom. I’m asking as we are debating removing the sand from our tank and going barebottom (we have the same starboard installed in the bottom of our tank). However, I worry that our tank is to in-mature (only 9 months old) to remove the sand. Any insights would be appreciated.

You should be fine removing your sand at this point. I don't know how deep your sand bed is, but I would recommend doing it with several small water changes spaced apart, removing 10-20 percent of the sand at a time. Wait a week or 2 and then do it again.