What is the success to a reef you love and enjoy?

[i cant think]

Here’s one thing I think everyone wonders at some point and there’s one thing I keep finding that makes me enjoy my reefs after a crash or if I get bored of it.

I always find I love and enjoy a reef that has a purpose. So I love my 5’ tank but I also share it with everyone and I’ve found that it’s purpose is to show people unusual wrasses that may not be expensive but just aren’t common.
I mean, how many people have seen a female Kuiteri Leopard or Kaleidos Pencil?

And my nano has a purpose to grow clams in a way I can appreciate them from top down and also grow LPS that I may not be able to in my 5’ tank. I love the Gonis I have growing and my clams are thriving!

So, here’s my question to you guys,
What have you found makes you come to enjoy and love your tank?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Our BTA is doing well! It always makes me happy to go downstairs after the lights turn on and see our BTA out and about enjoying life.

 

[Reefer Matt]

I have different tanks that each have different types of livestock. This let’s me maximize my reefing enjoyment and not be constrained to one tank. They are a mixed reef, sps reef, fowlr, sps frag, and mixed frag. I enjoy something different in each of them. Lately, I’ve been just collecting coral because I like them all. I even talk to them sometimes, lol!

 

[lil sumpin]

The thing I’m trying to achieve, as well as what makes the whole shtick enjoyable for me, is getting my little nano to the point of being on auto pilot. I know you can’t exactly rush tank maturity and even more so with a mostly dry rock start like mine but the last couple months have shown me some success. So I guess seeing that progress for myself is what I find most enjoyable

 

[jkcoral]

Seeing fish that are well-fed, fat, and happy. Even better when you view from a distance and observe them all hanging out, swimming around together in little groups.

 

[Troylee]

The challenge of keeping 80 different acros happy lol