My 30 Gallon Reef

[wflash3]

just thought i would share my tank with eveyone and get some opinions!

full tank shot, and yes thats a glass cup holding my dying fire shrimp, i wanted to protect it from those mean crabs and let it RIP

Nice close up shot of my zoo's!

my rainfords goby hanging out by the star polyps.

my clowns hanging out my the Xenia

my poor shrimp earlier today, you can see the black blotches on his back that came out of no where, i think it can be the cause of his death??

hes moving fast but you can see my pygmy angel near my huge feather duster.



Here are the rest of my pics!

not real clear but you can see the small colony of tiny feather dusters that came with the LR

cool close up shot of my gorgonian polyps

my colorful little hermit

and finally my Anthias hiding between my star polyps and ricordia mushroom.


hope you like the pics! would like some comments =]

 

[Lynden]

Nice! Rainford's Gobies seem to be very popular.

I especially like your gorgonian. Hairier than a Gorilla!

 

[sianeds]

Looks good Personally I think it needs a bit more height and some more colourful corals but these things come with time

 

[Miss Wiggle]

very nice, yeah fill it out with corals, but it's all gotta be done slowly so it's inevtible it looks bare for a little bit

 

[wflash3]

yea thanks for the comments, i want to add more coral soon, i just like taking my time, i will post more pictures when i get some more color =p

 

[Mr Miagi]

Neat!

 

[wflash3]

BTW if anyone has any ideas and ways i can add more color let me know.

act as if it was your tank =] what would you do?

 

[sianeds]

I would shop around and only buy the prettiest corals I could find. When I started out I just bought pretty corals. Now I would rather save up and buy a more spectacular coral. I would add sun corals Tubastraea for colour if you don't mind target feeding every other day or so, same goes for candy canes Caulastraea. Non-photo sponges are also great. I have a brilliant red one which is a gorgeous colour and wasn't expensive. You can get some beautiful metallic green Euphyllia and Trachyphillia at low cost and they are fairly easy to come by. If you have enough sand space (and not too many hermits) you could look for a nicely coloured Fungia. You can find some lovely coloured mushrooms Discosoma/Ricordea/Rhodactis in red, blue, green and different patterns and stripes. There are some spectacular colour morphs of Blastomussa in the US but they are a real pain to find in the UK. If you have good lighting you could look at some Acropora or Montipora both of which make an impressive display if you have the knowledge and skills to care for them. The same goes for Gorgonians, they come in some wonderful colours but can be a challenge to maintain.

Hope that helps

Sian

 

[wflash3]

sianeds thanks for that reply! i looked at some stuff you said and really like some stuff, espicially the Tubastraea.
Im going to Big Al's today which is my LFS, i dont know if any of you heard of them. and hopefully they got some good stuff!

thanks again!

 

[sianeds]

Tubastreae are amazing but hard work

Here's my yellow one

this is it eating some chopped octopus

 

[demonmagus]

I love the rock formation, some more on top would look awesome with those tunnels

 

[wflash3]

a small update:

since i was convinced i didint have enough color =p i went to the LFS and got myself an open brain coral =]
I looked for the Tubastreae but sadly didint find it. So with a lack of coral and a lack of patience i got the green open brain coral.
i will post pictures soon!

 

[sianeds]

Good stuff Finding beautiful corals is the best part of this hobby IMO.

 

[rhysiboy]

change the background from black to blue, it will make everything look alot brighter and not so washed out.... hopefully. I absoloutely love your aquascaping though its really kl

 

[wflash3]

ok update finally! I took some pics of my two new additions. They have been in for a while but i finally stopped being lazy and took the pics, here they are:

nice and fat eh?

there is the coral ive been having doubts about, maybe some one can help me identify it now?

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