2.5 gallons of greatness
 

This tank started as my 2012 nano contest tank. I really love this tank so I've kept it going. Here's a link to the contest journal thread if you want to look back and see the beginning's of this set up. It went from a maxi mini anemone tank to a reef tank :biggrin:

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=89848

The light I was using was an ok light but the coral colours didn't pop like they should of so I upgraded to a halo par 38 led light from fragbox and I am very happy with the upgrade. I also changed a few of the corals around, and thanks to the new light the red/brown monti at the top of the tank has now turned into a superman monti :mrgreen:

Before pic with old lights
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps839a32b7.jpg

pic taken right after setting up new light
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...psfaaa1627.jpg

Pic taken today with new lights
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps54d2df9c.jpg

Closer up pic's

top half of tank
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps9032358e.jpg

bottom half of tank
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...psdf13a49f.jpg

Pic of tank and new light
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps3c38d034.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps53e21008.jpg

2.5 really are you sure lol amazing job

I should add that the contents of this 2.5g tank are; a Barnacle blenny, blue spot anemone shrimp, porcelain/anemone crab, pom pom crab, scarlet hermit crab, nassarius snail and a trochus snail. I have mostly zoas, a neon green candy cane coral, superman monti, bleeding apple scoly, 2 fancy mushrooms and a ricordia.

Doug took a bunch of pic's after I got the new light so enjoy

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps47d47bab.jpg
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...psa990b367.jpg
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps0bc9cbd1.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps7b462fa9.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...pscd8509ca.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...psa63952cb.jpg

very nice setup and beautiful zoas!
how far up are you running the par38 ontop of the tank?

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps20bf27be.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps7d9d40b0.jpghttp://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps5456dd4b.jpg
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...pseb2dfb0f.jpg

This shrimp is well fed and while he moves around on the zoas he doesn't hurt/eat/pick at them like the sexy shrimp did
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps0b124003.jpg

I may have posted these last 2 pic's in my old thread but there worth sharing again :mrgreen:

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps611f1d4f.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps9668a7d6.jpg

You are well overstocked and should give away those corals before any harm is done :razz:

And your pico is awesome! :D

Thanks and yes it's only two and a half gallons! :mrgreen: I had some great rock to pick from (took it out of my boyfriend's sump) and was able to create an over hang and a cave (can't really tell with the corals covering the rock) but here's a pic of the rock from when I first set it up
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps187d55ed.jpg

Thanks, I'm running the par38 about 8-10 inches above the tank. I also have a mesh screen/egg create cover over this tank to keep the bleeny in, which with the par38 helps to cut back on some of light as it is a powerful light (no dimmer) for such a small tank.

what are those really red zoas up top under that encrusting thingie? and those are rastas down at the bottom right?

really nice polyp collection in a small tank. concentrated awesome.

I think there's room for all to grow out nicely :wink: and thanks

Do you mean the ones I circled? Under the encrusting superman monti, between the sunny d's and space monsters?

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps06b7671a.jpg

this is a close up Doug got of them when the new light was first put up, as you can see they are brighter now. FYI I love my par38 :mrgreen:
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...pseb2dfb0f.jpg

Those are super awesome red/orange with a purple ring in the centre (I have no idea what they're called but I could come up with a cool name if you'd like) zoas :lol: and yes those are rasta's which are finally looking like rasta's under the better lights.

The rasta's went from this
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps92ff3abd.jpg

to this
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps44164284.jpg

I had actually thought that they weren't rasta's and that a mistake had been made, crazy what a difference a light can make. Although I think they still have some colouring up to do, but they're getting there and they've come a long way in a month.

http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/imag...27bcb415fc.jpg