Albertan22's 120g Reef

[lastlight]

With that crop growing on him you're in for some snail-on-snail action soon. Nice rockwork...I'm jealous of all that purple you have no idea!

[Albertan22]

Originally Posted by lastlight

With that crop growing on him you're in for some snail-on-snail action soon. Nice rockwork...I'm jealous of all that purple you have no idea!

Yeah I've been really lucky with the coraline. I managed to find a few rocks with a good crop of it when I was putting my tank together, and it's just taken off and spread to the rest of the rockwork, the snails, powerheads, but not the glass... yet.

[Albertan22]

Well after a mini flood last night I figure it's time for an update. I was trying to disconnect the union above my pump last night and accidentally twisted the entire pipe, which spun the bulkhead of my return line, loosening the nut and creating a massive leak. Fortunately I was able to pump out the overflow quickly with a maxijet and some vinyl tubbing and prevent a major flood, most of the water followed the pipe and went into the sump anyway.

The tank is progressing nicely, but slowly. I'm leaving for a four week vacation next month so I didn't want to go crazy stocking the tank yet. I figure the more simple it is, the better the chance that my tank sitter will be able to handle things.

Current inhabitants include 2 ocellaris clowns, 4 green chromis, a skunk cleaner shrimp, an elusive peppermint shrimp, unknown # of hermit crabs, snails, and hitchhiker crabs. I'd like to add another fish soon, but want to make sure the tank is good and stable before I leave, so not sure if I'll follow through with that. I've been adding corals over the holidays and everything is looking is pretty good except an acropora frag I put in last week.... Enough talk, onto the pictures:

New brain coral in today:


Hammer coral. It's in the process of developing some new heads


Green star polyps:


Zoanthids:


Duncan coral:


This acropora frag has been in the tank for about a week, but the green patch on the coral just appeared today. I'm a bit worried about this guy, is this RTN?


And an FTS to finish it all off:


Thanks for looking.

[Leah]

Tank is looking great And that new brain is so pretty
How are the fish doing?

Leah

[Albertan22]

The fish are doing great The big clown thinks she owns the tank right now and isn't hosting to any particular area. She chases the chromis around a bit every once in awhile. I suspect she'll have a bit of a shock when I eventually start introducing some more territorial tankmates

[Albertan22]

I finally figured out how to set the white balance on my camera properly so I thought I'd post some more pics. Since I updated not to long ago, I'll just post some of the more colourful additions this round

FTS


Brain


Zoas

[Albertan22]

Managed to get some pics of the fish.







Thanks for looking.