450 Gallons, My Peninsula build.

[Sleeping Giant]

beautiful tank

 

[strich]

What a whirlwind ride to read through 7 years like this haha. Nice work and keen to see it continue to evolve, thanks for sharing.

 

[wishntoboutside]

Thank you. I am very happy to be about half way through this. I think I will be starting 2021 updates tonight. I feel like I am getting close to a great ending. lol

 

[wishntoboutside]

So when the aquarium looks good one just takes pictures. If it is not doing good one does not. So as the aquarium keeps getting better I take more pictures. I look at these pictures now and see how much has changed and I am not sure if I should derail things and start showing pictures now. We will just see how it goes. I could also do a thread alone on aquarium fish stores thru many states.
so the was around late 2020
note tope greenish orange coral to this day I have no idea what named coral it is just a slow grow and a beautiful one. The second picture shows Redplant. Law Office Aquarium Purple tipped staghorn The top pinkish red was an unknown that I did lose that was one of my favorite corals I ever came across due to its color and texture.

 

[wishntoboutside]

Some times you put in corals to see how they do or tester corals. I always tried to warn myself that all monti's should either go on there own rock or just put in last as they are aggressive. I do love monti's so do not get me wrong they have great color and just suck up a lot of elements. All of them just come weeds. Some are more beautiful than others but this one I have always loved the color but regret ever putting in in my aquarium.
I was smart and mounted the hurricane chalice on a small rock.

 

[lubeck]

Love this build!

 

[wishntoboutside]

You next start farming the faster growing corals to buy other corals or have beer money. -)

One of my favorite old school corals. Hawkins Ecinata.

 

[wishntoboutside]

living in So Cali sometimes one has to stop and take a deep breath and enjoy the sunset from time to time.

 

[wishntoboutside]

Here is a cool shot of my ladies favorite fish she calls blue lips. =) The aquarium is now looking more and more like a reef.

 

[wishntoboutside]

We are now in January of 2021. Just giving time frames of things filling in.

 

[wishntoboutside]

Here is a shot of one of my favorite corals I am still growing. It has seen hell and came back. such a slow grower for me. Event Horizon Millie if I reall. Garth Bonzi on the left.

 

[wishntoboutside]

a few unknot corals. wow my rock was looking horrible at this point. lol. Purple Nana in the bottom.

 

[wishntoboutside]

A great thing about having a large tank is some of the dimensions. My aquarium is 6 feet deep and 4 feet wide. It is really misleading at time as it looks like a giant cube.

 

[wishntoboutside]

Love this build!

Thank you.

I am having some fun going thru these pictures.

 

[wishntoboutside]

I am going to end the evening of posting with a bunch of coral frags added at this time and of others filling in. Yes I am kind of an acropora guy.

 

[wishntoboutside]

One of the baby torches growing out. =)

 

[wishntoboutside]

When I got my aquarium going and stocked it up with some fish. It was around a Reefapoolza show in so cal I was able to get some great fish from ORA for one of the both I assisted setting up. At the end of the show many of these went back into the aquarium. Here are some shots of my favorite fish.

 

[wishntoboutside]

We are now rolling along into late July 2021. Things are growing slowly filling in. At this point I was tuning parameter more and more. As I go thru these pictures I remember how much I loved T5 lighting but those damm topdown shots were always impossible fore me. I will honestly say doing this thread is making me want to take out the real camera with the marco lens.
I always enjoy nice top down shots this was an attempt play around back then.