Mid-Year tank progress! Let's see your growth!

[FlamingGrapes]

Dec 2022

 

[FlamingGrapes]

June 2023

 

[vetteguy53081]

Dec 2022

Looks great !!

 

[Roatan Reef]

 

[Abiodork]

My 13.5g is 4.5 months old. I started with live sand and dry rock and have gone through so many cool phases of microbial advancement. Started with some brown diatoms, moved on to green algae on the glass then rocks, now hardcore into the uglies with long hair algae and cyano that I’m hand-picking and toothbrushing several days each week. Adding in an aiptasia-infested Scoly really upped the biodiversity of the tank (Spirobid worms, aips and no doubt countless others). A couple of Berghia Nudibranchs seems to have resulted in fewer aips. I had and lost a clownfish to probable brooklynella, and a black-capped basslet to something that thickened its slime coat. I currently have a tailspot Blenny that’s getting more adventurous every day and may hopefully ally in the war against the hair algae. I have a bunch of inverts - turbo, margarita, astrea snails, blue-legged hermit grab, a GORGEOUS cleaner shrimp, and a variegated urchin that has helped with the algae a lot. Also a couple of spaghetti worms have taken up shop. For corals I have a lovely green toadstool, a hammer, clove polyps, a mushroom, and some zoas that are really starting to take off. I can’t wait to see what the next several months will hold!

 

[Al.B]

Overall tank looks very good.
is tank receiving light/indirect light from a nearby window?
Do you know your phos level? ChemiPure Blue will keep it in check and remove any low level toxins.
I dont see much for snails but considering adding a mix of snails comprising of: Astrea-cerith-trochus-Turbo grazer and nerites. Even a pin cushion urchin will help

No direct sun, nitrate have been slowly climbing but still only 20, phos steady around 0.7. I have a mix of snails, mostly trochas and about 18. I think my shrimp has been slowly picking them off. I prob need to feed him more but I’m already over feeding the tank a bit.

 

[vetteguy53081]

No direct sun, nitrate have been slowly climbing but still only 20, phos steady around 0.7. I have a mix of snails, mostly trochas and about 18. I think my shrimp has been slowly picking them off. I prob need to feed him more but I’m already over feeding the tank a bit.

Phos .7 or .07?

 

[Retro Heat]

Here's my tank that I started a little more than 8 months ago with bone white dry rock, live sand and a few frags sourced from local reefers. The zoas started out from 1-3 polyp frags. The toadstool was about 1/3 the current size. The frogspawn was 1 splitting head but is now 2 splitting heads with multiple babies on the stock.

My two babies are nice and chubby. The female (with white eyes) is around 3.5 to 4 inches and super healthy. The male is around 2 inches.

And, the newest edition is right at home under the rock next to my feather duster with my tiger pistol shrimp. He is also a little pig that eats frozen brine, mysis and pellets.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

I don't currently have a tank to show, but I'm loving this thread! I'm hoping to get my new build set up soon!

 

[shakacuz]

January 2023, and July 2023

 

[dangles]

No corals yet, but I’d still like to play

My tank is exactly 6 months old. Nine fish, and a bunch of inverts.

6 Month “Flyover”

 

[dangles]

My little tomini tang when I got him April 15th and a two photos from a few hours ago. Little guy has been bulking up.

I love my Tomini! I saw a full grown one in my LFS the other day. Can’t wait!

 

[52728299]

I don't have much of an update except a couple bad things.. I have a monster ambon damsel that I need to get out asap. I didnt even want the fish, was sposed to get a lemon damsel but vendor sent wrong fish and hes been a disaster. Seems he's lead to a couple fish deaths including my cbb and a lyrtail anthias.

I also have cyano which I'm taking the patient approach with with manual removal and clean stable water.

Other than that everything is healthy and doing OK. I have a fish trap coming that I hope works well to get the damsel out. It's by tankmatez and is a hydrolic bubble trap thing idk.. I'll have to do an update at some point on a new 20g system. I really think my 3 fish I'm going to have in the 20g will be very pretty together. Helfrich firefish, Bartlett's anthias and a kupang damsel

 

[zoomonster]

Last minute update. Finally got going this weekend and got some rock rearranged and a bunch of stuff placed. My busy body fish are all over it looking for snacks. Most of my torches done and five hammers in place. At least this 2/3 of tank upper level will be torches/hammers/frogs/bubble. Still have 13 pieces to go and a big 5 head orange/green hammer coming this week. The other 1/3 undecided but have a rack full of misc. to be placed. Ricordia, Yuma and shrooms will stay on/close to bottom and zoas here and there. Kinda ironic those four Aussie hammers are all mounted on that Aussie boulder in the middle lol.

 

[socalreefman]

March

July

Lost my bubble coral in that time rip! I got a brief case of Dino’s so I started dosing phos and nitrate. Only after a couple of weeks of dosing I noticed the color of most corals got a lot more vibrant. Also installed a uv from green killing machine, and have just left it on 24/7

Have the dinos since then backed off, I have a pretty bad case of them and I’m just figuring out what I can do to get rid of them, they are starting to effect my corals

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Here's my tank that I started a little more than 8 months ago with bone white dry rock, live sand and a few frags sourced from local reefers. The zoas started out from 1-3 polyp frags. The toadstool was about 1/3 the current size. The frogspawn was 1 splitting head but is now 2 splitting heads with multiple babies on the stock.

My two babies are nice and chubby. The female (with white eyes) is around 3.5 to 4 inches and super healthy. The male is around 2 inches.

And, the newest edition is right at home under the rock next to my feather duster with my tiger pistol shrimp. He is also a little pig that eats frozen brine, mysis and pellets.

Some great progress in 8 months!

 

[soreefed]

Have the dinos since then backed off, I have a pretty bad case of them and I’m just figuring out what I can do to get rid of them, they are starting to effect my corals

Yeah they have. Got my nutrients up and stabilizing. I had ostreopsis Dino’s so I started running a small UV and it helped immediately. Really only had visible signs of Dino’s for 5 days or so. Although I did turn the uv off and few days later I think I saw some gather on toadstool. Maybe not fully outta the woods yet.

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Got some new goodies a while back. Really loving this leather, planning to add more.

 

[socalreefman]

Yeah they have. Got my nutrients up and stabilizing. I had ostreopsis Dino’s so I started running a small UV and it helped immediately. Really only had visible signs of Dino’s for 5 days or so. Although I did turn the uv off and few days later I think I saw some gather on toadstool. Maybe not fully outta the woods yet.

Nice!!! I’ve been looking at UV for a few days now and I think I’ll get one. Thank you

 

[Pacific North Reef]

Coming along! Doors need to be finished and the stand will be done for the most part, I've since decided I'm going to make a canopy for the top. Currently on day 10 quarantining some hermits in one tank, a foxface and yellow coris wrasse in another. The display tank has been cycled for 3 months with a couple of clowns that I added about 3 weeks ago. Pods showed up last week and have since added them and feeding phyto. Since the rock has been cycled, I've dosed with microbacter7, probidio and Fiji mud. Lights won't come on until Sept.