My 500 gallon reef tank. 650 gallon overall volume.

dmort · Jan 23, 2016

So cool to stumble upon this: when I was first starting to take reefing more seriously I found the first LA fish guys videos and watched them all in an evening (a long evening), beer in hand. Amazing system and dedication.

clekchau · Jan 24, 2016

Very nice and one of my inspirations when I started my tank. I like how you explain things thoroughly and take time to help people.

Cheers!

jboone82590 · Jan 25, 2016

I was wondering do you habe live sand in the display tank? And if not why is that?

revhtree · Jan 25, 2016

Awesome reef and build! Very happy you decided to take the time and share this great reef with us! Now it will be easy to keep updated! HA!

slief · Jan 25, 2016

clekchau said:
Very nice and one of my inspirations when I started my tank. I like how you explain things thoroughly and take time to help people.

Cheers!

jboone82590 said:
I was wondering do you habe live sand in the display tank? And if not why is that?

I have a little bit of sand in the display but it's mostly bare bottom as I prefer the cleaner bottom. I have just enough sand around some of the live rock to keep the wrasses happy.. I have a lot of live sand as well as fiji mud in my under tank refugium as well as some live sand in my display refugium.

jboone82590 · Jan 25, 2016

That's what I thought. Thanks and awesome tank man I love it I'm about to upgrade to a 54 corner tank and wish I could have a bigger one but it will come in time.

Robthorn · Jan 25, 2016

Looking good. You have been doing this as long as I have except I keep selling everything for a year and starting over. I can't wait until my Supermarin shows up. Very ready for a Bubble King.

slief · Jan 25, 2016

Robthorn said:
Looking good. You have been doing this as long as I have except I keep selling everything for a year and starting over. I can't wait until my Supermarin shows up. Very ready for a Bubble King.

You will love that skimmer! I absolutely love mine!

coral tarracino · Jan 25, 2016

WOW' a lot of work on these Fish tanks'

HAPPY' FISH'!

Dekon · Jan 26, 2016

Beautiful tank and a great read too.

Joe Boyd · Jan 26, 2016

extremely cool..... but form what i know about SWA's this is way out of my league financially.... thanks for sharing!!

deerhunter06 · Feb 8, 2016

aweseome job slief

slief · Feb 16, 2016

This is an LA Fish Guys video that was filmed a number of months back on my switch to the Royal Exclusiv RD3 230 pumps. These were just uploaded last week so I figured I would add them to my thread. There are 3 parts.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

slief · Mar 5, 2016

Some updated growth shots. There are previous shots showing the growth from December on the previous page.

This was taken Jan 16th.

These were taken today. It's grown about an inch in that time with several new tips.

Taken Jan 16th

Taken today. The birdsnest in the background has grown like crazy and the coral in the forground has grown well too.

Taken Jan 6th.

Taken today.

Jan 6th

Today.

slief · Mar 5, 2016

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slief · Mar 5, 2016

This one is a bit slower growing due to it's location and living in the shadow of a giant hammer coral.
Jan 6th.

Today.

One of two Moni Caps. These things are growing stupid fast at well over an inch a moth.

Jan 6th

Today.

This is a green Monti cap. I guess I didn't track the growth of this one. It's an an odd place on the back wall of the tank and doesn't get as much light so it's growing much slower but it's starting to grow faster now.

This was taken Dec 12th.

Taken today.

slief · Mar 5, 2016

This picture puts some of the growth into perspective. This was taken exactly 3 months ago.
ago.

This was taken today. There are no new SPS additions in this picture since the above photo was taken. In fact, a couple pieces in the above picture were actually moved and not seen in the one below. This is all growth. You can see how the back wall of the tank is filling out from the growing SPS frags.

One more at a wider angle from that side of the tank.

slief · Mar 14, 2016

Here is a video update that I took today. It's interesting comparing the video I shot in January as you can see how much all the SPS have filled out on the end of the tank.
Best if viewed in HD.