Welcome to my (near) Zero Maintenance Reef!

[VintageReefer]

Just few pictures. Looks like we have a dragon tamer after all!

And coming soon…

 

[VintageReefer]

Evening photo bomb!

Zoa garden hidden behind torch garden

Lobo, shroom, moseleya, favia, scoly, Duncan’s and more

Acanthos doing great

Left side

Center

Floating Sps shelf top left

Banana HG 6 heads

FTS

 

[smitten with ocean life]

love it! so what was your secret hopeful addition the other day???

 

[VintageReefer]

I don’t have it yet but a price has been negotiated and I’ll just say I need to clear a 6” section on my sand bed for it

I stand by my teaser. It will be a dominant attention grabbing item in the tank

It’s going front center right in front of the palythoa grandis colony. Everything else will be shuffled around

 

[Imrahilwjz]

Welcome to R2R. Awesome stuff

 

[VintageReefer]

Rotated the zoa island shelf so they get better lighting and so I can photograph them better

Mixed my cardinal back in

Rainbow plate getting good extension in the new spot but less light, may have to move this again

Blastos are recovering from too much light, the stripe pattern is returning

Rainbow Goni being moody

 

[VintageReefer]

Moved the rainbow plate, color is much better now
Day spectrum

With windex

Birdsnest looking good

Rainbow Goni

Jawbreaker

Full tank shot + some closer full shots

 

[VintageReefer]

Had to do some rearranging to make room for tomorrows arrival, super excited!

Moved some torch and frogspawn and made a floating euphyllia island

I’m not proud of this but gotta do what I gotta do

Free space made front and center

Tomorrows arrival will be a stunner!

 

[Kiwi reefer]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[VintageReefer]

Still opening up but lookin good so far!
24k rainbow acanthophyllia!

Sorry for weird angled display shot, trying to prevent reflections of my patio door blinds! Better pics to come later tonight!

 

[VintageReefer]

Crazy in person!

Tank shots

Prooof I have fish! I caught two on camera

 

[smitten with ocean life]

glad youre happy with it!

 

[revhtree]

Gorgeous corals and congrats on the success so far!

 

[VintageReefer]

Added anthias and suddenly my fish don’t want to hide anymore
2 lyretail anthias, Tomini tang, yellow coris wrasse, purple fire fish, lemon damsel, cardinal fish

 

[VintageReefer]

Photo Bomb!

 

[garmyn]

i just found this thread and it is stunning - everything about it - i think the anthias were a perfect choice and if you're going to do more nps a blotchy would be so cool also. i'm inspired by your low/no maintenence - would you ever consider doing a video? even a quick one would be great; i would love to watch your tank in action. keep up the amazing work.

 

[VintageReefer]

i just found this thread and it is stunning - everything about it - i think the anthias were a perfect choice and if you're going to do more nps a blotchy would be so cool also. i'm inspired by your low/no maintenence - would you ever consider doing a video? even a quick one would be great; i would love to watch your tank in action. keep up the amazing work.

Thank you!

The anthias have completely brought the tank to another level. For whatever reason several of my fish are shy despite no aggression, and going to photograph the tank they always hide. The anthias come right up to the glass for me and have given the other fish a confidence they have been missing, the activity now is night and day difference than it was last week.

I don’t have a YouTube account and don’t have a desire to make one

Fish list:
Cardinal
Male and female Lyretail anthias
Yellow coris wrasse
Purple fire fish
Tomini tang
Lemon damsel

 

[VintageReefer]

Got 6 / 7 fish in one picture!

 

[SaltyЯeeferNC]

Dude, this is what I'm shooting for! Not that laziness is factor I just want to spend more time enjoying my tank vs constant maintenance. Sure there are things that need to be handled like cleaning the glass etc. Zero maintenance has been a goal since day 1.

Only been in the hobby for 3 1/2 years so I have a long way to go but envy those who have been with it 10, 15 or 20 years. Knowledge ya'll share is worth the listen even if modern technology has made things easier. Old school methods are tried and true in my opinion.

Welcome friend!

 

[VintageReefer]

So the gold hammer on the sand has been growing and extending sweepers and stinging the nearby 24k acantho and my blasto mini colony. Had to move things and was able to relocate the hammer to a shelf on the upper right, hopefully in a spot where it won’t cause trouble

Sunglasses picture is for soze reference for the sweepers

New blasto and acans doing well also!

Exosphere mini colony is nearly fully recovered also. This was down to about 5 random polyps in March