Chucktown 20H - SPS Dominant
It may take me a bit to comb back through all of my pictures so hold tight, there will be plenty of pictures to come.
Just to get things kicked off, a little background about myself. I've been reefing now since 2005. Ever since I was waist high to a grasshopper, I have always wanted to keep a saltwater tank. Although my original plan was to setup just a fish only with live rock tank, I joined RC and quickly got sucked into wanting to keep some simple coral as well. Long story short, I setup a 55g and kept a variety of Acans and other LPS, as well as some Z's and P's. I ended up getting vermitid snails that ended up covering every single inch of every rock in my tank. It got so bad in the end, that I was spending on average a couple of hours each week trying to chip them off the rock, back wall, and out from the inside of the skimmer. The hobby really stopped being fun.
I knew I wanted to start fresh so I started thinking about setting up a smaller tank. I settled on a BioCube 29 and kept that for a little over 19 months. Great tank, had a lot of fun learning more about the hobby and really honing my skills with keeping a smaller, more self-contained system. Jumped into SPS but it was mainly a mixed reef. After the first year, I started noticing some Neomeris popping up in a little patch of rock. They were colorful and I was told that they wouldn't spread so I just trimmed the stalks back when needed. Well, needless to say, the people were wrong as I suspected. When I finally took down the 29, once again, every single inch of rock, backwall, and back chambers were covered in little green Neomeris stalks.
Honestly, I was getting ready to toss in the towel at that point and just quit the hobby all together. I decided to stick it out due to a couple of local reefers and my wife asking why in the world I would stop.
That brings us to my current tank. Here are all of the specs -
- Standard AGA 20H
- 100% EcoRox from Bulk Reef Supply (NO NUISANCE PESTS)
- 24" Aquatinics TX5 fixture
- MP20
- Aqua-C Remora HOB Skimmer
Livestock includes:
- 2 False Percs (had since the 55g)
- 1 Purple Firefish
Coral:
- Icefire Echinata
- Bruddah's Original Superman
- Sunset Monti
- Idaho Grape Monti Cap
- Orange Monti Cap
- Green w/blue Polyp Monti Cap
- FNF Red Bug Monti
- Green Slimer
- Green Poccilipora
- Tyree Bonsai
- Tyree Tri-color Acro
- ORA Red Planet
- ORA Cali Tort
- ORA Joe the Coral
- Green Acro Vermiculata
- Green Deepwater Acro
- Couple of Acans
- Green Favia
- Hollywood Stunner Chalice
- Pink Chalice
- Pink Lemonade
And to make sure I don't start off without a pic, here is a recent topdown of the tank.
I'll be posting more pictures later today.
-Adam
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Top downs don't count. :D
