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.

p208659969 3 - Chucktown 20H - SPS Dominant

I'll be posting more pictures later today.

-Adam