My First Reef. 40g

[ProfKhaos23]

This is my first Reef and my second fish tank ever. Started researching 5-6 months ago with the help of my brother who has 10+ years of reefing experience. I started the gathering of equipment in November through December. I added salt on 1/13/13 (neat huh) and this last week my brother and sister in law visited from Texas for Reeffest. They helped me pick out my first fish and corals. Please let me know what you think.
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[Cake_Boss]

Re: My First Reef. 40g

Sweet, when you putting water in?

 

[ProfKhaos23]

gluing the overlfow View attachment 12381 refugium and skimmer View attachment 12382 View attachment 12383 View attachment 12384 Super Reef Octopus XP1000SSS in a Eshopps R-200 Refugium
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[ProfKhaos23]

everything is in as of now. im just now getting around to making my build thread.

 

[ProfKhaos23]

refugium light View attachment 12385 plumbing View attachment 12386 herbie method View attachment 12387 silent and blue View attachment 12388

 

[Bajamike]

Welcome! your tank looks great!

 

[Andrew_bram]

My First Reef. 40g

Are those kessils. Maybe you said that already. But I like. And welcome

 

[Dr.DiSilicate]

My First Reef. 40g

That's some great equipment you got. Nice start.

 

[Smiley]

love the kessils!

 

[JNG]

Nice start, those lights are bad a**. I wanted to win some of those at Reefstock.

 

[TexSun]

Re: My First Reef. 40g

Very nice tank!

Where in Texas were your relatives visiting from?

 

[ProfKhaos23]

Are those kessils. Maybe you said that already. But I like. And welcome

yes i have 2 hkeesil 150watt 15000k lights but i only really needed one.

 

[ProfKhaos23]

Very nice tank!

Where in Texas were your relatives visiting from?

thank you and my relatives were visiting from Houston.

 

[ProfKhaos23]

My Brother got me an apex for Christmas. the best purchase for a reef 12/31/12 View attachment 12401 all set up for live rock and live sand 1/11/13 View attachment 12402

 

[ProfKhaos23]

added 2 bags of Tropic Eden reef flakes View attachment 12403 settled View attachment 12404 1/16/13
added 35 pounds of Premium Fiji live rock, 2 pounds of live sand and 1 pound live mud. all from Premium aquatics View attachment 12405 settled View attachment 12406 1/17/13 im getting better at posting can ya tell

 

[ProfKhaos23]

had a bad hair algea problem and got a CUC to help View attachment 12457 after a day View attachment 12458 2/8/13
my first round of corals before my brother re stacked my rock most are from Reeffest View attachment 12456 3/3/13
my first round of gluing zoas. View attachment 12459 3/15/13.

getting to the good pictures.

 

[ProfKhaos23]

i need to get a better picture of my cardinal. hes shy so ill get it when i feed

 

[WatercolorsGuy]

Re: My First Reef. 40g

Your tank is coming along great. Looks like you got a nice collection of zoas/palys too.
Nice to see all the thought you have put into your build and not just jumping in real quick without thinking.
I like GSP too but you will want to keep it isolated to it's own rock/area so it doesn't take over.

 

[ProfKhaos23]

Your tank is coming along great. Looks like you got a nice collection of zoas/palys too.
Nice to see all the thought you have put into your build and not just jumping in real quick without thinking.
I like GSP too but you will want to keep it isolated to it's own rock/area so it doesn't take over.

thank you. i jumped into my freshwater and it frustrated me. so i went with patience on the reef and so far its paying off knock on wood.

 

[ProfKhaos23]

update View attachment 12583 3/9/13
View attachment 12585 3/13/13 2 months from when i put salt in
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