Bare Bottom reefers, show me your tanks!

[143gadgets]

[iantoh]

that's a very nice tank 143gadgets!!

[iantoh]

Travis, that's truly the loveliest tank i've seen! i love how grown-in and natural it looks. Kudos!!

[tfp]

travis, props out to you for growing out such large colonies! a true testament to patience, perseverance and just mad reefkeeping skills .

here is my humble zero substrate (officially Sept. 07) tank:

[KEEPERZ]

Bout time we get a FTS Tim-looks great man!!

[mgny]

Here's mine

[143gadgets]

Originally posted by iantoh
that's a very nice tank 143gadgets!!

Thanks!

[New_Noob]

Just a small 55

[Wazzel]

Here are a few shots of my 150 from early October at the one year point. All corals are from frags.

[reefsahoy]

do you guys populate the glass bottom with other corals to kinda hide the fact that there's no sand?

[Wazzel]

Originally posted by reefsahoy
do you guys populate the glass bottom with other corals to kinda hide the fact that there's no sand?

I do not. Coraline is really starting to take off on the bottom since the Oct pictures. I do not feel the tank looks bad or unnatural without sand.

[New_Noob]

i try to keep the more aggressive corals on the bottom, so my prized pieces are not in their range, such as my hydnopora, tulip anemones, rock anemones and fast growing GSP. The other corals i keep on the bottom are either stressed, new, or low light such as my plates, lobo, and tubastreas.

[Flybynight]

Really insane tanks guys. Good work. I know that is years in the making. Good Luck.

[trueblackpercula]

some new pictures and some old Enjoy
Michael





Awwwwwwwww before the crash

[ricks]

Our 500 BB...

[TCU Reefer]

Still a young system that needs more work......and corals.

[trueblackpercula]

ricks
that tank is insane wow do you have a tank build thread? That green slimer is huge.
Michael

[ricks]

Yeah it's in large reef tanks under our 500 gallon

[ricks]

The green slimer grew 2"- 4" a month. It was almost 30" when I started fragging it, the left side got more of the fragging. It would have grown to about 4' tall in 5 years, if I hadn't started hacking on it.. Started out as a 1" frag as most of my corals. I thinned the coral out about 4 months ago, took about 40# out. So the reef would grow in more even, and the demands on Cal and Alk were unbelievable...

Rick

[trueblackpercula]

I would love to see some more pictures of your set up.

Michael

[ricks]

more pictures in the large reef forum, under Our 500 Gallon

[trueblackpercula]

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[REEFY1]

If you had a 2 inch sand bed, and wanted to go BB could you???

[reefsahoy]

yes, just remove sand in sections over time.

[erickrm]

WOW! Beuts!!! i dont feel my tank is as worthy but here goes anyways