40 Gallon SPS Reef

[Emoezekielsr5]

I started this reef project early september. I downgraded from a 100 gallon cube.

My old 100gal. Cube





Anyways, I broke down the cube and sold most of the livestock, except for some SPS pieces.

In the beggining, I played with the idea of a mixed reef but my love for SPS got the best of me.

Earlier Tank Pic


Before I start with the current tank pics. Let's get into details about my system.

Tank:
40Gallon Regular
30-40lbs of Various LR (Fiji, vanatu and Tonga)
Circulation:
Maxi-jet 600 on a Hydor Flotor
Seio 1100 and Seio 820
Filtration:
Coralife Super Skimmer 65 (love this thing)
Other Misc Equipment:
300Watt Titanium heater
ATO System on a 5 gallon Tank, with daily drip of kalkwasser

Livestock:
Pure SPS, varieties of Acroporas and Montiporas
Fishes:
Way too many!
Maintenance:
Twice a week water change of NSW (Scripps)
Daily top off of RO/DI water and Kalkwasser drip at night.
Daily Supplementation of Tropic Marin Calcium

Anyways, enough chit chat, here are the current pics.

[Emoezekielsr5]

[GSMguy]

wa wa we wa very nice i like

[BiggySmalls]

1 purple firefish
2chromis
3clowns
i dont know what other fish are in there
any more fish?

[BiggySmalls]

nice tank

[Emoezekielsr5]

Fish....I'm getting flamed for this.
10 Treadfin Cardinal
2 Yellow Green Chromis
3 Oceallaris
1 Purple psuedochromis
1 Purple Firefish
1 Flametail Blenny

[drummereef]

Awesome tank.

[DaBenzsta08]

very impressive sps collection i could imagine the 3 clowns being difficult to have them not fight?

[BLKTANG]

what made u go from BB to sand???



Very nice either way,just curious.Im still debating on weather to have BB,or SSB.

[GSMguy]

i bet it was the look of the sand natural is nice

[Emoezekielsr5]

I switch to sand because of many reasons, PH buffering, asthetic look, my Pistol Shrimp Goby Pair and the tank looks brighter with the white sand.

[Emoezekielsr5]

The clowns have actually started a Harem. I originally bought the two clowns that are the same size (assumed both males) and I recently purchased a smaller one and ever since then, they have gotten a long, never seen them fight.

Originally posted by DaBenzsta08
very impressive sps collection i could imagine the 3 clowns being difficult to have them not fight?

[Emoezekielsr5]

Here is a picture of my cardinals, I love watching them school back and fourth from one end of the tank to the other. Also, they seem to spawn a lot, I've seen a couple of them with mouth fulls of what I assume are babies....too bad the babies become fish and coral food...

[gemini aquarius(t)]

wow this tank is amazing did you just get those threadfins from that guy on sdreefs? i wanted them bad but decided against it they look awsome! any tips for a sps newbie

[Emoezekielsr5]

cool, another Sdreefs reader. Oh and yes, I got these from a guy breaking down his tank in sdreefs. What size tank do you have?

Originally posted by gemini aquarius(t)
wow this tank is amazing did you just get those threadfins from that guy on sdreefs? i wanted them bad but decided against it they look awsome! any tips for a sps newbie

[gemini aquarius(t)]

i hava a 29 and a 10 but im trying to sell the ten and my name on sdreefs is gemini

[Emoezekielsr5]

Just in case anyone is curious of my SPS collection.

Acropora:
Chips Acro
Tri-Color Vallida
Neon Green with Purple Tip Efflorensis
Oregon Tort
Ora Tort
Tri-Color Crayola Table
Blue Tip Stag
Yellow Acro with Blue Polyp (can't remember name)
Teal Blue Tenius
Purple/Blue Tenius

Montipora:
ORA Neon Green Digitata
ORA German Blue Polyp Digitata
ORA Red Montipora Cap
ORA Hystrix
ORA Pink and Purple Darmicronis
ORA Neon Green Pocilopora
Montipora Peltiformis (Cream with Blue Polyps)
Sunset Montipora
Superman Danae
Yellow with Neon Green Encrusting Montipora
Idaho Grape
Green Cap With Purple Rim
ORA Pink Millipora

[InvaderJim]

Wow...that tank is beautiful. I love the picture with the caps and clowns (12th pic).

[gemini aquarius(t)]

wow quite thecolection right there let me know when you frag some of the easier stuff like monti caps and digi


please

[Emoezekielsr5]

Thanks for the compliments. Here is a quick reef video. Click on the Picture to see.

[gemini aquarius(t)]

wow thats a cool video!

[todd rose]

nice tank

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

awesome...

[Gundo5000]

Very nice!

[danfrith]

What kind of lighting do you have?