40GallonReef

So I have been out of the hobby for about 6 or 7 years and actually have moved away from the PNW to Texas. I at one time had 3 Reef tanks at once. One 40 gallon breeder mixed reef, a 4 gallon mixed reef at the front of the Office where I worked, and a 24 gallon custom Mixed Reef on my desk at work.

Below is a picture of my 4 Gallon AIO Reef that was actually the most stable tank I had. I ran this with nothing more than Live Rock, Filter Floss and Activated Carbon. 

I recently was gifted a Top Fin 5 Gallon AIO and decided to pull the trigger on setting up another tank. 

I added an extra return pump to help with not only flow but I also didn't think the stock pump was flowing enough for filtration. 

I went with Fluval Nano Sea (I believe is the name). I am planning on going with mostly softies (Pulsing Xenia, Zoas, Mushrooms, etc.) and LPS (Frog Spawn, Hammer Coral, Torch, etc. I should have done more reading before purchasing this light and may be upgrading to the AI SOl or Prime 16. 

I plan on adding the Hygger Mini Wave maker here soon for flow. I used to have an MP10 and loved it but am trying to do this tank on more of a budget. 

The tank has only been up for 3 days now with about 5 lbs. of life rock, Live Sand, Filter Floss, Activated Carbon, and a single Beautiful Clown Fish.  I am dosing the AquaVitro "Seed" bacteria to assist with the cycling process. 

I learned MOST of what I know about the Reefing hobby and knowledge of tank health/care from this Forum and wanted to get back on here even though I have moved away from the PNW. 

Please comment if you have any suggestions, Concerns, etc. 

I took 2 pictures of the tank, once with the blue lights turned down because of the sensitivity of blue light on Cell Phone cameras.
 

Sounds good, I will go with that layout as well. One question, have we figured out the payment method yet?

I'm in. Always up to learn more about this hobby.

Looks awesome. I have a 40 breeder as well and am ordering a unit right now through the group buy on here.

Question, how high off of the water is your light? I am going to build a canopy I just am wondering how tall to make it.

Thanks.

Where can I find this pre-configured layout someone was talking about. I am interested in the 14 -20K.

Thank you guys.

I PM'd you my email. Let me know if you didn't get it.

I am in for one D120. When can we order them, and when could we expect them? Appreciate the leg work on this.

There is about 45 lbs of rock in there, plus another 10 in my sump.

My tank is still going strong, a think I have a bit of a high nutrient problem due to feeding heavily. I have cut down the feeding a bit and hope this will solve it.

Thank you. I might have to frag the frogspawn soon. It has been growing like a weed.

I moved the frogspawn a little and it seems to have helped.

Awesome. Thank you guys. I will have to try and find a spot for my frogspawn. It is rather big and seems to like where it is at. For some reason this one can be picky if it is in too high of flow.

My my clam is very close to a growing Frog Spawn and I think it got stung. Not sure if you can see it from the picture below, but I think the clam's mantel has been damaged a little from the frog spawn.

One question I have is why hasn't the clam moved away from the frog spawn? It moved closer over the last month or two, so why can't it just move away?

Also, can I just move the clam away from the frog spawn? I know they have a foot but I am not sure how to loosen the foot from the bottom of my tank (I'm guessing that is what it is footed to).

[ATTACH=CONFIG]13102[/ATTACH]

Thank you in advance for the help. I really love this clam and would hate for anything to happen to it.

Josh, that sounds interesting. I might just try it though. Thank you guys for the help.

Is it possible to drag these? I would love to get more colors for my nano.

That is awesome. Can you get them anywhere or is it kind of a hitch hiker thing?

Nice, that is what I suspected. But it is nice to have confirmation. Thank you guys.

Is this non-photosynthetic? Is there photosynthetic sponge?

So this is in my 9 gallon nano. I am guessing it is some kind of sponge. It does not show in the picture well but it is VERY bright. It almost looks like Highlighter colored.

Let me know if you have seen this before.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]13042[/ATTACH]

Here is my clown in her two anemonies. She Cannot make a decision.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]12922[/ATTACH]

Here is my clown in her two anemonies. She Cannot make a decision.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]12922[/ATTACH]

Just a quick pic I snapped tonight. Thought it looksed

[ATTACH=CONFIG]12911[/ATTACH]

Yeah my light spectrum is pretty blue, which comes out that way on camera. I like it.

I just wish my fish would have been out more. I think I might need to get a few chromis to livin' up the fish.

I am planning on making updates of this tank and my buddy's tank. I will post a link on here to the Youtube videos.

Thank you guys. I appreciate it.

Garrett, I had a feeling you were going to say something like that. lol. I will be in this weekend to snag a few things.

So I was messing around with a friend of mine who is a photographer and we decided to take some video of our reefs. This is the video I put together of my tank.

I am very new at video editing.

Zach, do it. You know you want a bigger tank. lol.

Share the love.