50 Gallon Shallow Reef

[Jolleyreefs]

I thought I would finally dive in and create a thread for my Reef. It's been running for almost 5 years and has moved 3 times from Knoxville to Charlotte to Key West. Each move resulted in a mini cycle but luckily I haven't lost anything during any of the moves.

Specs:
36x24x13 rimless DSA aquarium
18 Gallon sump
SCA skimmer
Gen 1 Ecotech Radion x 2
Jebao wavemaker
Quiet one 4000 return

Inhabitants:
Snowflake Clownfish
Pygmy Angelfish
Neon Goby
Fire Shrimp
Peppermint Shrimp
Various hermits
Emerald Crab
Astrea, Cerith, and Fancy Nerite snails

Coral:
Various Zoanthids and palys
Green Slimer
Blue Cali Tort
Acro valida
Mystic Sunset Monti
Green Digitata
Green Pocillipora
Duncans
Fox coral
Branching hammer
Green Sinularia
Sun Corals
War coral
Gum ball chalice
St. Thomas shrooms
Various shrooms
Lucky Charms favia
Trumpet corals
Pulsing Xenia
Rainbow bubble tip anemone
Blastomussa
Mint pavona

Maintenance:
10 Gallon water change a week
Clean skimmer each week
Toss excess sump macro weekly
Top off a Gallon daily

My First Trial Video is:


Pics to come!

 

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[markalot]

Very nice, I look forward to seeing updates.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Cool! Enjoying the videos!

 

[Jolleyreefs]

Cool! Enjoying the videos!

Thanks! Just wish they were in HD on the thread.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Thanks! Just wish they were in HD on the thread.

Hmm... I'll look into what possibility there may be for that.

 

[Jolleyreefs]

My clownfish has been rubbing the bubble tip anemone which has upset my Duncan colony since it was her previous host. So it's been closed up lately because she can't decide if she is ready to live full time in the bubble tip.

 

[Jolleyreefs]

Fox Coral

Blue Cali Tort

 

[Tahoe61]

Fantastic tank, I love shallow tanks, just like tide pools at home.

 

[Jolleyreefs]

Fantastic tank, I love shallow tanks, just like tide pools at home.

I agree! Tuning the radions was a bit of a pain with it being such a shallow tank. I just want to eventually go longer.

 

[Jolleyreefs]

 

[trevorspencer94]

Very nice! I'm working on a 48L x 20W x 12H right now myself, ~50 gallons.

 

[Jolleyreefs]

Very nice! I'm working on a 48L x 20W x 12H right now myself, ~50 gallons.

Just saw your tank thread. That's going to be a cool build! Definitely following

 

[jp_75]

Woow! Great looking tank!
Btw How is that Angelfish with corals? Really want to get one but afraid it might do some damage....

 

[Jolleyreefs]

Woow! Great looking tank!
Btw How is that Angelfish with corals? Really want to get one but afraid it might do some damage....

I've had him/her for about 5 years and it's never touched any coral. A lot of people are surprised but I keep it well fed and it seems to ignore the polyps. I had a parrot fish for a while too until it got to big but it never ate anything in the tank either which was the real shocker. I quarantined it with some cheaper stuff to make sure it wouldn't eat anything and that helped me gauge compatibility.

 

[Jolleyreefs]

Worst part about moving a fish tank is the almost certain mini cycle. Starting to see a little algae popping up.

 

[Jolleyreefs]

I ended up putting together a new short video of my Reef. The little bit of algae really bothers me, but just did a 10g water change yesterday and cleaned all the pumps/skimmer.

 

[Jolleyreefs]

Fire shrimp made an appearance