Dimo's 120

[dimo]

Hello everyone. I'm rather new to reefing but not new to aquaria. I was a freshwater and freshwater planted guy for many years until I was finally convinced to give reefing a shot. This is my first crack at trying saltwater and it definitely has been a challenging and rewarding endeavor.

Here's my young 120 gallon tank. Setup back in early November, but here is how it looks as of today. Please forgive the photos. I really need to find a way to take better mobile photos. The blue lights are hard to work with.

 

[dbl]

Well first, an official welcome to R2R and to the salty side. For your first reef tank, I'll say you are off to a great start - it looks great. Congrats. Looking forward to watching this one mature.

 

[Rookie_reefer_420]

Awesome set up!!! Very clean and modern looking. What’s your plans on fish and coral stocking?

 

[dimo]

Thanks. It's the first thing people see when they coming into my home. Aesthetics are very important to my wife and myself. It took us like 2 weeks just to find the right ATO disguise lol.

For fish I have 2 blue/green chromis, a pair of clowns, a yellow tank, a one spot foxface, a bicolor dotty back, a flame hawkfish and various snails. Not sure yet what comes next.

For corals it will be a mix thank. Right now a have 2 small sps frags, a green stylophora, and an acropora of some kind. For LPS I have a small duncan colony and aussie gold torch, two candy cane frags and an acan frag. My softies are some gsp, a red mushroom and armor of god zoa/paly.

 

[Rookie_reefer_420]

Thanks. It's the first thing people see when they coming into my home. Aesthetics are very important to my wife and myself. It took us like 2 weeks just to find the right ATO disguise lol.

For fish I have 2 blue/green chromis, a pair of clowns, a yellow tank, a one spot foxface, a bicolor dotty back, a flame hawkfish and various snails. Not sure yet what comes next.

For corals it will be a mix thank. Right now a have 2 small sps frags, a green stylophora, and an acropora of some kind. For LPS I have a small duncan colony and aussie gold torch, two candy cane frags and an acan frag. My softies are some gsp, a red mushroom and armor of god zoa/paly.

Sounds like a great start and aesthetics are extremely important as my old lady wasn’t going to let me put a tank in our living room without it being pleasing to the eye. Shoot we tore down a wall and opened our living room up and designed our entire living space with the tank in mind. Following along!!

 

[dimo]

Today the ATO bucket got an upgrade. Out with the 5G bucket and in with the 10G mini brute. Got some funny looks at Lowe’s walking out with a baby trash can lol. This should get me around a week before refills.

A hollow round end table thing we found at Home Goods for perfect concealment.

 

[dimo]

Been a long time since I updated this thread. Here is a shot of my tank just 2 weeks shy of 2 years old. I'm not a massive coral collector but I do take care of the select few I liked enough to aquire. The gold torch being on my favorites. It's mesmerizing to watch it flowing in the tank.

 

[dbl]

Thanks for the update. The tank is maturing nicely...congratulations.