Greenmako's 110g A Texas Reef Exposed

[Greenmako]

Done having kids, now back into reefing!

My wife and I tried to get back in over a year ago but had a DSA tank crack after only a short time with water in it, after a long time trying to get a replacement tank we ended up buying a new tank from another manufacturer.

This is also the first time that we will be running a reef without metal halides and vho's, instead we will be running two Radion's.

March 7th new tank arrives and we get it setup with the help of my friend John.

My wife then got to aqua scape

Tank starts to cycle

Once tank cycled we started adding fish

The tank we ordered only came with a steel stand as we wanted to have something a little modern but rustic. We built the doors for the tank ourselves so that they would be flush as possible between the steel frame.

We started slowly adding coral. Below are some shots of what corals we have thus far. These photos are my first attempt at shooting under LED's. I don't have the white balance dialed in yet but will eventually.

Meteor shower and a frag from my old tank

Pretty Scoly

Ric

 

[Greenmako]

Hungry

porcelain crabs

Actinic shots below

 

[Tahoe61]

Wow, that turned out very nice.

 

[Greenmako]

Thanks, its still a young tank but look forward to watching it grow

 

[Greenmako]

Tank has had its ups and downs but is starting to get into its groove.

 

[Greenmako]

 

[TexasTodd]

Coming along nicely Brian!

 

[Salty Swimmer]

Love the look. How long is the tank? How did you connect the DIY doors with the steel frame?

 

[Greenmako]

Love the look. How long is the tank? How did you connect the DIY doors with the steel frame?

Thanks, the tank is 60.5" long.

To attach the doors I used magnets that I got here: K&J Magnetics

I then just used a piece of wood on the back of the door and used the countersunk hole to screw it flush to the side

 

[jolt]

I feel like I saw some early shots of your tank on the local forum in Austin but had not seen these updates. Great progress, and I really like the stand!

 

[Greenmako]

I feel like I saw some early shots of your tank on the local forum in Austin but had not seen these updates. Great progress, and I really like the stand!

Thanks, its had its ups and downs but is on track now. This is the first tank I've run with completely dead rock from start and I feel that it greatly slowed progress. My tank didn't really start looking better till I got some rock pieces from an established reef tank.