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This forum was recommended by a friend, so here I am :).

Started my first reef tank a little over a year ago, but was into freshwater systems for the last thirty plus years.

The tanks I've currently got are two standard 29 gallon "nanos"
The first which is a little over a year old is a mixed reef sumpless system. It has a aquamaxx hob-1 skimmer and an AC110 filter running carbon, purigen and reef rubble .
Corals ; florida ric, yuma, 2 chalices, 2 blastos, 2 frogspawn, 2 hammers, blue dot mushroom, blue harry muchroom, green hairy mushroom, plating monti, purple porites, 2 palys, favia, platygyra.

Inverts, pom pom crabs, sexy shrimp, scarlet hermits, zebra hermit, blood red cleaner shrimp, feather duster, tube anemone, 4 rock flower anemone, 1 maxi mini anemone, 1 red mini carpet anemone, randalls pistol shrimp, porcelain anemone crab

fish; female sailfin molly, purple firefish, tailspot blenny.

The second 29 is going to be focused on a malu anemone and sps(mostly) .
Has a converted wet/dry filter with a built in skimmer
Currently it has some palys that I transferred over from my other tank(VDM, fruit loops, blue tubs, devils armor, utter chaos. a kind of people eater I can't remember which, purple poccillopora, ORA joe the coral acro.

Inverts; blue legged hermits, emerald crab, porcelain crab, Caribbean pistol shrimp, dwarf yellow feather duster, red mini carpet anemone(clone from the other tank)

fish ; pair of black photon Ocellaris, dusky yellow streak blenny.

The adventure continues I guess.


Adam
 
Not sure who your friend is but you should thank them. Welcome to Reef2reef. I am from New Hampshire I've been on quite a few local boards as well as a few international and this is by far the best. Awesome people great advice.
Your tank sound busy, mine are as well. Do you have any pics?
 
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Not sure who your friend is but you should thank them. Welcome to Reef2reef. I am from New Hampshire I've been on quite a few local boards as well as a few international and this is by far the best. Awesome people great advice.
Your tank sound busy, mine are as well. Do you have any pics?

I will :) We connected via Maineaquaria but he's on here as well. Tanks are far busier coralwise than I planned. People around here a generous with frags so I've kind of ended up with more than I had in mind originally. I had build threads going on RC and Maineaquaria but I'll see if I can dig up some picks......or maybe just take some new ones :)

I my beginning plan last year was just for a mostly invert mixed reef, but I quickly ran out of room and there were issues. Balancing light demands for softies/lps/sps/nems has proved a never ending challenge and then the sexy shrimp started killing my sps, hence the second 29 beside it for sps and a clown pair.

my original 29 is still overcrowded with frags so I've been starting to mull over a 180 lps dominated build and the original 29 would become a softie mostly. Really mostly a ric and rock flower garden with some softies mixed in.
 
I am just weak. I can't help myself. My Reef is very mixed with every kind you can think of. A lot of fish. A lot of corals. Probably more inverts than I should have. But I keep the water clean and my refugium keeps everything happy.Current pics are good enough no need to go hunting and less you would like to. :-)
 
Welcome to R2R!! Looking forward to pics as well, but I do have to ask about your username, haha. Is it in close relation to inebriatedhiker? :p
 
a pic. Not a great one and I should've cleaned the saltwater smudges off the glass before I snapped them but here it is.


Corals; Florida ric, yuma, superman mushroom, 2 different chalices, 2 different palys(sunny D's, some sort of toxic green one, purple porites, green plating monti, 2 kind of frogspawn, 2 kinds of hammer, red goni, 2 kinds of blasto, green hairy shroom, blue hairy shroom, green platygyra, favia, duncan, orange shroom, gsp(on the back glass), 2 acans.

Inverts; pom pom crab, blood red cleaner shrimp, zebra hermit, 4 rock flower anemone, maxi mini anemone, red mini anemone, tube anemone, porcelain anemone crab, sexy shrimp, randalls pistol shrimp, scarlet hermit. lettuce nudi, feather duster.

Fish; purple firefish, tailspot blenny, female sailfin molly
 
2nd tank. It's a bit blue this time of night for my camera phone to deal with.


corals; vdm, fruit loops, blue tubbs, devils armor, utter chaos, people eater of some type. red plating monti, purple poccilopora, monti spongodes, darth maul porites, rainbow monti on the back wall, ORA joe the coral acro

inverts; yellow dwarf feather duster, porcelain crab, Caribbean pistol shrimp, skunk cleaner shrimp, emerald crab, red mini anemone

fish; black photon clown pair, dusky streak blenny
 

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