My lil reef

Rick.45cal · Mar 8, 2020

crusso1993 said:
I'm fairly sure that if your glass blowing skills come close to your reefkeeping skills you'll be on easy street in no time!

Thank you! I have a history of being very adept at picking up highly technical skills extremely fast so it will be an interesting experience. Glass is one of those mediums that’s extremely challenging and ultra frustrating so I know I’m really in for probably the toughest journey in my life, and I’m ok with that. I might have to climb Mt Everest or K12 to get there!

JNelsonCo · Mar 9, 2020

Thank I you for sharing. I’m new to R2R and to reefing and your thread was fun to read.

Rick.45cal · Mar 10, 2020

JNelsonCo said:
Thank I you for sharing. I’m new to R2R and to reefing and your thread was fun to read.

Welcome to Reef 2 Reef and I’m glad you found my thread enjoyable. Hopefully I can keep up the momentum

n21benson · Mar 12, 2020

Rick.45cal said:

That coralline is amazing!

Beautiful tank, well done!

Rick.45cal · Mar 12, 2020

n21benson said:
That coralline is amazing!

Beautiful tank, well done!

Thank you so much

Shawn_epicurious · Mar 13, 2020

Rick.45cal said:
Current Full Tank shot: Aug 18, 2019

Wow!

....just... wow! Really, really nice!

Rick.45cal · Mar 13, 2020

Shawn_epicurious said:
Wow!

....just... wow! Really, really nice!

Thank you Shawn!

Rick.45cal · Mar 13, 2020

drawman · Mar 14, 2020

Rick what light are you using now? Can't say I recognize it.

Rick.45cal · Mar 14, 2020

drawman said:
Rick what light are you using now? Can't say I recognize it.

It’s a 60” ATI powermodule

. I love it

GoVols · Mar 17, 2020

Rick.45cal said:

Amazing!!, Rick

Rick.45cal · Mar 17, 2020

GoVols said:
Amazing!!, Rick

Thank you Freddie!

Brad Miller · Mar 22, 2020

Rick,
do you have any snails and hermit crabs at all n your tank ?

Rick.45cal · Mar 24, 2020

Brad Miller said:
Rick,
do you have any snails and hermit crabs at all n your tank ?

Yes I have a bunch of Astrea snails and scarlet hermit crabs! The Astreas are constantly breeding so there are bunches of them. There’s also a halloween hermit in there. (there’s a few emerald crabs in there right now trying to clean up some bubble algae that’s growing too)

Brad Miller · Mar 24, 2020

I’ve always got the packages from reef cleaners with all the other type snails for diatoms and cyno, ect...and never really been happy with them for hair algae and the glass.
I’ll try the Astrea snails now, thanks

Rick.45cal · Mar 24, 2020

Brad Miller said:
I’ve always got the packages from reef cleaners with all the other type snails for diatoms and cyno, ect...and never really been happy with them for hair algae and the glass.
I’ll try the Astrea snails now, thanks

I’ve tried a bunch of different snails too and for some reason Astrea snails always seem to do the best for me, they also seem to outlast all the others. These have had several generations at least in my tank, so they’ve been the best bang for the buck too. They’ve been very hard workers.