My Solana tank

El Camaron · Jun 8, 2009

This is my little piece of reef, has been up for about 7 months now.

lighted by TEK 24" fixture
stock skimmer that i modded ( performs well)
bag of chemipure
JBJ ato
about 50 LBS of live rock
30 LBS of live sand
lots of eye candy

revhtree · Jun 8, 2009

And a very nice piece of reef you have there!

Suppressivefire · Jun 8, 2009

looks great!

El Camaron · Jun 8, 2009

thank you.

El Camaron · Jun 8, 2009

few more pics.

revhtree · Jun 8, 2009

Great taste in coral and fish!

El Camaron · Jun 9, 2009

thanks revhtree, that catalina goby is one of my favorites, really colorfull.

revhtree · Jun 9, 2009

How long have you had it and what temp is your tank? I love those little guys!

El Camaron · Jun 9, 2009

i have had it for over 4 months, got it for 11 dollars at a LFS and thought it was a great deal. After it was already in my tank i read about it. My temps are constantly at 79 % and he seems fine since day one.

Nano-Newb1983 · Jun 9, 2009

very nice, sooo clean and colorful

El Camaron · Jun 11, 2009

thank you nano newb.

SaraB · Jun 11, 2009

Very nice! You have a whole lot of nice corals packed in there! Can't wait to see the growth progress!

underwaterfirefighter · Jun 11, 2009

Great Job!

We just set up a Solana last weekend. Yours looks great. we can't wait to add livestock to ours. Hopefully it will look as good as yours:wink:

Dave and Lisa

El Camaron · Jun 11, 2009

thank you Sara, things have grown quite a bit in there, and i have changed a lot but things are looking good, not as packed as it used to be because i finally started placing frags where i want them to be.

Thank you Dave and lisa. Just be patient, and keep up on water changes, its not hard at all to do maintance on this tank which i think its one of the main reasons i like it so much. good luck with your set up and post pictures of your progress.

El Camaron · Jul 8, 2009

my newest addition thanks to pascific east aquaculture

underwaterfirefighter · Jul 8, 2009

El Camaron,
What type of mods did you do to your skimmer? Ours performs ok, but could use a little improvement.
Thanks,
Dave and Lisa

H@rry · Jul 8, 2009

That's a lot of nice looking frags that you have there. When they grow out a bit you're going to have to do a lot of pruning! Otherwise it will be sting city.

Hang on to this thread so you'll be ready to send me some of those frags! :burn_joss_stick:

El Camaron · Jul 8, 2009

underwaterfirefighter said:
El Camaron,
What type of mods did you do to your skimmer? Ours performs ok, but could use a little improvement.
Thanks,
Dave and Lisa

here are a few pictures of what i did, but basically i just did a mesh mod to the pump and drilled a few holes. The skimmer performs 10 times better, no reason to get another one for sure.