Tony's 25 gallon Reef

typicaltony · Apr 22, 2012

Here is my 25 gallon reef set up, been up and running for about a year now. Made by Ecoxotic and measures 18"x18"18".

Livestocks: Pair of breeding percs, blue tang, cleaner shrimp, and fuzzy dwarf lion.

Running stock skimmer in the back along with purigen, carbon, and chemi pure elite. Also has a make-shift refugium with mangroves.

~25lbs of BRS Pukanis & Tongan with 20lbs of Tropic Eden Reef-flakes.

Corals: Bubble-tip Anemones, Maxi-mini Anemones, Yumas, Zoanthids, Plates, Chalice, Acros...

Light: AquaticLife T5HO running 2x ATI blue+, 1x KZ Fiji Purple and 1x ATI Coral+

25 gallon Reef - YouTube

Sahin · Apr 22, 2012

Thats a very nice and mature tank.

What are you going to do with the SPS frag? Are you going to mount them below the large nem on the rockwork?

typicaltony · Apr 22, 2012

Sahin said:
Thats a very nice and mature tank.

What are you going to do with the SPS frag? Are you going to mount them below the large nem on the rockwork?

Thank you

I bought a newer and bigger tank, 45 gallon, which everything will go into as soon as i finish plumbing and set everything up. Used to be filled with all sorts of sps until that 'nem grew out of control and decided to split which is how that bottom left one came to be. I gave away most of my sps and kept a few small pieces.

typicaltony · Apr 22, 2012

Here are pics of the new tank

revhtree · Apr 22, 2012

Very nice Tony! The bubbles on that BTA are epic! HA!

Reef Breeders · Apr 22, 2012

Cool setup, I can't wait to see the 45 cube

typicaltony · Apr 22, 2012

revhtree said:
Very nice Tony! The bubbles on that BTA are epic! HA!

I knew you would like it haha

anemonekeeper said:
Cool setup, I can't wait to see the 45 cube

Thanks, just gotta find time to start plumbing and finish it up... can't wait either.

typicaltony · Apr 22, 2012

more anemone ****!

REEFKEEPER10 · Apr 22, 2012

Sweet pics of the nems.

revsgirl · Apr 23, 2012

Gorgeous!

Mike Cruz · May 1, 2012

YUMAS, SPS, ANENOMES, ZOAS, LPS... love the diversity!

Good luck with the contest!

typicaltony · Oct 31, 2013

Geez been awhile since I've updated this thread, this tank has been through a lot and seen it all. Just wanted to share a few new additions to the tank as well show off how it currently looks. Taken with a crappy cellphone so I apologize, hope you enjoy nonetheless.

Top down view

I have a thing for plates as you can see, my plate garden.

Gold cycloseris, green/blue lithophyllon, diaseris plate, rainbow plates, and my rainbow lobo.

2 new plates, both are supposed to be rainbow plates... hoping they acclimate well and color up real soon.

Rare Reef Omegas

Jason Fox Jack-O-Latern Leptoseris and Jason Fox green fungia (got it at the frag swap from the man himself)

My favorite orange/golden Lobo

Side view

^yes that is a blue tang in a 25 gallon tank, had him for a couple of years now since he was the size of a dime. As much as I have been wanting to give him away to someone with a bigger tank, the problem lies in catching him. Also I'm getting a bigger tank (90g) soon so he will go in there once it's done cycling.

Tank is a 25 gallon ecoxotic all-in-one (smaller version of the solona), lighting is by a Kessil A150W sky blue and flow is powered by an MP10wES.

Sahin · Oct 31, 2013

Looking good! Well done for keeping it going despite problems.

typicaltony · Nov 1, 2013

Thank you sir, I have had this tank since May of 2011 and its been through a lot! but overall I still love it.

typicaltony · Nov 25, 2013

Switched back to T5 over the weekend, the Kessil wasn't doing it for me anymore...

Current bulb combination is as followed.. 3 ATI blue+, 1 ATI Coral+, 1 KZ Fiji purple, and 1 ATI Aquablue Special.

That combo will be replaced by a new one as soon as the new bulbs arrive from Reefgeek... the new combo will be...

4 ATI blue+, 1 ATI Coral+ (or Geisseman Midday sun), and 1 ATI purple+

Might change out one of the blue+ for a pure actinic bulb since that might be a bit too much for the tank.

Sahin · Nov 25, 2013

typicaltony said:
Switched back to T5 over the weekend, the Kessil wasn't doing it for me anymore...

Current bulb combination is as followed.. 3 ATI blue+, 1 ATI Coral+, 1 KZ Fiji purple, and 1 ATI Aquablue Special.

That combo will be replaced by a new one as soon as the new bulbs arrive from Reefgeek... the new combo will be...

4 ATI blue+, 1 ATI Coral+ (or Geisseman Midday sun), and 1 ATI purple+

Might change out one of the blue+ for a pure actinic bulb since that might be a bit too much for the tank.

Looking good. Glad you left the dark side and joined the Jedi's :xd:

Seriously though, the Kessil is a good light, but until they sort out the spread on LED's they will always have the shadowing problem.

Anyway I bet the tank is a lot brighter now with the T5.

typicaltony · Nov 25, 2013

Sahin said:
Looking good. Glad you left the dark side and joined the Jedi's :xd:

Seriously though, the Kessil is a good light, but until they sort out the spread on LED's they will always have the shadowing problem.

Anyway I bet the tank is a lot brighter now with the T5.

The kessil is good but just growth-wise wasnt doing it for me, the colors and shimmer is great but thats all i guess.

the whole room is lit up now not just the tank haha.