My 40 Gal. Hex Reef

[slurpeshark]

This is my first Salt Water tank. I've always had Freshwater but Bruno (Swissfish) convinced me to give it a try and now im hooked :O). Almost everything is from this board, so thank you, especially Swissfish and Ilikualot!

Its a 40 Gal. Hexagon, AquaC Remora Skimmer, HOB AquaClear converted to Fuge, 380W MH with Moonlights.

40lbs of Live Sand (Elangilo)
50+ lbs of Live Rock (Rollinghead, Lucubrator)
2 False Perc Clowns (David M)
Royal Gramma (Yolo_062004)
Six Line Wrasse (Vets Pets)
Cleaner Shrimp (Vets Pets)
Clean-up Crew (Brilliant Reef)

Corals:
Umbrella Mushroom? (Chanas4)
Green Ricordias (Yolo_062004)
PIF Zoos Green and Brown w/Orange centers(Dhuynh)
GSP (Ilikualot)
Orange Monti Cap (Ilikualot)
Brown Monti Cap (Ilikualot)
Purple Monti Cap (DaChrisDude)
Frogspawn (Ilikualot)
Neon Green Candy Cane (Swissfish)
Candy Cane (Ilikualot)
Devils Hand Leather (Ilikualot)
Colt Coral (Ilikualot)
Purple and Red Mushrooms (Swissfish)
Green Monti Cap (Swissfish)
Scroll (Swissfish)
Cup Coral (Swissfish)
Sinularia (Swissfish)
Anthelia (Swissfish)
Yellow Fiji Leather (Swissfish)
Neon Green Sarchophyton Leather (Therapy)
Toadstool Leather (Therapy)
Mini Carpet Anenome (SDFISHMAN)
Probably more that I am forgetting :O)



Full Tank Shot at 1 month (10/06):
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e243/slurpeshark/swtank-fulltankshot.jpghttp://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e243/slurpeshark/42Gal.HexTank.jpg


Full Tank Shot at 10 months (7/06)
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e243/slurpeshark/DSC01543.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e243/slurpeshark/swtank-right.jpg

[ilikualot]

your tank looks great. Now comes the waiting and watching it grow.

[reefermadness]

what kind of light you running?

[slurpeshark]

what kind of light you running?

Just 130w PC's till I can afford to upgrade

[Chanas4]

:-) I like, I like. Actually that shape tank looks good. Looks kind of like a canyon.

[slurpeshark]

Thanks, that mushroom you gave me is splitting into 3 :O)

[mikesquirrel]

Wow Mike! It looks really great!

[swissfish]

Looks good, but i have to give you some more corals since ilikualot gave you more than I did:D
I think the leather I gave you was a sinularia;)

[slurpeshark]

Aunt Sue... thanks! Ill swing by tomorrow PM me a time that works for you (am preferrably for me)

Bruno... I agree! :O)... Did you get the present I left you with Steph?

[swissfish]

Oh yeah that's why I wanted to PM you, thanks that thing is huge and my fish, corals and I say thank you.

[Chanas4]

Maybe you can stick them on different rocks, and grow three mushroom colonies. How do you like your Aqua C skimmer. I'm thinking about getting one when I get my 75.

[slurpeshark]

I like it, works great, pulls some really nasty brown crap out... and as long as I keep my hands out of the tank it doesnt kick back micro bubbles :O)

[Chanas4]

How did you convert your aquaclear to a fuge?

[slurpeshark]

How did you convert your aquaclear to a fuge?

The aqua clear comes with a divider to seperate the pump area from the filter media... i just took the filter media out, put in some cheatomorpha and glued a plastic divider piece from a breeder setup over the outflow portion to keep the cheato in... the plastic piece is basically just plastic with holes in it to allow water flow but but small enough to keep large pieces in. pretty simple...and it gives a little more water flow in the tank. it gets some light from my tank lights but it would do better if it had its own seperate light right over it. maybe ill do that later :O)

[DaChrisDude]

great start Mike! First tank looks nice! Keep it up!

[slurpeshark]

Thanks Chris, Nice meeting you the other day... wish I could have picked your brain a little more, maybe next time... what is that little yellow fish you have?