Very nice!!!!Hi gang! everyone has nice tanks! I have two salt tanks, a 30 gal "biocube" which is strictly coral and one fish (at the moment) and a 60 gal seahorse tank with 15 gal sump.
Fresh water are certainly easier and cheaper to manage.
The bigger the salt tank, the easier to maintain water perimeters. But, everything costs so much more! I try to get my set up to balance out them selves and only need top offs or partial changes. But, you have to take it super slow. Certain corals can't be near each other, and certain fish can't be near each other or certain corals, certain invertebrates can be with certain corals, fish or each other... careful planning is needed, along with size considerations for everything. And then ... there are the pests........ like I just realized in posting this that my asternia (tiny star fish) problem was in the works before I got the sea horses......... lol, little bugger is sitting right below the horse in the first photo.. (greenish blob)
Heres the 30 gal - the corals have grown since this last photo..
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My coraline grows a little too well! (pink stuff) like a calcium based algae.
Seahorse tank is bare bottom for ease of cleaning - they have to have way more attention for care feeding and cleaning than a regular reef tank. I have 7 (4 male/3 female).
The pink light is to help encourage micro algae to grow in the sump. The sump has sand, rock and cleaning crews like the bristle worms I don't want in my small tank.
