30 gallon X-tall tank

[Bolivian Ram]

Here are some pics of my 30 gallon reef tank. :bounce3:

 

[Bolivian Ram]

System specs:

30 gallon sumpless aquarium 24"X12"X24"

HOB Bubble Magus skimmer NAC5e

30 pound of live rock

2-3 inches of sand

3 Koralia pumps

Aquatic Life 4 Bulb T5HO 24" light fixture

Live Stock:

Fish: Coral Beauty Angelfish, 2 Pajama Cardinalfish, 2 Occeleris Clownfish

Coral: Hammer Coral, Elegence Coral, 2 Plate coral, Red Zoanthids (Kedd reds), Eagle Eye Zoanthids (I think?), Green Star Polyps, Toadstool Leather Coral, Birdnest Coral

 

[Whysoserious]

Nice.. How old is the system?

 

[Bolivian Ram]

It's 2 years and 3 months old.

 

[Teage29]

That's a really nice tank. I have 4 fish that are similar to yours, the 2 clowns, one black one orange, and I have 2 orbiculate cardinals. My 5th fish is a purple firefish so thats different. Also I wondering what the big coral the clowns look like they are hosting is?

 

[Bolivian Ram]

Thank You.

The big coral is an Elegance Coral.

BTW are your Orbiculate Cardinals peaceful with eachother?

 

[terrypercula]

You can definitely tell that tank has been established a while. Nice set up.

 

[Teage29]

With each other yes, to other fish its hit or miss. When the Female has something to host she is better but if not anything in the tank could be a new target! My hand is always on that list. Lol.

 

[Teage29]

I thought you were talking about my clowns. Oops and ya they are, they will hang together for sometime things apart. The smaller one is "hosting" a bubble coral and that is really cool to see. My clowns though pick on the smaller one sadly sometimes like right after feeding.

 

[Bolivian Ram]

I thought you were talking about my clowns. Oops and ya they are, they will hang together for sometime things apart. The smaller one is "hosting" a bubble coral and that is really cool to see. My clowns though pick on the smaller one sadly sometimes like right after feeding.

Clowns can be nasty especially with fish like cardinals that don't attack back in retaliation or are slow. I have my tank set up so that the clowns will stay at the corner of the tank unless it's feeding time. When my Elegance was in the middle of the tank the clowns would attack the Cardinals and the Coral Beauty. Now that they have two glass panels and a rock they feel more secure and don't attack anyone anymore.

Cardinalfish are pushovers unfortunately :/

You can definitely tell that tank has been established a while. Nice set up.

Thanks. When I first set it up the corals were pretty small. They grew nicely. May need to upgrade soon though.