Soft Coral Dominated Tanks... Let's See 'em

[Paul B]

I took a new picture

 

[JayinToronto]

Why do people say it's hard to have a mixed LPS SPS tank?

 

[reefsahoy]

Why do people say it's hard to have a mixed LPS SPS tank?

Because sps typically requires pristine clean nutrient poor water, and lps typically requires semi dirty, nutrient rich water. Its possible to keep both but it requires fine tuning of feeding and stripping the water clean.

 

[ziyaadb]

tagging

 

[joejoe1055]

love these tanks, think i will go the soft coral way with a couple of lps and maybe a clam
love the movement of the soft corals

 

[jdhuyvetter]

I'll play. 300 gallon tank, T-5's. Plumbed together with another 300 gallon stoney coral tank (in another room). This tank is all soft corals except for a couple of plate corals on the sand that seem to do better under T-5's and a suncoral in the bottom corner of the tank (because I actually feed this tank 4-5 times a week).

FTS

Mixed shrooms, palys, fans, etc

My oldest coral. Got this one as a single "finger" when I was in college (around 1990)

Big shroom and some palys I collected about 10 years ago (been fragged many, many times)

Middle of the tank

Most recent addition. Traded some freshwater plants for this one. Could be a weed!

Orange Ricordea seem to do extremely well in this tank

 

[Paul B]

Very nice, I love it. Nice and aged

 

[rodster]

My 40g Soft Coral Aquarium

My 40g Soft Coral Aquarium

 

[pugcrush]

Excellent thread & night looking tanks!

JDHUYVETTER, nice tank. Where did you get the palythoa grandis? Very nice pieces!

 

[jdhuyvetter]

A store called Reef's Edge in Davie Florida.

 

[jdhuyvetter]

A store called Reef's Edge in Davie Florida.

 

[Harriscli]

I took a new picture

Are those beer bottles? How did you prep them?

 

[jgsalwater]

 

[extra3d]

Ill play too.. heres my softy tank.. mmmm.. ok mixed :spin2: lights turned on 30min before the pic..

 

[gh0st]

Beautiful tank Rodster!

 

[Yanni]

this a few pics of my 2 70 gallon tanks.

 

[joejoe1055]

very nice yanni almost didn't see the skunk clown it blended in well in pic 3

 

[biecacka]

i always love to see your tank paul its nice and refreshing to see something so nice and so simply operated.
corey

 

[Yanni]

thanks you, the skunk is the old maid of the tank, shes about 7-8 years old. Here is a few more pics of my 70 cube and the colt from the 70 tall.

 

[Yanni]

Thank you but that is actually just a colt coral( a bit retracted cuz the day light was down for about an hour when the photo was taken) no feeding required on that one. The carnation that i do own i just keep in a high flow area and target feed some phytoplancton every few days.