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

[Finding Emo]

wow nice tanks everyone

 

[mfinn]

blide

sweet ric garden

 

[Universal]

Amazing tanks everyone. After 2 years without a tank Im going to start one up again because of this thread cant wait!

 

[Leopard Man]

Here's mine at 6 months old:

 

[pete620]

29 gallon
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And the only fish

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[gflat65]

Finally got the upgrade done on my wife's 20L (now a 40B). New lights, too. The T5's pop.

 

[hobbysalty]

I like how it looks under those T5'S.

 

[crabbejoe]

Cool tank Pete! And REALLY cool frogfish! What do you feed him?

 

[maroun.c]

Can anyone Id this coral from EMG's tank, I see the same in Swimmers tank too.

 

[blide]

Looks like a Capenella.

 

[mfinn]

Yep it's a capnella. It is one of my favorites. Sometimes you can find them in the coolest green colors.

 

[Racing1]

THIS IS MY LOCAL SHOPS PARENT TANK THAT SHE FRAGS FROM

JANUARY 07

JUNE 07

OCTOBER 07

 

[pete620]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11746629#post11746629 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by crabbejoe
Cool tank Pete! And REALLY cool frogfish! What do you feed him?

Thanks, he gets all frozen food, and is fed about once a week. I try to vary it as much as possible, krill, silversides, shrimp, ect, all soaked in selcon. He recognizes me as the one who feeds him and "fishes' whenever I'm near the tank. I've had him about two years, and he is about three inches long.

 

[skydragon]

nice tank guys keep them comeing

 

[maxheadroom]

nice tank, Leopard Man.

 

[asnatlas]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11498289#post11498289 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mfinn
I started my 240 gallon glasscages tank in approx. 8/07
Here is one of the first pictures of after transferring most of the contents of a 180 over to the 240.

mfinn, your tank looks great after 5 months...

Do you do anything special to the tank, do you have a Kalk or CA reactor... What does your maintenance consist of ??

 

[PiXieCath]

Here is mine, a 125gal softies and clams dominated tank.

 

[mfinn]

asnatlas
thank-you.
That date is a typo, it should say 8/06. So that tank is a year and a half old now.

I don't add anything to my tank.
I just do 20% water changes every 2 weeks.
I have done just water changes to my tanks since the mid 90's.
I use to add chemicals and additives, but stopped for a while and didn't see any change in the corals ( soft corals ). But I did see a change for the better when I started doing good sized water changes on a consistant basis.

So water change, suck out the detritus in the sump and clean the skimmer every two weeks.

 

[crabbejoe]

Sweet tank Pixiecath! You've got a lot variety in there.

 

[PiXieCath]

Thanks crabbejoe! I really like softies. I've owned LPS and SPS in the past but I really prefer softies. They are not colorfull as hard coral, but I like their movement and their fast spread. My favorite are definitly the leathers. I own a lot of big one in my tank, so, I have to run carbon 24/7 to avoid chemical war. But that was so beautiful and relax...

When I talk about my tank with others reefer of my area, anyone don't seem to understand why I only have softies. It has a kind of prejudice about softies. Because they are easy to keep, a lot of people think that they are begginer corals and that when you get experience, you have to switch to hard coral...IMO, their is nothing beautiful than a field of softies!