Beautiful tank. Very nice colours too. How long has this tank been running?
That's kind of a loaded and embarrassing question. I've had the tank up for 3 years now, lost everything when I upgraded to the 180 from my 75, everything. Began new with 400W MH and built it up again. Because of this and that I started losing interest and started to get lazy. Laziness turned into more laziness, and then down right apathy. I finally just stopped cleaning the glass and things just got horrible. It was a disaster.
The tank is in our room and my wife finally said, either make it nice or get rid of it. That was last January. I decided to go back to T5's because of heat issues and that kind of sparked my interest again.
Here is the tank Feb 27, 2010. First shots of the T5 lights and after cleaning and getting rid of coral skeletons.
March 6, 2010: Frag pack from shadowramy, ordered it from the corals for sale forum and acans from cherry corals. I'd never kept acans so I thought I'd give it a try:
March 13, 2010: Look what I did to my beautiful sebae anemone, shameful. You can go back a page and see what she looks like now, it's embarrassing what I did.
March 16, 2010: I ordered 4 aquacultured mini colonies from DFS and my buddy, ataylo13 who took all the nice pictures, gave me back my red ink table which outgrew his tank. That coral is unstoppable.
April 14, 2010: Things are settling in, bought some local frags at a swap and tank is doing well. Look at the pink bubble tip anemones on the left of the picture. They are making a come back but still very pale.
June 12 2010: I bought a huge green slimer from a guy, it was yellow when I got it but green now. The frags and corals are starting to take off, the anemones doing much better.