My new 50g

[Riverfishgirl]

Just figured I'd post a few pics. I don't have many yet and there's not much in it yet because it was just set up. I took the stuff from my 20L and moved it in here. I figured I was gonna move the tank anyway (it was in a back room where it didn't get nearly enough attention or viewing) so I might as well just move everything to a bigger tank and use the smaller one for breeding copepods or something. Now I have my reef tank in my livingroom, yay!

It's a 36 x 18 x 17high acrylic drilled with a 30g sump and refugium. 384 watt CF Orbit strip. Right now there's just a normal cleaning crew and a blood red fire shrimp, some peppermint shrimp (they're gonna become feeders soon, no one told me they will potentially eat polyps and they have already started. Luckily all my colonies are big enough that they haven't done noticeable damage yet ), a skunk shrimp, sally lightfoot.
For polyps I have Anthelia sp., pulsing xenia, pink mushroom corals, several colonies of green stars, tree polyps, hammers, frogspawn. Just easy stuff. I don't want high maintanence right now, just pretty to look at. I also have a couple of featherdusters along with whatever is popping out on my rock. Several tiny brittle stars that came in with my rock too.

Dunno what I'm gonna do for fish yet. I know I'm gonna start with some kind of clown goby and then slowly add some more small fish peaceful fish.
Hopefully sometime in the future I'll have a lot more in it to take pics of

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[Emg]

NICE Rivergirl !

That bushy stuff in the middle back area looks like clavularia...nice start !! I like the way you've layed out the rock.

[Riverfishgirl]

Originally Posted by Emg

NICE Rivergirl !

That bushy stuff in the middle back area looks like clavularia...nice start !! I like the way you've layed out the rock.

Thanks.
The pink stuff could be clavularia, I wouldn't know, lol. It was sold to me originally as pulsing xenia, and I figured it just didn't pulse because it wasn't super happy (pet store tank was covered in red slime and they weren't maintaining it too good). Well, when I got it in my 20 long it went crazy and grew really big and I realized there was no way it was xenia. Then someone told me it was probably anthelia, which it did kind of look like.
Now that I look up clavularia though I'm guessing that's what it is since one site mentions it can suck all the way in and anthelia can't. Mine definately goes all the way in at night.

[forestal]

very nice tank... will be fun to watch mature